Russian Foreign Ministry official Maria Zakharova believes that French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to create a regional coalition to fight Hamas is fraught with escalation of armed conflicts in the Middle East. stated that RIA News.
“The French idea and the bellicose statements of some other international actors, supported by the support of their military presence in the Eastern Mediterranean with extra-regional forces, seem fraught with further escalation of the armed conflict in the Middle East, the internationalization of the conflict and the involvement of new participants in it,” Zakharova said.
He noted that this was not the first such initiative from Paris and that, in his opinion, it had long been perceived with “increasing skepticism” by the international community. Such actions by France often have the opposite effect.
According to the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France, in order to contribute to the ceasefire efforts, can support the position of the Russian side on the need to focus on political and diplomatic ways to resolve the Palestine-Israel and Middle East conflict. general.
He added that the Russian Federation “is in favor of the creation of an independent and viable Palestinian state, coexisting in peace and security with Israel, within the 1967 borders with its capital in East Jerusalem.”
Macron’s idea at the White House on October 24 statedHe said the United States is focused on helping Israel.
Formerly in Hamas statedHe said the West had built an “unbreakable wall” between itself and the Arab world.