https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-07/trump-meets-macron-at-elysee-palace-ahead-of-notre-dame-reopenPresident-elect Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron held a joint meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Paris on Saturday ahead of the reopening of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.
Macron had sought the meeting to try to initiate a discussion on ending the war in Ukraine, an official in Macron’s office said. The three leaders posed together for photographers at the Elysee Palace and then met privately.
Zelenskiy called their discussion “good and productive” in a social media post. “We all want this war to end as soon as possible and in a just way,” he added.
The session lasted about a half hour, according to Zelenskiy’s office.
The high-profile meeting in a foreign capital is an unusual step for a US presidential election winner still not in office. Incoming and outgoing US leaders traditionally hew to the idea that the country has only one president at a time, particularly in international affairs.
