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Macron urges Israel to end strikes on targets not related to nuclear, ballistic programs, pushing for EU peace initiative
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
France's President Emmanuel Macron stands to attention near the 'Flamme du souvenir" (flame of memory) as he attends a ceremony marking the 85th anniversary of late French General Charles de Gaulle's World War II resistance call of June 18, 1940, at the Mont-Valerien memorial in Suresnes, outside Paris, on June 18, 2025. (Photo by Alain JOCARD / POOL / AFP)
French President Emmanuel Macron calls on Israel to “urgently end [strikes] which are increasingly targeting targets unrelated to Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile program,” the French Presidency says in a statement.
He is pushing along with European partners a proposal for a negotiated solution to the fighting between Israel and Iran, according to the Elysee.
At the end of a national security council meeting, Macron tells Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot to “prepare an initiative in this regard in the coming days, with close European partners, to propose a demanding negotiated settlement likely to end the conflict.”
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