The French leader’s initiative for negotiations on Ukraine “hasn’t gone down well in Washington,” sources told the agency
The White House is “annoyed” by French President Emmanuel Macron’s unilateral attempt to initiate diplomatic negotiations on the Russia-Ukraine conflict with mediation by China, sources have told Bloomberg.
According to people familiar with the Biden administration’s thinking on the issue, the recent move by the French leader “hasn’t gone down well in Washington,” the agency reported on Sunday.
The sources claimed that “the White House was annoyed by what they see as Macron freelancing on a delicate diplomatic issue without consulting with allies.”
The people quoted by Bloomberg also said they did not believe in the success of the French president’s initiative, pointing out that he had proposed other peace plans during the conflict, but later backtracked on them.
They claimed it was “clear” that…