Macron spoke with NATO’s Stoltenberg

PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron spoke by phone to NATO’S Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Saturday ahead of his trip to Moscow next week to help defuse the crisis over Ukraine, the French presidency said.

The statement said Macron stressed during the call “the need to continue efforts to find through dialogue a de-escalation path” that respects the “fundamental principles of European security, the sovereignty of the states and the resulting rights”.