{"id":1646,"date":"2025-08-31T10:09:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T10:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2025-08-31T10:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T10:30:17","slug":"macron-says-putin-would-have-duped-trump-if-he-doesnt-commit-to-zelenskiy-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=1646","title":{"rendered":"Macron says Putin would have duped Trump if he doesn&#8217;t commit to Zelenskiy meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS (Reuters) -If Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn&#8217;t commit by Monday to meet Ukraine&#8217;s Volodymyr Zelenskiy, he would have duped U.S. President\u00a0Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If that doesn&#8217;t happen by Monday, the deadline set by President Trump, it means that once again President Putin played President Trump,&#8221; Macron said at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has threatened &#8220;consequences&#8221; if the Russian and Ukrainian leaders don&#8217;t meet.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskiy also recalled on Friday a statement by Trump that he would give Putin a week or two to agree on a bilateral meeting with the Ukrainian leader before potentially announcing new action against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two weeks will be on Monday. And we will remind everybody,&#8221; Zelenskiy said.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Michel RoseEditing by Ros Russell)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS (Reuters) -If Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn&#8217;t commit by Monday to meet Ukraine&#8217;s Volodymyr Zelenskiy, he would<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,51,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-russia","category-us"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}