BERLIN, December 11. /TASS/. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has presented a proposal regarding territorial concessions for Ukraine as part of a plan to resolve the conflict during a telephone talk with US President Donald Trump, he said.
"We indeed had a very detailed conversation with President Trump yesterday afternoon. [President of France] Emmanuel Macron, [British Prime Minister] Keir Starmer and me. We discussed how this process will progress in the coming days. We offered to spend the weekend finalizing the documents together with the American government," Merz said at a joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
He said the conversation was "constructive."
"There is a proposal that Trump did not know about at the time of the conversation, because it had not yet been sent to the Americans. We presented it yesterday afternoon. The main question is what territorial concessions Ukraine is ready to make," the German Chancellor stressed, adding that the Ukrainian side must answer it. "We have made this clear to President Trump," Merz said.
"After yesterday's phone conversation with President Trump, I have a firm impression that he is ready to go down this road with us, because he knows that European interests also need to be heard out. We made that clear to him in yesterday's conversation. In this regard, it was a really constructive telephone conversation, during which the positions of both sides became clear and mutual respect was expressed."
