Trump to Join Zelensky for G7 Working Session on Ukraine Peace Conditions

US President Donald Trump will take part in a G7 working session with President Volodymyr Zelensky in France on Tuesday, a senior administration official said.

“President Trump will participate in a working session with G7 leaders and President Zelensky of Ukraine,” the official told reporters on the customary condition of anonymity.

The G7 summit will take place in Evian on June 15-17 and kickstart with a leaders’ dinner.

Ukraine will be addressed during the first working session, attended by Zelensky, held the following day.

Europeans will be keen for the G7 to issue a united message of support for Ukraine. The US has stopped all bilateral military donations, with Europe doing the heavy lifting when it comes to military and financial assistance.

But Europe has mostly been shut out of peace negotiations, despite repeated calls by Zelensky for the continent to be more involved. A key point in Evian, the Elysée said earlier this week, “is to determine under what conditions the G7 partners can encourage negotiations between Ukraine and Russia”.

“It will be crucial to reach an agreement on the parameters or conditions of this dialogue, particularly on the issue of territory,” the French presidential palace said.

Lastly, Europe will want to stress that now is not the time to lift sanctions against Russia.

Another point on the agenda at the summit will be the situation in the Middle East and the security situation in the Strait of Hormuz.

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The leaders of Egypt, Qatar, and the UAE will take part in a luncheon with their G7 counterparts on the issue.

After the summit, Trump will have dinner at Versailles Palace on 17 June with French President Emmanuel Macron to mark the 250th anniversary of the independence of the US, the Elysée said on Saturday.

The palace on the outskirts of Paris is “a high place of Franco-American friendship where the treaty consecrating the independence of the United States was signed in 1783,” the statement also read.

See the original of this report by Eurctiv here.