{"id":55413,"date":"2025-08-09T17:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T17:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/55413\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T17:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T17:40:08","slug":"vance-and-lammy-host-european-us-ukrainian-officials-to-talk-ceasefire-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/55413\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance and Lammy host European, US, Ukrainian officials to talk ceasefire \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier Saturday, Starmer said in the same statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to a summary of that call, the two leaders agreed that the meeting taking place on Saturday in Kent would be a \u201cvital forum to discuss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/ukraine-and-europe-counter-putins-cease-fire-proposal-6a16133c?mod=hp_lead_pos1\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/ukraine-and-europe-counter-putins-cease-fire-proposal-6a16133c?mod=hp_lead_pos1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">progress towards securing<\/a> a just and lasting peace\u201d in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen \u201chas been in contact with EU leaders in preparation of the meeting\u201d and will \u201cremain in regular contact with them also on the outcomes of the meeting,\u201d Commission spokesperson Anitta Hipper said in an emailed statement. <\/p>\n<p>Germany will attend the gathering on an \u201cadvisory level,\u201d a person familiar with the matter told POLITICO. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron said Saturday evening that he had spoken with Zelenskyy, as well as Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. \u201cWe remain determined to support Ukraine, working in a spirit of unity and building on the work undertaken within the framework of the Coalition of the Willing,\u201d Macron said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EmmanuelMacron\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EmmanuelMacron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">post on X<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cUkraine\u2019s future <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EmmanuelMacron\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EmmanuelMacron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">cannot be decided without the Ukrainians<\/a>, who have been fighting for their freedom and security for over three years now. Europeans will also necessarily be part of the solution, as their own security is at stake,\u201d Macron said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier Saturday, Starmer said in the same&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[625,627,309,3083,19605,59,30297,145,57,58,15025,420,2363,50,154,1351,30298,30299,56,157,54,158,55,2988,159,160,636,161],"class_list":["post-55413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-british-politics","tag-david-lammy","tag-england","tag-eu-commission","tag-european-politics","tag-gb","tag-german-politics","tag-germany","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-jd-vance","tag-keir-starmer","tag-negotiations","tag-news","tag-russia","tag-security","tag-transatlantic-relations","tag-u-s-politics","tag-uk","tag-ukraine","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}