The logo of the Russian Olympic Committee is seen during the annual Olympic meeting at its headquarters in Moscow on March 14, 2024.
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French President Emmanuel Macron said Russia will be required to abide by Ukraine’s ceasefire during the Paris Olympics in an interview in Paris that was broadcast by Ukrainian television and posted by a Ukrainian journalist on his YouTube channel on Saturday.
“The demand for a ceasefire during the Olympics. They (the Russians) have to do it. This is what happens all the time,” the interviewer said through a translator.
“We will make demands,” Macron said in French, before a voiceover replied in Ukrainian: “Yes, we will make demands.”
“The rules of the host country are in sync with the Olympic movement,” Macron was quoted as saying by a translator. “This is a message of peace. We will also follow the decisions of the Olympic Committee.”
The International Olympic Committee condemned Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and said the Russian government violated the Olympic Truce Agreement aimed at using the power of sports to promote peace and dialogue.
Russia’s Olympic Committee will not boycott this year’s Paris Olympics despite IOC restrictions on athletes as punishment for invading Ukraine, its president said on Thursday.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday that she hoped Russians and Belarusians “would not come.” After the invasion, Russians and Belarusians were initially banned from international competitions, and Belarus was used as a staging ground for the invasion.
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