Paris and London will not let Russian President Vladimir Putin “rewrite the principles of international relations” and prevent him from “achieving his goals” in Ukraine, the French and British foreign ministers vowed in a joint article.

“France and Britain will not let him achieve his goals. Together with our allies, we will make all the necessary efforts so that Ukraine is in the best possible position to achieve a just and lasting peace,” they assure Jean-Noel Barot and David Lamy in the text published this evening in its electronic edition by the French newspaper Le Figaro.

The Russian president is trying to “rewrite the principles of international relations by returning to the law of the strongest and abolishing the security architecture that ensured peace for generations”, they complain.

But, “the war in Ukraine goes beyond the borders of Europe, the whole world is affected by this attempt to ‘putinize'”, observe the two ministers, who promise to fight “relentlessly this campaign”.

“No just and lasting peace can be achieved through violence or (military) power,” they point out, referring mainly to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Israeli military operations in Lebanon.

Against this “fragmentation of the world”, the two allies say they are proposing a “coherent alternative”, “based on technological progress, international law and multilateral action”.