While US President Joe Biden is expected to call his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron later today, amid continuing tensions between the two sides against the backdrop of the security alliance and submarine deal initiated last week, Macron’s office he indicated that he expects “concrete steps” from the United States to restore confidence between the two countries. .
A source at the Elysée, as reported by the Al-Arabiya / Al-Hadath correspondent, said that the French president is waiting for this call, which comes at Biden’s request, to explain to quest’last because he chose to exclude a European ally from important talks on the Indo-Pacific region.
He also added that Macron expects the American side to recognize that the talks should have included Paris, which has created a trust issue that should draw lessons from it.
He explained that Paris is in waiting for an American commitment at the highest levels and within a specific deadline to commit to providing conditions that restore trust between the two parties through concrete measures and not only in words, and this concerns above all the strategic importance of France and the European commitment in the Indo-Pacific region.
submarine crisis
The French government spokesman, Gabriel Attal, had announced that there would be a phone call between the two presidents in on the open crisis between them for Australia’s termination of a contract for the purchase of French submarines.
At the end of a cabinet meeting, Atal said Macron and Biden will exchange “some clarifications” during the unscheduled phone call about the circumstances. in to which it was decided to issue the declaration of the security alliance between America and Great Britain and Australia.
Interestingly, since last Wednesday (September 15), tension has increased between the three countries (France, America and Australia) after the US president announced the formation of a new strategic alliance that included, alongside his country , Australia and Great Britain, in an initiative whose first fruit was to blow up a big deal concluded by Canberra with Paris: to buy French-made submarines.
The French capital described the cancellation of that deal as a backstabbing and betrayal, and summoned its ambassadors to Canberra and Washington.
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