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France has canceled a security conference with Britain following the submarine deal

After returning ambassadors from the US and Australia, Paris also canceled the defense minister's visit to London despite Johnson trying to reassure: "Love France". Biden and Macron will talk in the coming days, North Korea warns of nuclear arms race

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In the video: Anthony Blinken talks about the submarine deal with Australia (Photo: Reuters)

France has canceled a planned meeting between its defense ministers and Britain, following outrage over the security agreement the kingdom signed with the United States and Australia last week, officials said last night (Sunday). Paris is furious at the new agreement, known as AUKUS, because it led to the cancellation of a major submarine deal between it and Canberra that was signed in 2016 and its cost is estimated at 27 billion euros. Instead, Washington London will help Australia build new nuclear-powered submarines.

Lord Ricketts, the former British ambassador to Paris who was to lead the talks, confirmed that the meeting between French Defense Minister Florence Perley and colleague Ben Wallace in London, scheduled for later this week, was "postponed to a later date".

France accuses the three countries - two of them members of the NATO alliance - of concealing information and lying. Compare the policies of US President Joe Biden that of his predecessor, Donald Trump, but even at the time of the last Paris did not return its ambassador from Washington as it did over the weekend - the first time in 240 years of relations with the United States.

spokesman for the French government said that President Emanuel Macron and Biden are expected to discuss the crisis in the coming days, at the request of the White House.The US administration has tried to lower the flames since the outbreak of the crisis which casts doubt on Biden's efforts to form a unified Western front in the face of threats from China and Russia.

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Macron on a submarine tour of the Port of Sydney, 2018 (Photo: GettyImages, LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP)

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tried to appease France and said she had no reason to worry about the agreement. Johnson, who spoke during his flight to New York ahead of the UN General Assembly, said relations with France were "great". Ours to France is permanent. "Johnson added that the new alliance is" not a zero sum "and should not disqualify anyone." No one should worry about it, certainly not our friends from France. "The

new British Foreign Secretary, Liz Trass, Johnson to New York and she published an article defending the agreement with Australia and the United States, she wrote in the Sunday Times that the agreement shows that Britain is prepared to be "tough" when it comes to defending its interests, and that it has the potential to create hundreds of new jobs.

Foreign Secretary James Calverley told the BBC that "all bilateral relations are going through periods of tension", but added that "I have no doubt that eventually our relations with France will survive".

He said the agreement with Australia and the United States, signed in the wake of China's intensification in the Pacific and Southeast Asia, was intended to "strengthen and deepen" security relations between the old partnerships and support high-tech and technology companies in the UK.

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Johnson in New York, yesterday (Photo: Reuters)

In Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has dismissed allegations that his country will lie to France and said it should have been aware of its intention to cancel the submarine deal. Australia will become only the seventh country to own nuclear-powered submarines, although it has stressed that it does not intend to acquire nuclear weapons.

"Ultimately, the decision was around whether the submarines being built, at a high price for the Australian public, would do the job. Our strategic decision, based on the best intelligence and security advice, was that they were not," Morrison said yesterday, taking off for the United States, where he would meet. With Biden in the White House along with the leaders of India and Japan. Together they are referred to as the "Square", a group of countries trying to work together to narrow China's steps.

Not only France warned of the consequences of the New Testament, but also China and North Korea. Beijing said after the signing of the agreement that the three countries are behaving like in the Cold War, and Pyongyang warned against "A nuclear arms race. "

"These are highly undesirable and dangerous measures, which have improved the strategic balance in the Asia-Pacific region," said a source in the North Korean Foreign Ministry, quoted by the official news agency.

In recent days, the isolated communist state has conducted experiments with various missiles, in the shadow of the stalemate in nuclear talks with the United States.

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