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Submarine crisis: Blinken and Le Drian expected at a joint meeting, but no tête-à-tête planned

2021-09-22T06:23:03.625Z


The American and French foreign ministers are participating this Wednesday in a meeting with other powers at the UN during


The mood should be, at the very least, cold.

The American and French foreign ministers, Antony Blinken and Jean-Yves Le Drian, will meet this Wednesday at a meeting scheduled at the UN, during which they will be able to “exchange their views” on the financial crisis. - sailors who oppose them.

And that's it: no tête-à-tête has yet to be scheduled on this subject, causing a diplomatic break-up.

The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday evening in New York on the occasion of a traditional meeting with their counterparts from other permanent members of the Security Council and United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

"They will certainly be in the same room" (Editor's note, the Security Council chamber) and "will exchange their views on a number of things," an American diplomatic official said on Tuesday.

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The latter did not mention a bilateral meeting at this stage on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly which is being held this week in New York, without however excluding it definitively.

Monday, Jean-Yves Le Drian had only said that he would meet the American Secretary of State "in the corridors" of the UN.

Another meeting initially scheduled for this Wednesday also, between Antony Blinken, Jean-Yves Le Drian and their British and German counterparts, Liz Truss and Heiko Maas, has been canceled.

The US official raised agenda issues, but several diplomatic sources told AFP that the cancellation had been requested by Paris.

Emmanuel Macron still silent

France has recovered greatly since the announcement made in mid-September by Joe Biden of a new strategic alliance with Australia and the United Kingdom, which is torpedoing a mega-contract for French submarines in Canberra.

The President of the United States has asked for several days to speak on the phone with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, who said without further clarification that this interview would take place soon.

On Wednesday, instead of the canceled four-way meeting, Antony Blinken will meet with the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell.

Monday, after several days of loneliness on the international scene for France, Josep Borrell testified to the "solidarity" of the countries of the European Union with regard to Paris at the end of a ministerial meeting of the 27 member countries of the EU held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

Source: leparis

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