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Submarine crisis: French government awaits guarantees before resuming contact with Australia

2021-10-02T22:42:59.095Z


France is waiting to be assured of having a "substantive conversation" with Australia, before renewing contact at the highest level after the ...


France is waiting to be assured of having a "

substantive conversation

" with Australia, before reconnecting at the highest level after Canberra severed a mega-contract on submarines, said Tuesday. September 28 the Élysée.

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Since the announcement of the AUKUS alliance between the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom in the Indo-Pacific, which angered France, Emmanuel Macron has spoken with the American last week. Joe Biden and Briton Boris Johnson, but not with the Australian Prime Minister. "

The question is not to know

" if President Emmanuel Macron is "

available to speak

" with Scott Morrisson because "

he still is

", but it is a question of "

preparing this conversation in a very serious way

" so that it "

is of substance

", explained an adviser to the president. “

It will take place when the time comes,

” he said.

The Australian Prime Minister said last week that he tried unsuccessfully to reach Emmanuel Macron and admitted that he will have to be "

patient

" to reconnect with Paris.

The Élysée also indicated that the French ambassador to Australia, recalled to Paris, would return to Canberra "

on a date which remains to be determined

", while that in the United States is to join Washington on Wednesday.

"

Australia is an important partner country

" in the Indo-Pacific region, insisted the presidency, "

even if it has not behaved properly in this matter

".

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Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday morning that the AUKUS alliance did not change "

in any way the

Indo-Pacific

strategy of France

", which is "

a power regardless of any contract since we have a million compatriots who live in this region and more than 8000 soldiers who are deployed there

”.

Source: lefigaro

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