A few doses of mosquito spray were sprayed. Walking shoes on his feet and shirt without tie, Emmanuel Macron sinks into the rainforest. In this national park of Papua New Guinea, where several tribes welcome him this Friday, he pledges to "help" this heavyweight of the South Pacific to "preserve" its forests and oceans. "There is no planet B," he insists in English, in front of a banner honoring "His Excellency Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron". A pompous sign of recognition from the leaders, who have never officially welcomed a European head of state here.
In this strategic region, Emmanuel Macron tried to strengthen his environmental diplomacy, on the fourth and last day of his trip to Oceania. This "climate cooperation" appears to him as one of the levers of the "re-engagement" of the France in the area. The operation should enable him to embody a "third way" between China and the United States...
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