LONDON / PARIS: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told France on Wednesday to get a handle and provide allies in the United States and Australia rest for successively about the trilateral nuclear submarine agreement which ripped apart a separate French contract.
New defense partnerships between England, the United States and Australia were announced last week and will provide Canberra access to nuclear-powered submarine technology.
France accused US President Joe Biden stabbed behind and acted like his predecessor Donald Trump after Australia disposed of defense contracts with Paris for the purchase of conventional submarines.
Paris remembers the ambassador from the United States and Australia, but has been harassed by England.
This is not mentioned by London in public communication and officials has personally said, the role of London is “smoke and mirror”.
Talking a day after he met Biden in Washington, Johnson told reporters: “I just thought that time for some of our beloved friends around the world for ‘Prenez Un Grip’ about all this, ‘Donnez-moi un-break’, because of this is a fundamental big step forward for global security.
” He translated the English phrase ‘getting a handle’ and ‘give me a break’ literally into French.
“This does not try to shoulder people outside, not hostile to China, for example, it is there to intensify the relationships and friendship between three countries,” he said.
Anger Comments tend to be further angry at Paris’.
Two diplomatic sources say there are instructions to boundary contacts with English in the short term.
“‘Global Britain’, it seems, aiming to project England throughout the world, while marving Europe.
We cannot accept it,” said one of the French diplomatic sources, referring to the slogan used by Johnson to describe British ambitions and Brexit.
The role of Britain in encouraging new partnerships seems to have been greater than what was estimated at first, officials said, with the form of taking agreements during the summit of the G7 leaders in Cornwall in June that President Emmanuel Macron was also present.
“It is true that it will return to the commitment made and the word he gave was something Boris Johnson found it difficult to see why it would be a problem,” Nathalie Loiseau, former European France Minister and members of the European Parliament, said on Twitter.
“This is the whole problem, however, when one claim wants international order based on rules and relationships based on trust.” Highlighting anger feeling in Paris – and in a rare reaction of the type – This Macron office firmly denied reports published Wednesday in the UK Daily Telegraph said the president was willing to give up the French chair in the UN Security Council in exchange for the establishment of the European Union’s army.
Both the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and French President are available for comments.
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