Paris: Furious for the Australian submarine agreement on Thursday (local time) canceled Gala, scheduled for Friday to celebrate relations with the United States.
US President Joe Biden Announcement about the agreement to help Australia using a nuclear-powered submarine caused France angrily to cancel Gala at their Washington embassy, ​​to protest what they called a rash and sudden policy decisions that resemble former President Donald Trump, who reported the New York Times (NYT).
An official confirmed the event to commemorate the “240-year anniversary of the battle of the battle”, which should take place on Friday night at the French Embassy and rise to the French Frigate in Baltimore, nothing will happen.
France’s top Naval officers, who have traveled to Washington for the event celebrating their naval assistance with American fighting for independence in 1781, will return to Paris earlier, report NYT.
Gala cancellation was a direct reflection of anger felt between French and diplomat after the submarine agreement, which was announced by Biden in the White House on Wednesday with Australian and British leaders joined virtually.
Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister of Foreign Affairs, in an interview with Radio FranceInfo, called the “unilateral, brutal, unpredictable decision” as Trump.
It followed the statement from him and Florence Parly, the Minister of the Armed Forces, called “American choice to exclude the Allies and European partners such as France” regrettable decisions “which” showed a lack of coherence, “Le Drian’s setback reflects the fact that France has its own agreement with Australia, concluded in 2016, for conventional submarines, lacks sophisticated technology.
The agreement of USD 66 billion is now dead, but a hard legal battle for the contract seems unavoidable.
“The knife behind,” said Le Drian about the decision of Australia Noted that Australia rejected an agreement for strategic partnerships involving “many technology transfers and contracts for the 50-year period accuse Pejab AT high hiding information about the agreement though repeatedly by French diplomats, who are suspicious there are more.
The level of French anger considering fierce cracks between Paris and Washington in 2003 for the Iraq war and involved language that was not seen since then reported that NYT.