Paris: France has said that soon remembers its ambassadors to the United States and Australia after Australia canceled the purchase of a Big French conventional submarine that supports nuclear ships built with US technology.
Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said in a written statement on Friday that France’s decision, at the request of President Emmanuel Macron, “justified by the extraordinary seriousness of the announcement” made by Australia and the United States.
He said the announcement Wednesday about the Australian submarine agreement with the US was “unacceptable behavior between allies and partners.” Earlier on Friday, the top French diplomat talked about “crisis” in relation to the US.
Diplomats, who speak anonymously in line with customary government practices, said that for Paris “this is a strategic question regarding the nature of the relationship between Europe and the United States about the Indo-Pacific strategy.” He will not speculate about the effect of the situation will have French relations with the US.
“There is a crisis,” he stressed.
Macron has not commented on this problem since the announcement of President Joe Biden about the strategic Indo-Pacific Alliance with Australia and England, leading France lost an agreement nearly $ 100 billion to build a diesel-electric submarine.
France has been pushed for several years for European strategies to increase economic, political and defense bonds in areas that stretch from India and China to Japan and New Zealand.
The EU launched this week the plan for the Indo-Pacific.
France’s diplomat said on Friday that Macron received a letter from Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Wednesday morning announced a decision to cancel the submarine agreement.
French officials then decided to reach the US government “to ask what was happening”, he said.
He added that the discussion with Washington occurred only two to three hours before the announcement of the Biden public.
Le Drian on Thursday stated “Total Incommehension” while traveling and criticizing Australia and the US.
“It really stabbed behind.
We built a trust relationship with Australia, and this belief was betrayed,” he said.
“This is not done between allies.” He also compared moving Biden to his predecessor, Donald Trump, under the doctrine of Trump ‘America’.
Paris has raised the problem of the Indo-Pacific strategy during a June 25 visit to Paris Secretary of the US State Antony Blinken, expressing the importance of its submarine program with Australia, said diplomats.
“We say that this is for our very important and important components in our Indo-Pacific strategies,” he said.
Blinken met with Macron during a visit.
French diplomats said Australia was never mentioned to France before His will to shift to a nuclear-powered submarine, including during the meeting between Macron and Morrison in Paris on June 15.