LONDON / Paris: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told France on Wednesday to get a grip and provide allies in the United States and Australia rest for one line about the trilateral nuclear submarine agreement which ripped apart French contracts.
New defense partnerships between the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia were announced last week and will provide Canberra access to nuclear-powered submarine technology.
France accused the President A.S.
Joe Biden stabbed him behind and acted like his predecessor Donald Trump after Australia wasted a defense contract with Paris for the purchase of conventional submarines.
Paris remembers its ambassadors from the United States and Australia, but have pareded England.
This has not been mentioned by London in public communication and officials personally said the role of London was “smoke and mirror”.
Talking a day after he met Biden in Washington, Johnson told reporters: “I just think it’s time for some of our dear friends around the world to ‘Prenez UN grip’ about all this, ‘Donnez-Moi Un Break’, because this is on Basically it is an extraordinary step forward for global security.
“He translates the English phrase ‘getting the grip’ and ‘give me a break’ literally into French.
“It does not try to carry anyone, it is not hostility towards China, for example, is there to intensify the link and friendship between the three countries,” he said.
Anger comments tend to pamper Paris’s further.
Two diplomatic sources say there has been instructions to limit contact with the UK in the immediate period of time.
“‘Global Britain’, it seems, aimed at projects England throughout the world, while marginalizing Europe.
We cannot accept that,” said a French diplomatic source, referring to the slogan used by Johnson to describe British ambitions after Brexit.
The role of the UK in encouraging new partnerships seems to be greater than the estimated initially, officials said, with the agreement took forms at the peak of the G7 leader 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 that made Boris Johnson difficult to see why it would be a problem,” Nathalie Loiseau, former European Minister of France and members of the European Parliament, said on Twitter.
“This is all problems, however, when someone claims to want international order based on rules and relations based on trust.” Highlighting the sense of anger that was felt in Paris – and in the rare reaction of the Kind – Makron office firmly denied reports published on Wednesday in the British daily Telegraph who said the president was willing to surrender the UN security seat in the exchange of EU soldiers.
Both the French Foreign Ministry and the French Presidency are available for comments.
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