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U.S. Ambassador to the United States Antony Blinken is set to travel to Paris next week as part of Washington’s attempts to forge a ties with France after being removed from the new treaty and losing its maritime partnership with Australia.
Biden’s management is trying to do just that to repay Fury of France after the US, UK and Australia – known as the Aukus – last month announced a new nuclear deal, which led to the President’s resignation. Emmanuel Macron that remember his ambassadors to Washington and Canberra last month.
Karen Donfried, the United States’ s recent assistant secretary for Europe and Eurasia, says next week’s meetings in Paris are “a dedicated part of the deep-rooted dialogue”.
“We recognize that this will take time, and will work hard, and will need to be demonstrated, not only in words, but also in the commitment of our French colleagues at any level, in this important work,” he told reporters ahead of the trip.
“I don’t think there is a silver bullet, based on how we work to develop our relations with the French going forward,” he said, adding that there was a “need for better and more open dialogue between allies”.
French officials insist they were outraged not only by losing the deal to supply ships to Australia, but also by the fact that France was left in the dark over negotiations on the treaty. The agreement damaged trust between Nato’s allies as the US sought to link to China’s counter-terrorism network.
U.S. officials including Blinken failed to respond promptly to requests from French officials to speak before announcing the agreement on September 15, according to officials who spoke on peace.
In the wake of the legal crisis, United States President Joe Biden led a series of angry protests in France. He spoke directly to Macron one week after the announcement on September 15, when Blinken met his French counterpart, Jean-Yves Le Drian.
The French ambassador to the United States, Philippe Etienne, has returned to Washington this week, and met with US security adviser Jake Sullivan at the White House on Thursday to “begin an in-depth discussion on a number of issues,” according to a spokesman for the National Security Council.
Biden and Macron are also scheduled to meet in late October in Europe.
Blinken, who will lead a number of US envoys to Paris including climate change, trade, finance and energy, will also discuss how the US will “work with partners to strengthen and enhance the ambitious US-EU relationship,” he said. Donfried.
Blinken is expected to discuss the United States’ response to France’s existing relations with the Indo-Pacific region, the fight against terrorism in the Sahel, climate change, economic recovery from the Covid-19 epidemic and other ways to work with US allies. “To deal with global problems and opportunities”.