Australian submarine crisis: the battle at the heart of discussions at the UN – Franceinfo

Emmanuel Macron is due to speak by phone, in the coming days, with US President Joe Biden about the submarine crisis and the French contract broken with Australia, which prefers to turn to the Americans and the Kingdom. -United. Joe Biden spoke on Tuesday, September 21 at the podium of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York (United States). He recalled his attachment to diplomacy. “Nobody expected that Joe Biden, in a public way, in front of nearly 200 countries at the UN, to speak about this quarrel with France”, explains journalist Loïc de La Mornais, live from New York for 19/20.

Monday, September 20, Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, held a press conference in New York. “A minister who is still very angry, very hurt by this betrayal of a close ally of the United States, who has kept France in the shadows”, adds the journalist, who specifies that Jean-Yves Le Drian does not yet have a formal meeting planned with his American counterpart.