Marine Le Pen advocates a strategic rapprochement between NATO and Russia after the war

Published on: 04/13/2022 – 17:16 RN candidate Marine Le Pen unveiled her diplomatic project for France on Wednesday. She pleaded for a strategic rapprochement between NATO and Russia “as soon as the Russian-Ukrainian war is over”, for the end of joint armament programs with Germany and assured that she would not leave the global climate agreement. In “the interest of France and Europe”, the candidate of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen, pleaded, Wednesday, April 13, for a strategic rapprochement between NATO and Russia, “as soon as the Russian war -Ukrainian will be completed and will have been settled by a peace treaty”, during the presentation of its diplomatic project in Paris.”It is the interest of France and Europe, but also I believe of the United States who have (…) no interest in seeing the emergence of a close Sino-Russian union”, estimated the far-right presidential candidate, contrary to the current French position. A position of balance between the Russia and the United States? Marine Le Pen does not want “submission to Moscow” or “follow-up to the Biden administration”, particularly in the Asia and Oceania region, she said. extreme right, which had been received by Vladimir Putin during the presidential campaign of 2017, is regularly accused by his opponents of acc anointings with Russian power. His press conference was briefly interrupted by a left-wing group accusing him of his “complacency” with Vladimir Putin. On Russia, “the trial against me is particularly unfair”, “I only defended the interests of France”, she said on Wednesday, claiming “similarities” with Emmanuel Macron, when he received the Russian president in France. 04:57 “Reserved” on the delivery of arms to UkraineOn April 4, Marine Le Pen spoke of “war crimes” in Ukraine after the discovery of hundreds of civilian bodies in the kyiv region, particularly in Boutcha . At the end of March, the RN candidate refused to call Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” because “we do not negotiate peace by insulting one of the two parties”. In favor of the transmission of “information” to Ukrainians, she is “more reserved on the direct delivery of weapons”, because “the line between aid and co-belligerence is thin”, she estimated, while she made, there is little, a distinction between light and heavy weapons . She remains hostile to economic sanctions against Moscow, in the name of protecting the purchasing power of the French. Marine Le Pen has also declared that she would put an end to all joint armament programs with Germany if she was elected President of the French Republic on April 24. The National Rally candidate considered that Germany represented the antithesis of France’s strategic posture, and promised to renounce in particular the tank and combat aircraft projects future developed with Berlin.Enlarged UN Security CouncilMarine Le Pen has also announced that she wants to revive the idea of ​​increasing the number of permanent members of the UN Security Council if she is elected, to give it back its ” legitimacy””To restore some legitimacy to the Security Council, I will relaunch the idea of ​​expanding the list of its permanent members”, she said during a press conference, where she presented her program foreign policy if she had to access the Élysée. World War. The Security Council has 15 members. Five – China, the United States, France, the United Kingdom and Russia – are permanent members, with veto power. The 10 others are elected by the General Assembly for two years. Finally, Marine Le Pen assured that she would “not leave the Paris agreement” on the climate if she is elected on April 24, stressing however that the climate crisis “does not constitute the priority” of its foreign policy. civilian nuclear power,” she said. With AFP and Reuters