US President Joe Bayden on National Security Jake Sullivan on Thursday, September 30, met with France’s ambassador Philippe Etienne, who returned to Washington after consulting in Paris, and discussed the creation of conditions for confidence between countries. This was reported by the official representative of the National Security Council (SNB) of the White House Emily Horn, reports TASS.
The meeting of the American leader’s adviser and the French ambassador held in the framework of the mutual agreements of the Presidents of the United States and France, which were achieved during a telephone conversation on September 22. Then Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed to “the beginning of a deep consultation process on a whole spectrum of strategic issues in order to create conditions for ensuring confidence and suggest specific measures to achieve common goals.”
Biden and Macron held telephone communications on September 22. The leaders of the two countries agreed to meet in Europe at the end of October 2021.
On September 16, the US authorities, Australia and the United Kingdom created the Aukus Alliance, which agreed to exchange military technologies with each other. In particular, it was about the help of Australia in the construction of its own submarines. Because of the new Agreement, Canberra terminated a major contract with Paris for the supply of submarine. It provoked an international scandal. In response, Paris for the first time in history recalled ambassadors from Washington and Canberra. France also opposed the continuation of the negotiations of the European Union with Australia on Free Trade.