“Putin will not stop in Ukraine. All of Europe will be threatened and we will not allow that. The United States will be with Ukraine, with our allies, with France,” the US president stated, for his part.
The French president, Emmanuel Macronthanked his American counterpart, Joe Biden“the respect and loyalty” shown towards European allies for “the willingness to seek agreements, including those that are more complicated.”
“I thank you for being the president of the first world power that shows respect to Europeans,” Macron stressed at the Elysee Palace, during a statement to the press without questions after the working lunch between both leaders.
The two heads of state have made an effort to show clear harmony “with a common roadmap” in the conflicts in Ukraine and Gazaand also about the trade differences with China.
And in the process they have thus buried the diplomatic conflict between both nations in 2021when the US had stepped in to take a multimillion-dollar nuclear submarine contract with Australia, which broke a previous contract with France.
Biden, who in a few months disputes his re-election with Republican Donald Trump -a leader criticized in Europe for his isolationist tendency during his 2017-2021 mandate-, has placed emphasis on the fight in Ukraine against Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
“Putin will not stop in Ukraine. All of Europe will be threatened and we will not allow that. The United States will be with Ukraine, with our allies, with France,” said the American leader.
Macron and Biden have also agreed to celebrate the release of four of the Israeli hostages captured by Hamas on October 7 and “in putting the necessary pressure” on Iran to stop threatening Israel and destabilizing the region through its ties with Islamist militias such as Hezbollah in Lebanon.
At the end of the appearance, the two leaders participated in a Franco-American business meeting to later close the day with a gala dinner.
Biden and his wife, Jill, have begun the first act of their state visit to France – the American’s first in his almost four years in office – with a ceremony at the iconic Arc de Triomphe where they have been received by Macron and his wife, Brigitte.
At the event, Macron and Biden They have lit the flame dedicated to the “unknown soldier”which pays tribute to the French soldiers who died during the First World War (1914-1918).
Although the bilateral events with France began this Saturday, the American leader had landed in the European country last Wednesday, June 5, to participate in the commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the Normandy Landings which contributed decisively to the fall of Nazi Germany in World War II.
Biden will conclude his trip to France this Sunday laying a wreath at the Aisne-Marne cemetery (northeast), where the graves of almost 2,300 soldiers from his country killed during the First World War are.
Source: Eitb
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