L’Australia cancels a large purchase contract for submarines from the France e Paris calls the ambassadors from Usa and yes Canberra. The two diplomats will return to the capital for consultations after the announcement of the strategic partnership between Washington, London and Australia which led to the cancellation of the signed contracts. A fact defined as “exceptional gravity” by the Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian. “At the request of the President of the Republic, I have decided to immediately call our two ambassadors to the United States and Australia back to Paris for consultations. This exceptional decision is justified by the exceptional gravity of the announcements made on September 15 from Australia and the United States, ”the minister said in a statement.
The United States, United Kingdom and Australia announced the birth of Aukus, trilateral partnership for security, wanted to share the technology in the field of IT security, artificial intelligence, underwater systems and long range attack capabilities. Under the pact it is planned to equip Australia with a fleet of submarines a nuclear propulsion. During Joe’s joint videoconference announcement Biden, Boris Johnson e Scott Morrison, the American president had referred to the need to ensure the maintenance of a “free and open” Indo-Pacific area and to cope with “the current strategic environment of the region”.
Immediately after the announcement, the head of French diplomacy said he was “angry”: “It is not done between allies”, he said with reference to Australia’s renunciation of the contract that bound it to France. “It’s a stab in the back”. Beyond the attitude of Australia, Le Drian also said he was worried about “American behavior” and about this decision “Unilateral, brutal, unpredictable” which “looks a lot like what Trump was doing.” He then explained that he had learned “suddenly, from a statement by President Biden, that the contract between the Australians and France would be terminated”, and that the United States will make the Australians a nuclear offer whose content is unknown. . “We’ll see what happens,” he concluded. “Our position is very firm, of a total misunderstanding and a request for explanations e clarifications on the part of both “.
Today the diplomatic move arrived, in the face of which Australia said it understands the “disappointment” of Paris after the Aukus pact, while hoping to be able to continue to work closely with Paris. “I absolutely understand the disappointment. There is no doubt that these are very difficult issues to manage, ”the Australian foreign minister told Washington Marise Payne. “But we will continue to approach constructively and closely with our colleagues in France,” he told theAmerican Enterprise Institute.
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