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France says to work with India to promote multilateral order

France on Friday recalled its ambassadors from the United States and Australia

Reuters September 19, 2021

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian attends a joint news conference at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany September 10, 2021. Jens Schlueter/Pool via REUTERS

PARIS:

France's foreign affairs minister agreed with his Indian counterpart to work on a programme to promote "a truly multilateral international order," the French foreign ministry said on Saturday.

Jean-Yves Le Drian and Subrahmanyam Jaishankar also agreed during a call to deepen their strategic partnership, "based on a relationship of political trust between two great sovereign nations of the Indo-Pacific," the ministry said in a statement.

France on Friday recalled its ambassadors from the United States and Australia after Canberra ditched a multi-billion-dollar order for French submarines in favour of a partnership with Washington and London in the Indo-Pacific region.

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Assad | 3 years ago | Reply How the hell is France a great nation of the Pacific They need to keep their noses out of places where there is no business. Indians can try all they want this enterprise of trying to coddle up to bade bhai Amreeki and Aussies to encircle China will fail the same way SEATO and CENTO failed earlier. They are screwing with China in its own backyard. As a response to AUKUS China should immediately supply Pakistan with nuclear submarine technology.

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