AUKUS | French minister decries 'duplicity' in U.S.-Australia submarine deal
The Hindu
The recalling of its ambassadors “signifies the force of the crisis today” between the French government and Washington and Canberra, he said
France's Foreign Minister on Saturday denounced what he called the “duplicity, disdain and lies” surrounding the sudden rupture of France's lucrative contract to make submarines for Australia and declared that a crisis is at hand among the Western allies.
A day after , French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian pummeled what he suggested was a backroom deal that betrayed France.
The recalling of its ambassadors “signifies the force of the crisis today” between the French government and Washington and Canberra, he said in an interview on France 2 television.
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