Biden and Macron agree to meet next month in push to repair ties

France will send its ambassador back to US, joint statement says, after diplomatic spat over Australia submarine deal.

US President Joe Biden and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron will meet next month as the countries work to repair relations following a diplomatic brouhaha that broke out over a security pact with Australia.

In a joint statement on Wednesday, France and the United States said the two leaders spoke by phone and agreed to meet in Europe at the end of October.

The French ambassador to the US will also return to Washington next week, the countries said, after Paris recalled its envoy in anger over the security partnership between the US, UK and Australia.