{"id":537,"date":"2021-09-18T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T10:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=537"},"modified":"2021-09-25T17:38:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T17:38:45","slug":"france-call-back-ambassadors-to-us-australia-over-submarine-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/world\/france-call-back-ambassadors-to-us-australia-over-submarine-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"France call back ambassadors to US, Australia over submarine backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian terms US move as a \u2018stab in the back<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISLAMABAD, September,18 (Asia Free Press): France on Saturday announced to call back its ambassador from US and Australia after Canberra rolled back its around $50 billion Australian dollar deal to acquire French-designed submarines, official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said he recalled its envoys on the instruction of the President Emmanuel Macron without delay for consultation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis exceptional decision is justified by the exceptional gravity of the announcements made on 15th September by Australia and the United States,\u201d Darian said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe cancellation of the Attack class submarine program binding Australia and France since 2016, and the announcement of a new partnership with the United States meant to launch studies on a possible future cooperation on nuclear-powered submarines, constitute unacceptable behavior between allies and partners, whose consequences directly affect the vision we have of our alliances, of our partnerships and of the importance of the Indo-Pacific for Europe,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diplomatic relations between France and US, Australia tensed for the first time in decades after Canberra cancelled its around $50 billion deal with Paris and signed a new agreement with US for nuclear submarine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier in the day, French top diplomat termed the new agreement between Australia, US and UK as a \u201cstab in the back\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Australia had chosen France’s Naval Group, partly owned by the state, to build 12 conventionally powered submarines, based on France’s Barracuda nuclear-powered subs in development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday, US President Joe Biden, along with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, announced a new US security alliance between their countries that would develop an Australian nuclear-powered submarine fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Australia-UK-US alliance \u2013 dubbed AUKUS \u2013 has been strongly condemned by France, with Le Drian calling it \u201ca stab in the back\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, China has also voiced opposition against the trilateral move, describing it as a “sheer act of nuclear proliferation.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian terms US move as a \u2018stab in the back ISLAMABAD, September,18 (Asia Free Press): France on Saturday announced to call back its ambassador from US and Australia after Canberra rolled back its around $50 billion Australian dollar deal to acquire French-designed submarines, official said. In a statement, French Foreign […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342,6],"tags":[221,220,222,74],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","tag-australia","tag-france","tag-submarine","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}