Macron meets Blinken for first talks since submarine crisis
2021-10-06 09:32:44 source：CGTN
October 5, 2021
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday held talks with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in his first meeting with an American official since the scrapping of a submarine contract with Australia plunged relations into crisis.
The Elysee said in a statement that French officials discussed with Blinken ways to restore U.S.-French relations after the row that prompted Paris to briefly recall its ambassador from Washington.
The one-on-one meeting lasted around 40 minutes with "common agreement that we have an opportunity now to deepen and strengthen the coordination" even though "a lot of hard work remains to be done", a senior U.S. State Department official told reporters in Paris after Blinken met Macron, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and Macron's diplomatic adviser Emmanuel Bonne.
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