US President Joe Biden and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron had a 'friendly' phone call to defuse deep row over submarine sales to Australia
US President Joe Biden and France's President Emmanuel Macron attend a plenary session during G7 summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, Britain, on June 13, 2021.
In a joint statement after the call, the two leaders vowed to launch "in-depth consultations... for ensuring confidence" and to meet in Europe at the end of October. The statement also said Macron would order France's ambassador back to Washington next week. The French-language version issued by the Elysee Palace was even more explicit, saying consultations "would have avoided this situation."
The submarine row plunged Franco-US ties into what some analysts viewed as the most acute crisis since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, which Paris opposed.
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