The President of France criticized the attack orchestrated by the Trump government in Venezuela, in a diplomatic context of growing ‘neocolonial aggressiveness’
The French president, stated this Thursday (8) that the they are “disrespecting international norms” and “progressively distancing themselves” from some allies, in a diplomatic context of increasing “neocolonial aggressiveness”.
Macron made these statements during his traditional speech to French ambassadors around the world, which this year comes after the US attack and capture of Nicolás Maduro in in addition to his threats to annex the
“The United States is a consolidated power, but it is progressively distancing itself from some of its allies and disrespecting the international norms that it still promoted until recently,” Macron said at the Elysee Palace, the presidential residence.
“Multilateral institutions function in an increasingly worse way. We are evolving into a world of great powers with a real temptation to divide the world”, added the French president, who said he “rejects the new colonialism, the new imperialism”.
Although France celebrated the end of the “Maduro dictatorship”, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said on Tuesday that the US military operation is “illegal” and “contravenes the Charter of the United Nations”.
In this context, Macron stated that the EU must protect its interests and defended the “consolidation” of European regulation of the technology sector, which has been the target of criticism in the United States, and the acceleration of the European trade preference agenda.
France, which holds the G7 presidency this year, will also seek to promote “global governance reform”, he assured ambassadors.
The French president appealed to “the large emerging countries that wish to participate” to also join this objective.
Macron had already defended a reform of the Security Council of the to include emerging powers and expressed its support for the inclusion of Brazil as a permanent member of this body.
*With AFP
