Britain's 'love of France is ineradicable': Boris Johnson

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LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday (Sep 19) played down the diplomatic rift with Paris over a new security pact with Australia and the United States, saying his country's 'love of France is i

with Australia and the United States, saying his country's"love of France is ineradicable".

Speaking to journalists as he flew to New York, Johnson insisted that Britain and France have a"very friendly relationship", which he described as being of"huge importance". The security agreement, and Australia's related decision to tear up a multibillion-dollar deal for French submarines in favour of American nuclear-powered vessels, has sparked outrage in Paris, with President Emmanuel MacronFrench foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said over the weekend that Britain was a"third wheel" in the affair, and accused London of"constant opportunism".

France has cancelled a meeting set for this week between its Defence Minister Florence Parly and her British counterpart Ben Wallace, a source at her ministry told AFP on Sunday.He said the pact, dubbed AUKUS, was"not in any way meant to be zero-sum, it's not meant to be exclusionary". "It's not something that anybody needs to worry about and particularly not our French friends," he said.

 

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I thought Brits hated the French ? I am so sorry if i was so wrong

Yeah that's why England was at war with the French for much of the past 1000 years 😂🤣

Is he provoking French?

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