Macron in February infuriated Moscow by suggesting Western troops could possibly be deployed in Ukraine.
Paris:
France’s international minister mentioned Monday it was not in Paris’s “curiosity” to speak to Russia after differing accounts emerged from a uncommon cellphone name about final month’s lethal assault on a Moscow live performance corridor.
“It isn’t in our curiosity presently to carry discussions with Russian officers as a result of the statements and the summaries issued about them are lies,” Stephane Sejourne informed broadcasters France24 and RFI.
French President Emmanuel Macron final week slammed what he termed Russia’s “weird and threatening” tone following a dialog between French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu.
France mentioned Lecornu had aimed to cross on to Moscow “helpful info” concerning the March 22 assault which killed greater than 140 individuals close to the Russian capital.
The Islamic State group claimed accountability for the assault.
Lecornu’s ministry had reported him as saying France was able to step up exchanges to battle “terrorism”.
However Russia responded by warning France it hoped the French secret companies had not been concerned within the assault, based on a readout from the Russian defence ministry.
Earlier than France can discuss to the Russians once more, “maybe we should first set up belief, maybe above all have the army scenario develop on the bottom in Ukraine to allow a renewal of relations. This isn’t presently the case,” mentioned Sejourne.
Macron in February infuriated Moscow by suggesting Western troops could possibly be deployed in Ukraine, which Russia invaded two years in the past.
Sejourne concluded that the “lengthy custom with Russia of cooperation on terrorism” had now come to a standstill.
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