Biarritz (AFP)
Emmanuel Macron called on all his G7 partners to act together for the Amazon and work together to resolve major conflicts, but also to avoid trade wars, a message addressed to Donald Trump.
In a ten-minute broadcast on television, delivered a few hours before the summit kicked off, the French president responded to skeptics by saying he wanted "this G7 to be useful" and called on "to answer the call of the forest and the call of the ocean "despite in particular" disagreements on the climate with the United States.
On climate, "you know our disagreements between some countries, especially with the United States," he said. "But I wanted this G7 to be useful and so we have to respond to the call of the ocean and the call of the forest that is burning in the Amazon today in a very concrete way as well," he said. he said, from the lighthouse at Biarritz.
"We are all concerned, France is probably even more so than others around this table, since we are Amazonians" with Guyana. "So on the Amazon, we will launch not just a call but a mobilization of all the powers" present in Biarritz, "in partnership with the countries of the Amazon, to fight against these fires and to invest in reforestation", added the head of state.
He also wished Saturday "to convince all our partners that trade tensions are bad for everyone".
In addition to the trade war between the United States and China, US President Donald Trump on Friday threatened the threat of conflict with France and Europe, threatening to tax French wines in retaliation for the taxation of US giants. digital.
What the EU would counter, said the president of the European Council Donald Tusk on Saturday morning at the summit of the G7.
"I really want to call them also to calm, to concord, we have disagreements, sometimes there are caricatures, but I think that the great challenges that are ours, the climate, the biodiversity, the technological transformation, the worries in our society, the struggle against inequalities, this insecurity that is everywhere in the world, we will solve them by acting together, only by being more reconciled, "he said.
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