Europe 1 with AFP 1:44 p.m., September 22, 2021

In an article, the British daily "The Telegraph" affirms that France would be ready to make available to the European Union its seat as a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

But the Elysee quickly denied.

"The seat is ours and will remain so," assures the presidency. 

France "formally" denied Wednesday information from the British daily

The Telegraph 

according to which it would be ready to make available to the European Union its seat as a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

"We deny formally. The seat is ours and will remain so," said the Elysee, reacting to the newspaper which asserts on the front page that Emmanuel Macron "could offer the seat to the UN" if the EU supported its plans for a European army.

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"We coordinate with the EU as much as necessary and in full sovereignty," said the Elysee in its reaction.

France is one of the five permanent members of the Security Council along with China, the United States, Russia and the United Kingdom.

An article in the midst of a diplomatic crisis

The Telegraph publishes its article in the midst of the diplomatic crisis between Paris on the one hand and Washington, Canberra and London on the other following the decision of these three capitals to enter into a strategic partnership in the Indo-Pacific area, which caused the loss to France a major contract for submarines with the Australians.

The publication of the article made several French politicians react. "Macron must deny urgently. France will never give its seat on the UN Security Council. Whoever would risk it would fall under high treason", wrote Jean-Luc Melenchon, candidate of the radical left, in a tweet. "If this information is correct, it is an act of treason against the Nation. If it is not, Emmanuel Macron must say it quickly," reacted the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen on Twitter.