“We are allies within the framework of the North Atlantic Treaty.
In this sense, the AUKUS agreement did not show the behavior of an ally ... And I told the Prime Minister about this, I think he admitted it, "RIA Novosti quoted Macron as saying.
On September 16, the UK, US and Australia announced a new AUKUS security partnership centered on the Indo-Pacific.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the creation of the AUKUS alliance between the United States, Great Britain and Australia as an erosion of the long-term universal formats of cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region (APR).