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US & FRENCH PDT BIDEN & MACRON AGREED THAT AMERICA IS BACK&SHARING COMMON VALUES
DURING BILATERAL AT G7 UK SUMMIT 2021
US Pdt Joe Biden & Leaders of the G7 Summit UK (Source: Courtesy Joe Biden)
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President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. met today with President Emmanuel Macron on the margins of the G7 Summit. The two leaders reaffirmed their commitment to deepening our bilateral ties and to the Transatlantic alliance. They highlighted their dedication to ending the pandemic, including through participation in the G7 commitment to donate COVID-19 vaccines to countries in need, and to build back better global health security for the future. They reaffirmed their commitment to reform the international tax system to address some of the inequities created by globalization. President Biden expressed his appreciation for France’s leadership on climate issues through the Paris Agreement, and both leaders underscored their dedication to achieve ambitious outcomes at the COP26 Summit in Glasgow in November. President Biden and President Macron discussed our work to strengthen and modernize NATO, and our close cooperation on counter terrorism cooperation, including in the Sahel, and other shared foreign policy priorities such as China and Russia. » Source: White House
PRESIDENT MACRON TOLD PDT BIDEN « LEADERSHIP IS PARTNERSHIP »-----------------------------------------------
The U.S President Joe Biden, shows clearly, the American role, and effectively, thanks to his long experience of top diplomat, his American leadership is at its best. President Macron and other leaders, were awaiting for the USA, to come back along with European Union, over the multilateralism, and cooperate strategically vis a vis the crisis, of the pandemic COVID-19 but not only, as the lowest income countries are struggling, fincancially, socially, and health wise.---------------------------------
Hence, the role of the American leadership in this response from was the first announcement President Joe Biden, made on sharing doses, and promising half a bill does towards the lowest income countries, by 2022, not to mention the big share of participate at COVAX program. The USA, show the rest of the world, how they are getting prepared to be out front leading, in many sectors (fighting against COVID-19, boosting employment, fighting against climate change, protecting biodiversity, empowering youngsters in the USA and overseas, …) and stress the importance of how a democracy should work.
China, which is a large US partner, remains also a commercial threat for the USA, but also for the rest of the world, encourages, the USA, to rebooth the multilateralism, and federating the European partners, among others, in that matter.
Indeed, today President Biden met with G7 leaders to discuss strategic competition with China and commit to concrete actions to help meet the tremendous infrastructure need in low- and middle-income countries.--------------------------------------
President Biden and G7 partners agreed to launch the bold new global infrastructure initiative Build Back Better World (B3W), a values-driven, high-standard, and transparent infrastructure partnership led by major democracies to help narrow the $40+ trillion infrastructure need in the developing world, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.?
The French President Macron who seems to get along with the US, newly elected President Joe Biden, during the G7 UK, in Cornwall, expressed his joy and greeted his counterpart, before their bilateral meeting of 12 June. The French leader told Joe Biden, « I think that what you — what you demonstrate is that leadership is partnership. And — and we do appreciate it, and I think we can deliver great things for that. »-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
President Biden acknowledged that he as the US, President is sharing common values with his french counterpart Emmanuel Macron “We’re on the same page.”…Everything seems now possible again, as the USA, are opening a new chapter since Joe Biden is in the Office, who feels « honored to serve as the 47th US president », because, he also exclaimed « America is back ! »…
REMARKS BY U.S PRESIDENT BIDEN AND PRESIDENT MACRON OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC BEFORE BILATERAL MEETING------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We publish the full transcript of the Remarks by President Joe Biden and french President macron before their bilateral meeting, on 12June, at carbs Bay Hotel, Cornwall, at the occasion of the G7 2021, in UK. The USA, had the presidency of the previous G7, in 2020, which was finally cancelled, by former President Trump, during the hottest period of the pandemic COVID-19. This year 2021, is held in the UK, Cornwall, where her majesty the Queen Elisabeth, attended the G7 Summit honoring the guest leaders of the largets democracies, by her presence, and inviting them for a gal dinner.
3:01 P.M. BST
Q How are you, sir?
PRESIDENT MACRON: How are you?
PRESIDENT BIDEN: I’m well. The sun is shining. We’re almost on the beach. I’m well. And I’m with the President of France; that makes me even feel better. (Laughs.)
AIDE: We’re on.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: We’re on. Okay. We’re on. Did you know that? (Laughter.) Well, we’re — we’re just having a — we’ve had a good couple days so far. I’ve had a chance to spend some time with President Macron, get to know him. And we — we have some things we’ve got to talk about a little bit later, but things are going, I think, well. And we’re — we’re, as we say in — back in the States, “We’re on the same page.” So, thank you.
PRESIDENT MACRON: Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. We had a — I want to thank you for our discussion yesterday and the working sessions we had, indeed.
We have to — to deal with this pandemic and the COVID-19. We have to face a lot of challenges, a lot of crisis — climate change. And for all these issues, what we need is cooperation. And I think it’s great to have the U.S. President part of the club and very willing to cooperate. And I think that what you — what you demonstrate is that leadership is partnership. And — and we do appreciate it, and I think we can deliver great things for that.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: I think we can do a lot, too. We — the United States, I’ve said before — we’re back. The U.S. is back. We feel very, very strongly about the cohesion of NATO. And I, for one, think that the European Union is an incredibly strong and vibrant entity that has a lot to do with the ability of Western Europe to not only handle its economic issues, but provide the backbone and the support for NATO.
And so I — we’re very supportive — very supportive.
PRESIDENT MACRON: Thank you.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: Thank you.
Q Mr. President, have you convinced allies that America is back?
PRESIDENT BIDEN: Ask him.
Q Is America back?
PRESIDENT MACRON: Yeah. Definitely.
Q Do you believe America is back?
PRESIDENT MACRON: Definitely.
3:03 P.M. BST Source: White House/ Elysee
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