This Thursday, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, ratified the strength of their alliance and the determination of both governments to face the actions of Russian president, Vladimir Putin, during the start of their meeting at the White House.
Both leaders made public statements this Thursday morning at a podium in the White House gardens, after the welcoming ceremony for Macron, who he is the first foreign leader to whom Joe Biden honors with a state visit since he came to power in January 2019.
At the beginning of his speech, Biden pointed out the alliance with France and highlighted the democratic values and respect for human rights that unite both nations, in comparison with the aggression against Ukraine by Russian President Vladimir Putin, since February of this year.
“France and United States they are facing the s Vladimir Putin’s ambitions of conquest and his brutal war against Ukraine, which has once again shattered the peace of the European continent”, said Biden.
Likewise, the French president considers that at one point in which war has returned to Europe with the Russian aggression in the Ukraine, it is essential that Washington and Paris once again be united “in their fight for freedom”.
“This common history obliges us also before the return of the war on European soil after the Russian aggression. (…) We must once again know how to be brothers in arms”, Macron said at the beginning of his reception at the White House.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought Biden and Macron closer to their relationship and, at the same time, has revitalized NATO, which the Frenchman accused of being “brain dead” in 2022.
Tune in as the First Lady and I greet President Macron and Mrs. Macron of France for the Official Arrival Ceremony. https://t.co/BuAKjKvTHk
—President Biden (@POTUS) December 1,
À la Maison Blanche.https://t.co/E7hj6GKQ9S
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) December 1,
With information from EFE.
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