Australia has angered France by tearing up a 2019 supply contract for 12 attack submarines with a surprise agreement Sept. 16 for the delivery of American nuclear submarines.
In what French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called a "stab in the back," he deplored the Tuesday, Sept. 16 Australian decision to renege on its contract to buy 12 attack submarines from France.
"We had built a trusting relationship. Now that trust has been betrayed," Le Drian added. "Such a unilateral, brutal and unforeseeable decision strongly recalls [Donald] Trump," added the minister, who concluded this "deal of the century" while he was defense minister.
L’Australie a mis la France en colère après avoir déchiré un contrat de fourniture de douze sous-marins d’attaque, signé en 2019, au profit d’un partenariat surprise conclu jeudi 16 septembre avec les États-Unis et comprenant la livraison de sous-marins nucléaires.
Un « coup dans le dos ». Par la voix de son ministre des affaires étrangères Jean-Yves Le Drian, la France a déploré jeudi 16 septembre la décision de l’Australie de revenir sur le contrat de fourniture de douze sous-marins d’attaque.
« Nous avions établi avec l’Australie une relation de confiance. Cette confiance est trahie », a ajouté le ministre. « Cette décision unilatérale, brutale, imprévisible, ressemble beaucoup à ce que faisait M. Trump », a lancé Jean-Yves Le Drian, qui avait conclu le « contrat du siècle » sur les sous-marins lorsqu’il était ministre de la défense.
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