French President Emmanuel Macron is scheduled to meet US President Donald Trump on Monday in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. The meeting comes one day after Macron held talks with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in Saint Pierre and Miquelon.
Macron and Trump are expected to discuss the wars in Iran and Ukraine, as well as the conflict in the Middle East.
“France is convening a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine and is also focused on Black Sea food security and grain exports,” a French Foreign Ministry spokesperson said.
Both leaders are also scheduled to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the General Assembly.
The talks with Trump follow Macron and Carney’s announcement of closer ties between France and Canada.
Speaking at a joint news conference Sunday in Saint Pierre and Miquelon, a French archipelago off Canada’s Atlantic coast, Macron said: “We both believe that our countries are two great, independent nations who want to remain so.
“History remembers those who defend their sovereignty and stay true to their values,” said Carney, the first Canadian prime minister to visit the islands.
Britain formally recognised French sovereignty over Saint Pierre and Miquelon under the Second Treaty of Paris in June 1816.
The islands are France’s only remaining territory in North America and a remnant of the vast lands once controlled by Paris in present-day Canada and the United States.
Macron has argued that Trump’s second term has strengthened the case for greater European sovereignty, particularly in matters of security.
Carney has welcomed a proposal for Canada to become the European Union’s first associate member, describing his country as “the most European of non-European countries.”
Ottawa has rejected Trump’s repeated calls for Canada to become the 51st US state.
Last Monday, Trump shared an image on social media showing a map of North America with Canada, Greenland, Mexico, much of Central America and the Caribbean, and Iceland covered by the US flag.
The image also included several French overseas territories, including Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon.
Shortly after arriving in Saint Pierre and Miquelon on Saturday, Macron reaffirmed that the territory would remain French.
“We both believe in democracy, the rule of law, respect for free and fair trade, the science on which our decisions are based, and the strategic autonomy that we defend,” Macron said during his news conference with Carney.
“This is what very deeply unites Canada and France, Canada and the European Union,” he added.
Carney said: “The time has come to strengthen the links between Canada and France and between Canada and the European Union—links based on the values we share.”
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