Macron Responded To Trump's Territorial Claims

The President of France arrived at an archipelago off the coast of Canada.

French President Emmanuel Macron stated that the island territory of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean belongs to France, after U.S. President Donald Trump published a map on which the archipelago is marked with the U.S. flag.

Macron made this statement upon his arrival in Saint-Pierre, as quoted by BFMTV.

Macron emphasized that this territory is “French” and “closely tied to France,” in response to a map published by Trump in which the entire region is covered by the United States flag.

“We’re not going to repeat this every morning just because people have strange thoughts or say strange things,” the French president added.

Saint Pierre and Miquelon is a former French colony in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Canada. In 2003, the archipelago was granted the special status of an overseas collectivity of France.

On Sunday, Macron will meet with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in Saint-Pierre—the first such meeting to take place just a few kilometers from the Canadian coast.

“This is a strong signal,” he emphasized, referring to the trade war that Trump has unleashed against Canada.

In search of other sources of oil supplies amid rapidly rising prices caused by the war in the Middle East, Macron also hopes to find alternative solutions with the Canadians, who are major producers. In particular, he expressed his desire for “more (Canadian) liquefied natural gas to be shipped to the Atlantic coast,” and thus to Europe as well; in a broader context, he highlighted new “prospects for cooperation” with Canada.

Carney, for his part, had just returned from Strasbourg, where on Thursday he solidified a significant rapprochement between Canada and the European Union.

Following this, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose “heavy tariffs” on the EU if Canada became an associate member of the bloc.

In response, Carney assured that Canada would not yield to pressure from Washington.

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