The meeting was ultimately enthusiastic. Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday underlined France’s “willingness” to “move forward” with the United Kingdom after meeting for the first time one-on-one with the new Prime Minister Liz Truss in New York.
“I believe in the results (…) There is a desire to move forward” so that the two countries are “allies and friends in a complex world”, declared the Head of State to the press at the end. of the interview on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. The two leaders greeted each other warmly after making distant remarks before the Conservative prime minister took office on September 5.
Ukraine on the menu of discussions
Asked about Emmanuel Macron, “friend or enemy”, during an electoral meeting of the conservative party, Liz Truss then refused to answer. “The jury is still deliberating,” replied the then head of British diplomacy. The President reacted by declaring that the United Kingdom was “a friendly, strong and allied nation, whoever its leaders”.
At the start of Tuesday’s interview, which focused in particular on the war in Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron once again expressed the “affection” of the French people the day after the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, which he attended with “emotion with his wife Brigitte.