Q - The president of the Indian National Congress party, Rahul Gandhi, told the Indian Parliament this morning, “I met the President of France. I (…)

Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian will close the seventh meeting of the Joint Economic Commission between France and Uzbekistan today. It will be co-chaired by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, minister of state for foreign affairs, and Sukhrob Kholmuradov, deputy prime minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Q - Do you have any comment on President Trump’s remarks on Montenegro? Did he call into question the principle of collective defense among NATO (…)

France hails the signing on July 17 of the economic partnership agreement between the EU and Japan. In a context of trade tensions, this agreement sends a strong signal by the two great economic powers in support of open, fair international trade, both mutually beneficial and based on stringent standards.

On July 20, Minister for European Affairs Nathalie Loiseau will attend the General Affairs Council in Brussels, meeting in an article 50 format to examine the status of negotiations of the withdrawal agreement with the United Kingdom.

On July 19, Jean-Yves Le Drian met with his Djiboutian counterpart, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf.

On July 18, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian hosted Samir Sharifov, minister of finance of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

On this anniversary, France pays tribute to the memory of Nelson Mandela, “Madiba,” hero of the fight against apartheid in South Africa, who passed away on December 5, 2013.

This will be the first meeting between the Chilean minister of foreign affairs and the French minister of foreign affairs and will provide an opportunity to initiate our political dialogue with the new Chilean government.

France welcomes the adoption by the UN Security Council of a presidential statement on the situation in the Central African Republic.