U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris will take a trip in November to Paris for discussion with French President Emmanuel Macron, White House confirmed.

The White House announced  Harris’ visit to France as President Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron spoke by phone on October 22. The two Presidents are scheduled to meet in Rome later this month on the margins of the Group of 20 summit. Macron’s office said in a statement that he and Joe Biden discussed “the establishment of a stronger European defence, complementary to NATO and contributing to global security”.

Further to meeting with  Macron, Kamala Harris will deliver a speech on Nov. 11 at the annual Paris Peace Forum and participate the following day in the Paris Conference on Libya. She will be joined by her husband Douglas Emhoff for the visit.

The scheduled meeting comes amid endeavours by the Biden administration to soothe its relationship with the French which became strained by a U.S. deal announced last month to sell nuclear-powered submarines to Australia. The move by the U.S. undercut a more than $60 billion deal by a French defence contractor to sell diesel-powered submarines to Australia.

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