Macron and Joe  Biden to meet Next month over AUKUS deal
Macron and Joe Biden to meet Next month over AUKUS deal
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French President Emmanuel Macron and his united-State-Counterpart Joe Biden have agreed to meet in October in Europe over the controversial Australia-UK-US (AUKUS) security partnership.

The AUKUS deal has raised concerns over nuclear proliferation from the international community as under the deal Australia has scrapped a contract to buy submarines from France in favour of US-made nuclear vessels, as per reports Xinhua news. Since the AUKUS pact was unveiled on September 15, France, outraged by the abrupt move without notice, has accused Australia and the US of "lying, duplicity, a major breach of trust and contempt" and also recalled its Ambassadors to the two countries.

During a phone call on Wednesday, the two Presidents "agreed that the situation would have benefitted from open consultations among allies on matters of strategic interest to France and our European partners", according to a joint statement.

Joe Biden and Macron have decided to open a process of in-depth consultations aimed at creating the conditions for ensuring confidence and proposing concrete measures toward common objectives, said the statement They will meet in Europe at the end of October "in order to reach shared understandings and maintain momentum in this process", it added.

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