2023-09-10 13:46:00
The G20 summit chaired by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday in New Delhi, in the absence of Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, resulted, this Sunday and against all odds, in a consensual final declaration, but not without compromise. Emmanuel Macron judged Sunday “insufficient” these results in terms of climate and “alert everyone”, during a press conference, at midday. The French president also mentioned the unprecedented earthquake in Morocco but also the coup d’état in Niger. 20 Minutes comes back to the President’s speech.
On Morocco
France is ready to “intervene” to help Morocco “the second” the Moroccan authorities ask for it, after the earthquake which killed at least 2,000 people, the president said on Sunday. “We have mobilized all the technical and security teams to be able to intervene when the Moroccan authorities deem it necessary”, he added, describing the earthquake as “a tragedy that affects us all”. “The Moroccan authorities know exactly what can be delivered, the nature and the timing. The second this aid is requested, it will be deployed and we stand ready, now it is obviously up to the Moroccan authorities to decide based on their assessment on the ground and so that it is done in good order,” he said. insisted the French head of state.
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Emmanuel Macron also spoke of a tragedy that affects the French in their “intimacy”, in their “flesh, even”, because of the “millions of dual nationals or French and French women who are of Moroccan origin, who have family over there “. He said he “had the opportunity to speak at length with his majesty the king a few days ago”, “before the earthquake”. Since the earthquake, “we have exchanged oral messages and I sent him a letter in the first hours.”
On “urgent needs” assistance
At the same time, Emmanuel Macron signed with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Comoros President Azali Assoumani currently at the head of the African Union, and the leaders of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission, a declaration joint promise to “provide all necessary assistance for urgent short-term needs as well as reconstruction efforts”. “To this end, we will mobilize our technical and financial tools and our assistance in a coordinated manner to help the Moroccan people overcome this terrible tragedy,” they affirm.
On “climate” objectives
Emmanuel Macron on Sunday judged the results of the G20 summit in New Delhi to be “insufficient” in terms of climate and “alerted everyone” of the need to set more ambitious objectives, particularly on the exit from oil.
The final communiqué of the leaders of the great rich and emerging powers meeting in India over the weekend does not call for an exit from fossil fuels, contrary to the hopes of several observers. “It’s insufficient,” admitted the French head of state. “And for my part I am very concerned about the spirit which is beginning to reign, including within the members of the G20, on the climate issue”, less than three months before COP28, he said. he added in front of the press. “I am alerting everyone, we are not there,” he insisted, saying he heard “too easy a discourse which is taking hold among certain emerging countries to say that only the richest countries have a responsibility” .
Emmanuel Macron called for “getting out of coal very quickly and much faster than today”, from “2030”, but also “as quickly as possible from oil”, “well before 2050”. “The richest countries must make the effort, we are in the process of doing it, it costs us”, “but we are doing it, it is legitimate and normal”, he said, while asking the emerging countries, particularly oil producers, to now also do their part.
On the Niger
A possible redeployment of French forces in Niger will only be decided at the request of President Mohamed Bazoum, overthrown by a coup d’état but still considered by France as the legitimate head of state, declared Emmanuel Macron. “If we redeploy anything, I will only do so at the request of President Bazoum and in coordination with him. Not with officials who today are taking a president hostage,” he said during a press conference following the G20 summit meeting this weekend in New Delhi.
The Nigerien military regime, resulting from the July 26 coup, accused Paris on Saturday of “deploying its forces” in several West African countries with a view to “aggression” against Niger. “We do not recognize any legitimacy in the declarations of the putschists,” replied Emmanuel Macron, demanding “the release of President Bazoum and the restoration of constitutional order.”
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