Given the unprecedented degree of pressure within the Center East and at President Macron’s request, Mme Catherine Colonna, Minister for Europe and International Affairs, has in current days launched into a sequence of consultations with France’s companions within the area.
She spoke to: Mr Najib Mikati, Lebanese Prime Minister, on 3 January; Mr Riyad al-Maliki, Palestinian Minister of International Affairs, on 5 January; and Mr Sameh Shoukry, Egyptian Minister of International Affairs, Mr Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Iranian Minister of International Affairs, and Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, the Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of International Affairs, on 6 January.
These conversations allowed the Minister to sign France’s dedication to the free supply of humanitarian help into the Gaza Strip to deal with the speedy wants of civilians, in coordination with Egypt and Jordan specifically.
The Minister additionally spoke about efforts to attain a ceasefire, with out which no lasting response may be made to the humanitarian catastrophe below approach.
The Minister additionally emphasised the necessity for all of the events to indicate duty and restraint to keep away from a regional escalation, which might profit nobody.
The consultations will proceed within the coming days.
