In Paris as in Moscow, the non-compliance with diplomatic secrecy has become a weapon of influence, against the uses in force.
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Lover of shine on the international scene, Emmanuel Macron has not hesitated, for several months, to take liberties with the ordinary secret of rigor in diplomatic affairs. Even if it means arouse some incidents.
The State Agency Ria Novosti, a belt for the mood transmission of the Russian president, thus discreetly alluded to the broadcast, Thursday, June 30, on France 2, of a president, Europe and the war. For this documentary turned to the heart of the Elysée, its director, Guy Lagache, was authorized to record the entire conversation between the French president and Vladimir Putin. While extracts from this interview have been published for a few days in many media, the Russian agency is offended on Twitter that “for a long time the French no longer respect the diplomatic rules of negotiations”.
The exchange took place on February 20, four days before the war. Guy Lagache follows from the office of the chief of the diplomatic cell of the Elysée, Emmanuel Bonne, an interview of one hour forty-five where Mr. Macron tries to tear down from Vladimir Putin the “principle” of a meeting in Geneva With Joe Biden.
The film retains nine, tasty minutes, where we hear the Russian president explaining that the Ukrainian government “is not democratically elected”, but would be the fruit of a “bloodthirsty coup” during which “People have been burned alive” and of which Volodymyr Zelensky is one of the officials “. Putin assures that he “always has a lot of fun” to speak with Emmanuel Macron, including from his gym, and finds a few promises. Behind the scenes, Mr. Bonne warns the director that Mr. Putin “always”. The meeting between Russian and American presidents will not take place.
a weapon between France and Russia
was Vladimir Putin warned that he was recorded? “We must ask the question at the Elysée”, evades Guy Lagache, who obtained a privileged access, for six months, to the activities of the diplomatic cell. According to Anne-Sophie Bradelle, the spokesperson for the Head of State in charge of the International and one of the documentary protagonists, Mr. Macron’s European interlocutors were warned “upstream”, there are more than Six months, that a journalist would follow from the inside the French presidency of the Council of the European Union – film which changes its object at the end of February to devote itself to the behind the scenes of the war.
For Vladimir Putin, things are less clear. “The Russian authorities were warned after viewing the film by Emmanuel Bonne and myself,” says M me bradelle: an agreement had indeed been made with the production company providing that the Elysée could See the images before diffusion (a passage was also cut, which, according to the diplomatic cell, has contravened Secret-Defense). A first viewing was held in May, the second just after Emmanuel Macron’s trip to kyiv, June 16.
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