“We have to know how to become brothers in arms,” said the French head of state in Washington where he is received within the framework of his state visit.
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Emmanuel Macron arrived with great fanfare in the White House, Thursday 1 er December. The French presidential couple was welcomed shortly after 9:20 am local time by Joe Biden and his wife Jill, with all the apparatus associated with a state visit. The two leaders reaffirmed the Franco-American alliance, exchanging a hug of the White House Perrons.
For the first state visit to his administration, the American president underlined the “strength” and “sustainable vitality” of relations between the United States and France, his “oldest ally” and ” Unwavering partner “, welcoming, in French, the values of” freedom, equality and fraternity “.
“The United States could not ask for a better partner with whom to work than France,” said Mr. Biden during a brief statement alongside the French president, stressing that the alliance with France remained “Essential” to stability in the world, faced with the “climate crisis” and at a time when “Vladimir Putin” tries to “violently conquer Ukraine”, and “Break peace on the European continent”.
The French President, “Honoré and Emu” also recalled the “common history” between the two “nations sisters”, in their “fight for freedom” . “We have to know how to become Brothers in Arms,” said Emmanuel Macron. The two countries “are the strongest allies because this friendship is rooted over the centuries,” continued the French head of state.
The two leaders then maintained themselves in the oval office before a common press conference and a gala dinner in the evening.