France Needs to Build Strategic Partnership With Russia, Turkey - French President Emmanuel Macron
France should build strategic partnership with Russia and Turkey, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday
PARIS (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 27th August, 2018) France should build strategic partnership with Russia and Turkey, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday.
"We cannot build Europe in the long term without thinking about relations with Russia and Turkey � Do we think clearly and frankly today that we can continue to talk about Turkey's membership in the European Union, when every day the Turkish president .
.. reaffirms the pan-Islamic agenda, which seems to be anti-European? � It is necessary, therefore, to build a strategic partnership, not membership in the European Union. Strategic partnership with Russia and Turkey, because these two powers are important for our collective security, they need to be tied to Europe," Macron told French ambassadors in Paris.