“Let’s fight against the “Putinization” of the world”

Last week, our leaders gathered for the Armistice commemorations. It was the first time since 1944 that leaders of our two countries paid tribute together in Paris to those who sacrificed their lives for our freedom. This week we will meet in London for the first time since our appointment as Foreign Ministers, opposite 4 Carlton Gardens, where General de Gaulle set up his headquarters during the occupation.

It has now been a thousand days since Vladimir Putin unleashed an illegal war of aggression in Ukraine. By provoking the greatest conflict on the European continent since the Second World War, he attempted to rewrite the principles of international relations by returning to the law of the strongest and destroying the security architecture that ensured peace. for generations. He did all this to legitimize an offensive, however…