Closer ties with Washington, and an olive branch for Moscow: France’s defense minister on Tuesday laid out French plans to rejoin a crucial post in U.S.-led NATO, while insisting that Russia must have a say in constructing European security.
France believes Moscow must be consulted before any further expansion of the alliance, which the former Soviet states of Georgia and Ukraine have been looking to join.
“These are things that cannot be decided without speaking to our Russian neighbor,” Morin said. “(Europe’s) security architecture must be built with Russia,” AP cited Morin as saying.
