France said it would not give up its seat on the UN Security Council.
Paris:
France on Wednesday denied a report in Britain’s The Daily Telegraph that it would be willing to give the EU its permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
Citing a member of the European Parliament, the newspaper said that France would consider exchanging seats for the European military in exchange for the support of other EU members and that the way in which the bloc formulates its foreign policy. will improve.
A spokesman for the French presidency said, “We formally deny this. The seat is and will be ours.”
“We coordinate with the EU as far as possible and with full sovereignty,” the spokesman said.
France is one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council along with Britain, China, Russia and the United States.
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