{"id":586717,"date":"2025-11-22T11:59:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/586717\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T11:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:59:17","slug":"canadas-carney-and-frances-macron-discuss-ukraine-gaza-on-g20-sidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/586717\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Carney and France&#8217;s Macron discuss Ukraine, Gaza on G20 sidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reuters) -Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed \u200bthe war in Ukraine and the situation in \u200cGaza on the sidelines of the G20 summit in South Africa,\u200c the Canadian government said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The two leaders reaffirmed their support for Ukraine and stressed that any settlement to the war must involve Kyiv, respect Ukraine\u2019\u2060s core interests and \u200cprovide security guarantees, the Canadian government said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Carney committed to working \u200dwith allies to reach a &#8220;just and lasting peace&#8221; in Ukraine, it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The two leaders also stressed the \u200bneed to bring stability to Gaza and to \u200caccelerate reconstruction efforts to address the ongoing humanitarian crisis there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Carney and Macron discussed the Group of Seven advanced economies as Canada concludes its presidency and France prepares to assume the role, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Canada seeks \u2060to elevate its relationship with \u200bFrance with &#8220;more cooperation and \u200bnew partnerships&#8221; across energy, defence, aerospace, technology and critical minerals, \u200dit said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Prime \u2060Minister Carney and President Macron agreed to remain in close contact and directed their officials to accelerate \u2060progress on the priorities discussed,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u200c(Reporting by Preetika Parashuraman in Bengaluru; \u200cEditing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Reuters) -Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed \u200bthe war in Ukraine and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[34,2000,299,36,2194,2129,184975,657,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-586717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-emmanuel-macron","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-gaza","13":"tag-mark-carney","14":"tag-minister-carney","15":"tag-ukraine","16":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115593240186121183","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}