Emmanuel Macron expected Sunday evening in New York

Just before the G7, when public opinion began to be moved by the fires in the Amazon, Emmanuel Macron had created a surprise by declaring them a top priority. He had got the Seven to release an emergency $ 20 million to send some water bombers.

He also launched an appeal, with Chilean President Sebastian Piñera invited to the G7, for the holding at the UN GA of a meeting on reforestation in order to act in the longer term, with much more resources. .

The UN followed him: it is this meeting that he will co-chair this Monday morning with the Chilean president and his Colombian counterpart Ivan Duque.. France argues that it has every legitimacy to seize the subject as an Amazonian country, via French Guyana.

Several other heads of state will be present Monday morning for this session on the Amazon, as well as major donors (Germany, Norway, World Bank …)

But the meeting will take place without Brazil, where the forest is still burning. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro had violently attacked the Frenchman’s initiative, accusing him of questioning Brazilian sovereignty over his territory.

The French president intends more generally to take advantage of the Climate summit which will be held throughout the day to “
assert our climate ambition », Explains an advisor. He will call for mobilization for the Amazon rainforest and to refinance the Green Fund, for which France, the United Kingdom and Germany announced to the G7 the doubling of their contribution, to 5 billion dollars.

Trump-Spiritual?

His other great diplomatic ambition, namely to obtain a de-escalation between the United States and Iran, or even a historic meeting between their presidents, seems more difficult to achieve than ever, since the attack on Saudi oil installations which threw up a oil on the fire.

In Biarritz, Emmanuel Macron had made a diplomatic coup by inviting the head of Iranian diplomacy on site, with the approval of Donald Trump.

The French president perseveres. He planned to meet Donald Trump on Monday or Tuesday and could also meet the Iranian president, but this hypothesis depends on many conditions, indicates the Élysée.

As for a Trump-Rouhani meeting, if Paris does not lose hope, the Élysée recognizes that it seems particularly complex to set up, even if Donald Trump apparently remains in favor.

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