Right this moment, the President of america and the President of the French Republic met in Washington throughout the first State Go to of the Biden-Harris Administration. This big day reaffirms a relationship based on greater than two centuries of friendship, financial partnership, protection and safety cooperation, and shared dedication to democratic rules, values, and establishments. France is america’ oldest ally, and whereas our relationship is rooted in historical past, it’s oriented squarely towards the long run. Constructing on their joint assertion of October 29, 2021, the leaders outlined a shared imaginative and prescient to strengthen safety and improve prosperity worldwide, fight local weather change, construct higher resilience to its results, and advance democratic values. This imaginative and prescient is constructed on a shared conviction that america and its European allies and companions can higher face our biggest challenges and capitalize on our most promising alternatives collectively. This contains addressing world points corresponding to local weather change and power transition, investing in applied sciences and constructing resilient worth chains in strategic sectors corresponding to well being, semiconductors, and important minerals, in addition to strengthening our safety and protection cooperation.
Transatlantic, European and International Safety
The Presidents resolve to proceed working tirelessly for a Europe that’s complete, free, and at peace. This entails sustaining our nations’ collective protection and safety, together with by NATO; pursuing a extra strong, built-in, and coherent strategy to constructing nationwide and collective resilience towards navy and non-military threats to our safety; and selling worldwide stability in response to the complete vary of present threats. The Presidents acknowledge the significance of a stronger and extra succesful European protection that contributes positively to transatlantic and world safety and is complementary to and interoperable with NATO. European-led missions and operations, corresponding to in Bosnia and the coaching mission for Ukraine, are positively contributing to transatlantic safety.
The Presidents commend the U.S.-France protection relationship and welcome the Assertion of Intent signed on November 30, 2022, by the U.S. Secretary of Protection and French Minister of Armed Forces, which permits for elevated interoperability and enhanced cooperation within the areas of area, our on-line world, intelligence, and countering malign affect. The Presidents intend to increase protection cooperation on superior capabilities and key applied sciences that can be vital to deterrence and protection sooner or later.
They welcome progress made by the U.S.-France Protection Commerce Strategic Dialogue in fostering shared views on protection market entry and export points. America and France intend to proceed our cooperation to boost the effectivity of the protection export authorization course of, with a view to growing stronger and interoperable protection industrial bases in Europe and in america as a way to ship higher navy capabilities for the advantage of the Alliance.
Ukraine
The Presidents strongly condemn Russia’s unlawful warfare of aggression towards Ukraine and stress that deliberately focusing on civilians and civilian infrastructure constitutes warfare crimes whose perpetrators have to be held accountable. In addition they condemn and reject Russia’s unlawful tried annexation of sovereign Ukrainian territory, in clear violation of worldwide legislation. America and France deplore Russia’s deliberate escalatory steps, notably its irresponsible nuclear rhetoric and its disinformation concerning alleged chemical assaults, and organic and nuclear weapons packages. They reaffirm their nations’ continued assist for Ukraine’s protection of its sovereignty and territorial integrity, together with the supply of political, safety, humanitarian, and financial help to Ukraine for so long as it takes. This contains the supply of great assets to assist Ukrainian civilian resilience by the winter, together with stepping up the supply of air protection techniques and gear wanted to restore Ukraine’s power grid. America and France plan to proceed working with companions and allies to coordinate help efforts, together with on the worldwide convention going down in Paris on December 13, 2022. In addition they intend to proceed offering strong direct finances assist for Ukraine, and to induce the worldwide monetary establishments to scale up their monetary assist.
America and France reiterate their obligation to uphold relevant worldwide obligations and the rules and functions of the UN Constitution. In addition they reiterate their steadfast resolve to carry Russia to account for broadly documented atrocities and warfare crimes, dedicated each by its common armed forces and by its proxies, together with mercenary entities corresponding to Vagner and others, by assist for worldwide accountability mechanisms, together with the Worldwide Prison Courtroom, the Ukrainian prosecutor basic, UN Human Rights Council Fee of Inquiry, and the OSCE Moscow Mechanism, sanctions, and different means.
America and France stay dedicated to addressing the broader results of Russia’s warfare, together with working with the worldwide neighborhood to construct higher resilience to meals and power disruptions.
Indo-Pacific
America and France, two nations of the Indo-Pacific, are strengthening their partnership within the Indo-Pacific area to advance prosperity, safety, and shared values primarily based on a rules-based worldwide order, clear governance, honest financial practices, and respect for worldwide legislation, together with freedom of navigation. America and France intend to increase their regional diplomatic, improvement, and financial engagement with a view to constructing resilience within the Pacific Islands. In addition they intend to extend sensible coordination within the area on maritime safety. America intends to extend its assist and materials contributions to air and maritime deployments carried out by France and different European nations within the area.
America and France will proceed to coordinate on our considerations concerning China’s problem to the rules-based worldwide order, together with respect for human rights, and to work along with China on essential world points like local weather change. The Presidents reaffirm the significance of sustaining peace and stability throughout the Taiwan Strait. Each leaders additionally strongly condemn the Democratic Folks’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) unprecedented variety of illegal ballistic missile exams this yr that violate a number of UN Safety Council resolutions and pose a risk to regional peace and stability, and are dedicated to proceed coordination on the UN Safety Council to handle DPRK violations.
Africa
The Presidents renew their resolve to work with African companions to pursue shared governance, safety, and financial priorities on the continent. They affirm the significance of African voices in multilateral fora, particularly in addressing world crises like local weather change, pandemic response and restoration, sustainable power entry, and meals insecurity. They intention to assist democratic establishments and civil societies in Africa to boost accountability and the supply of primary companies.
They reaffirm their joint assist for the African-led Nice Inexperienced Wall initiative to handle the local weather and biodiversity disaster, contributing to sustainable improvement, peace, and safety within the Sahara and Sahel areas. Preventing disinformation and terrorism stay joint priorities of France and america on the continent. France and america intend to proceed to work carefully with the African Union and African regional organizations to handle the continent’s challenges and seize alternatives to extend commerce and funding.
Center East
France and america are decided to work carefully in assist of peace and prosperity within the Center East. The Presidents welcome the launch of the Negev Discussion board and the second anniversary of the signing of the Abraham Accords, together with the historic breakthrough of the October 2022 Israel-Lebanon maritime boundary settlement. They’re decided to maintain joint efforts to induce Lebanon’s leaders to elect a president and advance vital reforms. They continue to be dedicated to keep up the means and capabilities obligatory for the counterterrorism mission in Iraq and Syria as members of the International Coalition to Defeat ISIS. France and america proceed to work to enhance the grave humanitarian scenario confronted by the Syrian individuals in addition to to advertise a long-lasting, simply resolution to the Syrian battle. They may proceed participating with companions within the Center-East and comply with up on the August 2021 Baghdad Convention.
The Presidents additionally specific their respect for the Iranian individuals, particularly girls and youth, who’re bravely protesting to realize the liberty to train their human rights and elementary freedoms, which Iran itself has subscribed to and is violating.
They continue to be decided to make sure that Iran can by no means develop or purchase a nuclear weapon. France and america proceed to work with different worldwide companions to handle Iran’s nuclear escalation, its inadequate cooperation with the IAEA, together with on severe and excellent points regarding Iran’s authorized obligations underneath its Non-Proliferation Treaty Safeguards Settlement, and its destabilizing actions within the Center East, most urgently its transfers of missiles and drones, together with to non-state actors. These transfers can threaten key Gulf companions and stability and safety within the area, contravene worldwide legislation, and now contribute to Russia’s warfare of aggression towards Ukraine. France and america will work with companions to boost cooperation concerning enforcement of related UN Safety Council resolutions and countering these actions. They may undertake joint efforts geared toward additional strengthening the worldwide framework constraining the proliferation of Iranian missile and unmanned aerial automobile applied sciences within the area and past and in enhancing sensible efforts to counter this proliferation.
Nuclear Deterrence, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament
America and France reaffirm that nuclear deterrence stays important for his or her nationwide safety and a core element of NATO’s total capabilities for deterrence and protection. They reaffirm that the elemental objective of NATO’s nuclear functionality is to protect peace, forestall coercion, and deter aggression towards the Alliance. They reaffirm the significance of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and their opposition to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which doesn’t mirror the more and more difficult worldwide safety atmosphere and is at odds with the prevailing non-proliferation and disarmament structure. America and France additionally reaffirm assist for his or her Mutual Protection Settlement and intend to increase their technical cooperation on a variety of strategic threat discount matters.
Financial system, Rising Applied sciences, Commerce, and Provide Chains
The bilateral funding and commerce relationship between our nations is longstanding and deep, creating vital jobs and prosperity for each. America and France reaffirm their dedication to an open and rules-based multilateral buying and selling system, with a modernized WTO at its core. In that spirit, they proceed to advertise bilateral commerce and investments that assist provide chain resilience and our high-tech and modern industries, together with aerospace, info know-how, prescription drugs, and finance. With a view to additional enhancing their bilateral commerce and funding relationship, they intend to carry discussions on reciprocal facilitation of visa issuance and renewal, and authorizations of keep.
America and France are dedicated to growing various and strong provide chains for vital minerals, together with by their collaboration within the Mineral Safety Partnership and the Partnership for International Infrastructure and Funding. They reaffirm their shared aim of accelerating the worldwide inexperienced power transition. They look ahead to the work of the U.S.-EU Taskforce on the Inflation Discount Act to additional strengthen the U.S.-EU partnership on clear power and local weather by mutually helpful methods.
House
The Presidents are dedicated to strengthening the U.S.-France alliance throughout all sectors of area cooperation. They spotlight their engagement in persevering with the longstanding bilateral cooperation in Earth commentary for monitoring and assessing local weather change and adapting to its penalties. In that spirit, they plan to working collectively on future Earth science missions. They welcome France’s dedication to not conduct damaging, direct-ascent anti-satellite missile testing and can work in the direction of common adherence to this pledge. America and France are decided to deepen collaboration on protection area actions, together with navy planning, info sharing, and operational coordination. They welcome the June 2022 signings of the Artemis Accords by France and of the House for Local weather Observatory Constitution by america, in addition to the primary assembly of the U.S.-France Complete Dialogue on House in Paris in November 2022.
Vitality
The Presidents welcome the profitable first yr of the U.S.-France Bilateral Clear Vitality Partnership, which convened most lately in October 2022, because the high-level platform to advance our power and local weather cooperation. In reaffirming their joint dedication to additional synchronize and deepen cooperation on civil nuclear power, america and France plan to arrange a nuclear power small group throughout the Partnership’s framework. The Partnership’s priorities additionally embody deepening civilian nuclear cooperation and contributing to a dependable nuclear provide chain, in accordance with the best requirements of nuclear nonproliferation, together with the applying of IAEA Extra Protocol, and by additional decreasing reliance on civil nuclear and associated items from Russia. The Partnership will promote superior nuclear energy globally, which has a key function to play in an effort to scale back world CO2 emissions, whereas persevering with efforts to restrict the unfold of delicate enrichment and reprocessing know-how.
America and France proceed to advertise power insurance policies, know-how, and innovation that improve renewable power manufacturing and accelerated deployment. They intend to proceed to assist the diversification of Europe’s pure fuel provide, together with by U.S. liquified pure fuel exports, in addition to to cooperate in decreasing total demand for pure fuel in alignment with local weather goals. The Presidents welcome the progress made by the U.S.-EU Process Power on Vitality Safety to diversify the EU’s pure fuel provides, decreasing its price and limiting its dependence on pure fuel.
Local weather and Biodiversity
The Presidents specific their deep concern concerning the rising affect of local weather change and nature loss and intend to proceed to impress home and world motion to handle it. France and america plan to proceed pursuing their efforts to assist the section out of coal as quickly as doable, each domestically and in rising economies. They plan to extend their assist in the direction of these nations that host essentially the most vital reserves of irrecoverable carbon and essential biodiversity. France and america will even work collectively to guard rainforests and to deal with deforestation and unlawful forest clearances, together with by the One Forest Summit that can be held early 2023 in Libreville. They may work collectively to make sure higher ocean safety in view of the following UN Ocean Convention that can be held in France in 2025 and are absolutely mobilized on the highest stage for the conclusion of the UN Treaty on the safety of the Excessive Sea in 2023.
Strengthening the Worldwide Monetary Structure
France and america intend to work collectively to strengthen the worldwide monetary structure to assist essentially the most weak nations in a context of a number of shocks, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the repercussions of Russia’s warfare towards Ukraine and the accelerating results of local weather change. America and France will even cooperate carefully to scale back the financing hole in rising and growing economies in an effort to foster sustainable pathways in the direction of internet zero. This contains working collectively to make sure that multilateral techniques are delivering well timed debt reduction from all key collectors to nations in misery.
As two main shareholders, France and america reaffirm their dedication to drive an evolution of the multilateral improvement banks, beginning with the World Financial institution, to higher deal with world challenges and assist non-public funding in rising and growing markets. France and america reiterate their dedication to assist meet the worldwide ambition of $100 billion U.S. {dollars} in voluntary contributions as quickly as doable for nations most in want, together with by the channeling of particular drawing rights.
The Presidents affirm their willingness to cooperate to lift the extent of ambition on these points, together with on the summit to be held in Paris in June 2023.
International Well being and Meals Safety
It’s becoming that this State Go to coincides with World AIDS Day, given our nations’ management in turning the tide of the AIDS pandemic and as the latest hosts of the replenishments for the International Fund to Battle AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Studying from the COVID-19 pandemic, France and america plan to accentuate their cooperation on world well being safety and pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response, together with by supporting the newly established Pandemic Fund, bolstering nationwide well being techniques, coaching well being employees, and strengthening multilateral establishments together with the World Well being Group. America and France intend to proceed working collectively to answer regional and world meals safety challenges. In addition they intend to advertise and safeguard an open and clear agricultural market, to spend money on resilient meals techniques, and to chorus from imposing any pointless commerce obstacles.
Democracy and Human Rights
The Presidents acknowledge that strengthening democratic values and respect for common human rights is crucial to assembly the unprecedented challenges of our time. They reinforce the commitments they every made on the first Summit for Democracy to assist free and unbiased media, deal with the proliferation of surveillance applied sciences and disinformation, bolster democratic reformers, and advance know-how for democracy. America and France intend to strengthen and increase the Freedom On-line Coalition, advance the commitments made within the Christchurch Name to Motion to counter the dissemination of terrorist and violent extremist content material on-line to higher defend human rights each on- and off-line, and plan to advertise the rules outlined within the Declaration for the Way forward for the Web.
Cyber and Disinformation
The Presidents renew their dedication to work alongside companions and stakeholders to advance cybersecurity and to uphold worldwide legislation and established, non-binding world peacetime norms in our on-line world, together with by the Paris Name for Belief and Safety in Our on-line world and thru an bold United Nations Program of Motion. America and France plan to carry their fifth U.S.-France Cyber Dialogue in early 2023. In addition they intend to strengthen bilateral coordination in combating international manipulation of knowledge on-line. They reaffirm their assist for unbiased media on the worldwide stage, together with by the Worldwide Fund for Public Curiosity Media (IFPIM) to be hosted in Paris. America and France underscore the significance of final month’s Counter Ransomware Initiative Summit the place they and 35 different members reaffirmed their cooperation to disrupt ransomware globally. Recognizing the rising use of business area capabilities to assist vital features and the growing cybersecurity threats to these capabilities, France and america intend to work collectively to strengthen the cybersecurity of those area techniques.
Training and Science Partnerships
America and France are dedicated to deepening their instructional cooperation with the shared goal of fostering higher fairness and entry to excellence in schooling. As a result of the ability of language and worldwide mobility can result in significant partnerships, they intend to undertake new initiatives to foster language studying, corresponding to facilitating French and English language instructing assistant exchanges between their respective nations. They welcome and assist the French for All initiative, which promotes higher and extra equitable entry to French language schooling and the advantages of bilingualism for younger learners throughout america.
America and France intention for a strong community of instructional partnerships and alternate packages to achieve the following era of transatlantic leaders who will form Franco-American relations for many years to return. This contains strengthening the flagship U.S.-French Fulbright Program, which is able to have fun the seventy fifth anniversary in 2023. In addition they intend to develop new methods for younger French and Individuals to find out about one another’s tradition and historical past, together with by Villa Albertine’s residency program for French and Francophone creators throughout america in addition to for American creators throughout France. Likewise, they’re creating the “250 for 250” program, which celebrates France’s function within the founding of america, and the enduring friendship between their two nations, by sending 250 French college students to check or intern in america and 250 American college students to check or intern in France.
By means of technical and scientific alternate, america and France intend to deepen their collaboration on shared priorities corresponding to well being, the atmosphere, and rising applied sciences, together with biotechnology, quantum science, and synthetic intelligence.
Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Emmanuel Macron
December 1, 2022
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