U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and France's President Francois Hollande participate in the G7 summit at the European Council headquarters in Brussels June 5, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Laurent Dubrule
Hollande Dinners With Obama, Putin Feature Ukraine and Bank Spat -- Gregory Viscusi and Ilya Arkhipov, Bloomberg
French President Francois Hollande ate dinner twice last night, first with U.S. President Barack Obama and then with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Both meals had Ukraine as the main course.
The dinners were overshadowed by Obama’s comments earlier in the day criticizing France’s decision to sell warships to Russia and warning he won’t intervene to protect French bank BNP Paribas SA (BNP) from a potential $10 billion fine.
At the Paris restaurant where they ate, Obama made his point that the Mistral helicopter carrier sale rewards Russian misbehavior, and Hollande made his point that BNP is being treated too harshly, and then they moved on to other topics, French officials said.
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