French President Macron Wants To Attend The Next BRICS Summit. Kremlin Says No

French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech at the Palais Brogniart in Paris on June 22, 2023. (Photo by AFP)  

RT: Macron is ‘inappropriate’ for BRICS – Moscow  

There should be no place for the French president at the bloc’s upcoming summit, a senior diplomat has argued  

French President Emmanuel Macron’s attendance at a meeting of BRICS leaders would be “inappropriate,” considering his government’s stance against Moscow, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has said. 

Paris confirmed this week that Macron is seeking an invitation to the bloc’s summit in South Africa in August. 

Speaking to journalists on Thursday, Ryabkov explained that Russia’s opposition to Macron’s potential appearance was based on France’s efforts to isolate Moscow and its support for NATO’s goal of inflicting a “strategic defeat” on Russia in the Ukraine conflict. 

“We are not hiding this position and have informed our South African colleagues about it,” Ryabkov said, as cited by Interfax. “We expect our point of view to be fully taken into account.”  

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