JERUSALEM, June 14 (Reuters) – Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Friday rejected the principle of a “trilateral” between the United States, France and Israel to move forward on the French road map intended to defuse tensions on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
“We are waging a just war, we are defending our people, and France has adopted hostile policies towards Israel,” the minister said in a statement.
“Israel will not participate in the trilateral proposed by France,” he adds.
French President Emmanuel Macron declared to the press on Thursday, at the end of the first day of the G7 summit in Italy, that “the principle of an Israel-United States-France trilateral” had been adopted in order to “advance on the roadmap that we have proposed. (Reporting by James Mackenzie, French version by Sophie Louet, edited by Tangi Salaün)
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