The two Foreign Ministers met in London a day after UK and French daily papers published a joint article in which they criticised the invasion of Ukraine and called for a ceasefire in Gaza.
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00:00France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrault has met his British counterpart David Lamy
00:05in London against a backdrop of what Lamy called tough geopolitical times.
00:10An article written by the two foreign ministers and published in both the UK's Eye newspaper
00:15and France's Le Figaro gave some indication of the topics they were expected to cover
00:20in Friday's talks.
00:22They warned of the consequences of what they called the attempted Putinization of the world
00:26as the war in Ukraine spreads beyond Europe.
00:29They criticized Putin's illegal and intolerable invasion of Ukraine and accused the Russian
00:34leader of attempting to rewrite the international order.
00:38Both France and the UK have been staunch supporters of Ukraine since Russia's 2022 invasion, providing
00:44billions of euros in both military and humanitarian assistance to Kiev.
00:48Lamy and Barrault also repeated their condemnation of the 7th October Hamas incursion into Israel
00:54last year, which sparked the war in Gaza.
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