Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron.
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The French President, Emmanuel Macron, again distanced himself this Thursday from his American counterpart, Joe Biden, and considered that the word “genocide” to define the Russian offensive in Ukraine should not be used at the political level.
“The jurists are the ones who should qualify it as genocidenot the politicians. If it is a genocide, the countries that consider it as such must intervene, according to international conventions. Do we want that? I don’t think so,” he said on public broadcaster France Bleu.
Macron warned that it does not help Ukraine “to enter into a verbal escalation without assuming all the consequences”, and stressed that Paris has sent magistrates and gendarmes to help that country document war crimes and be able to launch the relevant processes. .
Biden used the word “genocide” for the first time on Tuesday to describe the war in Ukraine. He did so when he was talking about his government’s efforts to curb rising gasoline prices as a result of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s launched invasion of Ukraine.
“The budget of their families, their ability to fill the tank, none of that should depend on whether a dictator declares war and commits genocide on the other side of the world,” he said, referring to Putin and Ukraine.
On March 27, Macron also distanced himself from the US head of state after he described the Russian leader as a “butcher”.
“I would not use those words,” he said then on the France 3 network, where the also candidate for re-election in the elections on April 24 stated that “everything possible must be done so that the situation does not skid.”
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– Emmanuel Macron distances himself from Joe Biden who called Vladimir Putin a “butcher”
– Biden uses the word “genocide” for the first time to describe the war in Ukraine
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