Addressing a joint meeting of Congress in Washington, the French President used one of President Donald Trump’s favourite catchlines to make his point, urging the USA to work with France to “make this planet great again”.
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As for Syria, Macron is thought to be playing an integral role in influencing Trump’s decisions.
Trump has threatened not to renew the 2015 accord, which curbed Iran’s nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief.
Trump on Tuesday seemed at least somewhat interested in Macron’s blueprint, calling it a “new deal” with “solid foundations”.
Adelman said Macron did well in his speech, and that he thinks the most likely path forward is a supplemental agreement to the original nuclear deal.
“As flawed as the deal is, I believe we must now enforce the hell out of it”, Ed Royce, the California Republican who chairs the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said in an October committee hearing.
In an apparent reference to his friendly meetings this week with Trump, he said, “It can remind you of something”.
Comedian Seth Meyers showed footage on his “Late Night” show on NBC of the 71-year-old Trump and 40-year-old Macron sharing an interminable handshake – similar to one the pair had shared last year. “It’s insane. It’s ridiculous”.
“This approach makes sense: other issues were always meant to be negotiated separately, but that can not be accomplished without adhering to the narrow, and extremely effective, nuclear agreement”, the group said.
A United States withdrawal would deal a blow to the other nations that helped broker it. The two world leaders were frequently captured smiling together and even held hands at times.
The broader deal would address the “whole of the situation in the region” and would be the only way to “bring about stability” there while also addressing Trump’s criticisms of the nuclear deal, Macron said.
“But we’ll see”, he continued, “also if I do what some people expect”.
Merkel’s working trip is expected to be far more business-like than this week’s pomp-filled state visit by French President Emmanuel Macron, who has built a warm rapport with Trump despite stark policy differences.
Russian Federation on Tuesday urged a United Nations nuclear disarmament forum to show its support for the “fragile” Iran nuclear accord by signing onto a statement, co-written by China, backing the deal. Western allies can not let nationalistic impulses take over and “undermine the liberal order we set after World War II”.
These demands were issued as an ultimatum to Congress and America’s European allies.
Macron called for a broader Iran nuclear deal that keeps the existing pact in place and adds new provisions created to curtail Tehran’s missile program and crack down on its actions in the Middle East. He has recently intensified his rhetoric, demanding to “fix” the deal and threatening to pull out of it otherwise.
“My commitment, my action is not to try to convince President Trump to walk away from his campaign’s commitments or to change his mind”.
We can only imagine these celebrities were slightly hurt to not find their invitation to the prestigious event.
“Iran shall never possess nuclear weapons, not in five years, not in 10 years, never”, Macron declared in a ringing, 49-minute speech to both chambers of the U.S. Congress. “You are the one now who has to help preserve and reinvent it”, Mr Macron said. Macron denounced nationalism, global isolationism, and environmental neglect in his powerful speech. This is an option. “The only thing we have to fear … is fear itself”, declared Macron, channeling Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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“Closing the door to the world will not stop the evolution”, he said. “It will not douse, but inflame, the fears of our citizens”, he said.
