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Froissée par l'attitude de l'OTAN face à un incident ayant impliqué le 11 juin des navires français et turcs lors d'une opération de contrôle sur les livraisons d'armes à la Libye, la France suspend sa participation à ces opérations de l'Alliance. Dans une décision rare, la France a fait savoir à l'Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord (OTAN) qu'elle suspendait sa participation à toute opération de l'Alliance dans la partie orientale de la Méditerrannée.
Et ce jusqu'à l'obtention de réponses à des «demandes» concernant ses frictions avec la Turquie, a fait savoir ce 1er juillet le ministère français des Armées. En attendant d'avoir obtenu satisfaction, «nous avons décidé de retirer temporairement nos moyens de l'opération Sea Guardian», a poursuivi le ministère lors d'un point presse téléphonique. «Il ne nous parait pas sain de maintenir des moyens dans une opération censée, parmi ses différentes tâches, contrôler l'embargo avec des alliés qui ne le respectent pas», a fait valoir le ministère, visant explicitement la Turquie, membre de l'Otan comme la France.
According to Opinion, the permanent representative of France to NATO, Muriel Domenach, indeed sent a letter on June 30 to this effect to Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. A resolution in reaction to the action taken by the military organization - which France judges to be mild towards Ankara - to an incident which involved French and Turkish ships on June 11 during an operation to control the embargo on arms deliveries to Libya. According to Paris, a French ship participating in this NATO mission had been the subject of an "extremely aggressive" maneuver by Turkish frigates. While the French frigate was seeking to identify a cargo ship suspected of transporting weapons to Libya, "the Turkish frigates intervene and illuminate the Courbet three times with their fire control radar", which constitutes "an extremely aggressive act", had described the Ministry of the Armies just before a video conference of the ministers of defense of the Atlantic alliance, on June 17. "This case is very serious to us [...]. We cannot accept that an ally behaves like this, does this against a NATO ship under NATO command carrying out a NATO mission ", argued Paris, warning that the Minister of the Armies Florence Parly was going to" put the points on the i's "during this meeting on" the Turkish attitude in the Libyan conflict ". The next day, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg had promised to "investigate in order to clarify the situation and shed light on" the incident denounced by France. The Turkish ambassador to France said on July 1 that the NATO investigation did not confirm the accusations launched by Paris against Ankara. This French suspension decision comes against a backdrop of continuing tensions between Paris and Ankara, particularly around the situation in Libya. On June 29, Emmanuel Macron once again rebuked the Turkish authorities, believing that Turkey had "criminal responsibility" in Libya. A week earlier, the French president had mentioned Turkey's "dangerous game" in Libya, seeing it as a direct threat to the region and to Europe. According to him, the recent naval incident between Paris and Ankara also illustrated the "brain death of NATO". "Through the support it has given for years to illegitimate actors, France has a significant share of responsibility in the descent of Libya into chaos. From this point of view, it is in reality France which plays a dangerous game ”, had then retorted Turkey, by the voice of its spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hami Aksoy.
Source: RT 01 Juillet 2020
Et ce jusqu'à l'obtention de réponses à des «demandes» concernant ses frictions avec la Turquie, a fait savoir ce 1er juillet le ministère français des Armées. En attendant d'avoir obtenu satisfaction, «nous avons décidé de retirer temporairement nos moyens de l'opération Sea Guardian», a poursuivi le ministère lors d'un point presse téléphonique. «Il ne nous parait pas sain de maintenir des moyens dans une opération censée, parmi ses différentes tâches, contrôler l'embargo avec des alliés qui ne le respectent pas», a fait valoir le ministère, visant explicitement la Turquie, membre de l'Otan comme la France.
According to Opinion, the permanent representative of France to NATO, Muriel Domenach, indeed sent a letter on June 30 to this effect to Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. A resolution in reaction to the action taken by the military organization - which France judges to be mild towards Ankara - to an incident which involved French and Turkish ships on June 11 during an operation to control the embargo on arms deliveries to Libya. According to Paris, a French ship participating in this NATO mission had been the subject of an "extremely aggressive" maneuver by Turkish frigates. While the French frigate was seeking to identify a cargo ship suspected of transporting weapons to Libya, "the Turkish frigates intervene and illuminate the Courbet three times with their fire control radar", which constitutes "an extremely aggressive act", had described the Ministry of the Armies just before a video conference of the ministers of defense of the Atlantic alliance, on June 17. "This case is very serious to us [...]. We cannot accept that an ally behaves like this, does this against a NATO ship under NATO command carrying out a NATO mission ", argued Paris, warning that the Minister of the Armies Florence Parly was going to" put the points on the i's "during this meeting on" the Turkish attitude in the Libyan conflict ". The next day, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg had promised to "investigate in order to clarify the situation and shed light on" the incident denounced by France. The Turkish ambassador to France said on July 1 that the NATO investigation did not confirm the accusations launched by Paris against Ankara. This French suspension decision comes against a backdrop of continuing tensions between Paris and Ankara, particularly around the situation in Libya. On June 29, Emmanuel Macron once again rebuked the Turkish authorities, believing that Turkey had "criminal responsibility" in Libya. A week earlier, the French president had mentioned Turkey's "dangerous game" in Libya, seeing it as a direct threat to the region and to Europe. According to him, the recent naval incident between Paris and Ankara also illustrated the "brain death of NATO". "Through the support it has given for years to illegitimate actors, France has a significant share of responsibility in the descent of Libya into chaos. From this point of view, it is in reality France which plays a dangerous game ”, had then retorted Turkey, by the voice of its spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hami Aksoy.
Source: RT 01 Juillet 2020