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PM meeting with President Macron: 12 June 2021

皇冠体育app Prime Minister met French President Emmanuel Macron at the G7 Summit in Cornwall.

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皇冠体育app Prime Minister met French President Emmanuel Macron at the G7 Summit in Cornwall today.

皇冠体育app leaders looked forward to deepening the bilateral relationship between the UK and France, through more cultural, economic and security cooperation.

皇冠体育appy covered the issue of migration across the English Channel. Here they agreed that criminal gangs are putting profits before people鈥檚 lives through dangerous and unnecessary crossings. 皇冠体育appy discussed the need for our two countries work together to find ways to break the operating model of these people smuggling networks and save lives.

皇冠体育app Prime Minister expressed confidence in the UK鈥檚 position in the Northern Ireland Protocol. He made clear his desire for pragmatism and compromise on all sides but underlined that protecting the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement in all its dimensions was paramount.

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Published 12 June 2021