French Defense Secretary Sebastian Lucurno, who visited Indonesia on Friday and Saturday, said France is strengthening its strategic cooperation with Jakarta and the Association of Southeast Asian countries (ASEAN) to avoid the risks of escalation in the Asia and Pacific region.
“There is a great strategic rapprochement between Indonesia and France to be able to confront escalation and re -arms and in a situation that allows diplomacy to be credible,” Lucurno said in an interview with Agence France -Presse.
France will also become an observer member at the expanded meeting of ASEAN’s defense ministers, which includes ten countries from Southeast Asia and eight surveillance countries, including the United States and China.
“We also aim to be political present in the region,” French Defense Minister told AFP, noting that France is a country that has regions overlooking the region where it wants to have a multilateral role and not only bilateral.
“Asyan, for us, is a very important space for dialogue, which also has peace and security solutions in the region. “.
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