{"id":352234,"date":"2026-09-21T08:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/352234\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T08:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:28:09","slug":"macron-to-meet-trump-in-new-york-ahead-of-un-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/352234\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron to meet Trump in New York ahead of UN General Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Macron and Trump are expected to discuss the wars in Iran and Ukraine and as well as the conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;France is convening a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine and is also focused on Black Sea food security and grain exports,&#8221; said a spokesperson for the French foreign ministry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Both Macron and Trump are scheduled to hold talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on the sidelines of the general assembly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Macron&#8217;s meeting with Trump comes after Macron and Carney announced closer ties between the countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Speaking at a joint news conference on Sunday on Saint Pierre and Miquelon, situated just off Canada&#8217;s Atlantic coast, Macron said: &#8220;We both believe that our countries are two great, independent nations who want to remain so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;History remembers those who &#8230; defend their sovereignty, those who stay true to their values,&#8221; added Carney who is the first Canadian prime minister to visit the archipelago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Britain definitively recognised French sovereignty of Saint Pierre and Miquelon following the Second Treaty of Paris in June 1816.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Tiny French outpost off Canada the unlikely stage for new transatlantic courtship;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/france\/20260918-tiny-french-outpost-off-canada-the-unlikey-stage-for-new-transatlantic-courtship-saint-pierre-and-miquelon\" class=\"a-read-more__link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Tiny French outpost off Canada the unlikely stage for new transatlantic courtship<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It is France&#8217;s only remaining possession in North America, a vestige of the vast territories Paris once controlled in what is now Canada and the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Macron;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/france\/20260920-macron-welcomes-canada-s-carney-to-french-atlantic-territory\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Macron<\/a> argues that Trump&#8217;s second mandate has reinforced his stance that Europe needs to become more sovereign, especially on security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Carney;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/international\/20260917-canada-and-eu-stronger-together-says-carney-brushing-aside-us-threats\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Carney<\/a> has welcomed a proposal for his country to become the European Union&#8217;s first &#8220;associate member&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He has described his nation as &#8220;the most European of non-European countries&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Trump&#8217;s repeated remarks about making Canada the 51st US state have been rejected by Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Last Monday, Trump posted an image to social media with a map of North America in which Canada, Greenland and Mexico, much of central America and the Caribbean, as well as Iceland, were coloured in with the US flag.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The image also encompassed several French overseas territories, such as Guadeloupe, Martinique and Saint Pierre and Miquelon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Soon after arriving on Saturday in Saint Pierre and Miquelon., Macron reaffirmed the territory would remain French.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We both believe in democracy, the rule of law, respect for free and fair trade, the science on which our decisions are based, and the strategic autonomy that we defend,&#8221; added Macron during his conference with Carney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;And this is what very deeply unites Canada and France, Canada and the European Union,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Carney said: &#8220;The time has come to tighten our links between Canada and France, between Canada and the European Union &#8211; links based on the values we share.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(With newswires)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Macron and Trump are expected to discuss the wars in Iran and Ukraine and as well as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[131452,103761,9,11,10,131389,131451,1069,9046,131450],"class_list":["post-352234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-french-overseas-territories","tag-macron","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-president-volodymyr-zelensky","tag-saint-pierre-and-miquelon","tag-trump","tag-ukraine","tag-un-security-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}