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For: EFE Updated 14 Apr 2022, 14: 08 pm EDT
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, once again distanced himself this Thursday from his American counterpart, Joe Biden, and considered that the word “genocide” to define the Russian offensive in Ukraine should not be used at a political level.
“ The jurists are the ones who should classify it as genocide, not politicians. If it is a genocide, the countries that consider it as such must intervene, according to international conventions. Do we want that? I don’t think so,” he said on the France Bleu public broadcaster.
Macron warned that it does not help Ukraine “to enter into a verbal escalation without assuming all consequences”, and stressed that Paris has sent magistrates and gendarmes to help that country document war crimes and be able to launch the relevant processes.
Biden used this Tuesday for the first time the word “genocide” to describe the war in Ukraine. He did so when he was talking about his government’s efforts to curb rising gasoline prices as a result of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
“The budget of their families, their ability to fill the tank, none of that should depend on whether a dictator declares war and commits genocide on the other side of the world,” he said in reference Putin and Ukraine.
The past 27 in March, Macron also distanced himself from the US head of state after he described the Russian leader as a “butcher”.
“I would not use those words”, he indicated then on the France 3 chain, where the also candidate for re-election in the next elections 24 of April stated that “everything possible must be done so that the situation does not skid.”
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