PM Mottley meets with French President Macron

Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley met with France’s President Emmanuel Macron during her visit to Paris today.

The two leaders welcomed the increasingly strong friendship and partnership between the countries, which share the ambition of seeing a fairer international system that addresses the finance needs of developing countries and vulnerable people and which invests collectively in a just ecological transition worldwide.

They discussed the preparation of the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact, planned for 22 and 23 June in Paris.

Prime Minister Mottley and President Macron agreed to continue their close cooperation to prepare for this decisive summit, which seeks to lay the foundations of a more responsive, just and inclusive international financial system.

The two leaders underlined the importance of this event for the bringing together of views across continents and for building a new pact on tangible solutions that will finance the fight against poverty and inequalities and for the climate transition.

They also discussed the first promising proposed solution, which builds on solutions both initiated by France and advanced by the G20 in recent years and the ambitious and innovative proposals of the Bridgetown Initiative, led by Barbados.

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