French President Macron speaks with Egypt, Palestinian leaders

Paris, November 3

French President Emmanuel Macron spoke to the Egyptian and Palestinian leaders after every week of anti-French protests across the Muslim world and three Islamic extremist assaults on France.

Macron is searching for to calm tensions and to straighten out misunderstandings whereas additionally defending France’s values. The French president’s workplace stated on Tuesday that Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas each supplied him help.

Around the Mideast and South Asia, demonstrators have expressed anger in latest days over caricatures of the Prophet revealed in French newspaper Charlie Hebdo and Macron’s insurance policies towards freedom of expression and Islamism.

Macron’s workplace stated in a press release that el-Sissi expressed his solidarity with France and denounced the assaults in addition to the protests.

El-Sissi’s workplace stated the Egyptian chief instructed Macron throughout a Monday cellphone name that coexistence between completely different religions “should be promoted through dialogue, understanding, mutual respect and without prejudice to religious icons”.                

El-Sissi stated he and France’s chief mentioned their international locations’ “mutual positions” in combating extremism and its supporters.

Macron additionally spoke with Abbas, who supplied condolences and “his support to France in this ordeal”, in keeping with Macron’s workplace.

The Palestinian president’s workplace stated Abbas burdened “the need for everyone to respect religions and religious symbols and not allow anything offensive to Prophet Muhammad and all prophets and religions while condemning all those who do so”.       

Abbas additionally emphasised “his rejection of extremism, violence and terrorism”, whereas Macron expressed his “respect for Islam and the Islamic world”, in keeping with the official Palestinian information company WAFA.

Macron additionally defined France’s positions throughout a weekend interview with Arabic community Al Jazeera through which he referred to as for mutual understanding and respect.

Signing a condolence e-book on the Austrian Embassy in Paris on Tuesday following a lethal assault Monday in Vienna, Macron stated the killings “speak of the determination of our enemies to attack what Europe is, this land of liberties, of culture, of values. Therefore we will not give in”. —AP