Question 17382 — foreign policy

Summary

Mrs Sabine Rubin draws the attention of the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs to the nature of the possible pressures that France would exert against third countries in the context of the ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TIAN). Since 2013, France, on the UN scene, has refused to participate in two UN working groups on nuclear disarmament (in 2013 and 2016), voted against the resolution “Advancing multilateral negotiations on nuclear disarmament” (71/258, December 2016), allowing negotiations to be launched in 2017 on a legally binding instrument against nuclear weapons and refused to take part in the negotiation of the treaty now known as the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. France's diplomatic interventions with regard to all of this processes, which led to the creation of this instrument, were often very virulent, which explains measure no. 9 “France should tone down its criticism of the treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons and the countries which contributed to its adoption” of the report “50 years after the NPT, where are we? » by MPs Fanget and Lecoq and unanimously approved by the Foreign Affairs Committee (July 18, 2018). Regardless of the contours of such a treaty, the fact that France can exert pressure inconsistent with respect for the sovereignty of third States represents in his eyes a failure of France's duties as a Nation respectful of international law. If diplomatic pressure is part of the game of international relations, she asks him to kindly provide explanations and information on the pressures carried out against States, particularly in French-speaking Africa, to dissuade them from participating in this disarmament process and to discourage them from signing and ratifying the TIAN.

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