Question 6632 — foreign policy

Summary

Mr. Peio Dufau alerts the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the need to prohibit the participation of Israeli entities in the Paris Air Show in June 2025. The resolution of the UN General Assembly of September 19, 2024 ordered States “to prohibit any export of weapons or related material to Israel and to prevent any economic or commercial relations with Israel that would be likely to strengthen its illicit presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.” From June 2 to 4, 2025, the President of the Republic will co-chair, with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, the international conference, set up by the UN, “responsible for examining the application of UN resolutions relating to the question of Palestine and the two-State solution, with a view to establishing a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East”. France's compliance with Articles 6 and 11 of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty is essential, otherwise it will discredit its action within the conference. The Government therefore has the obligation to suspend all arms transfers to the Israeli Government. After a telephone exchange with Benjamin Netanyahu in January 2025, Mr. Emmanuel Macron announced that “the presence of Israeli companies” at the Salon of Bourget 2025 “could be favorably examined”. However, as the NGOs point out, “welcoming a country accused of war crimes and genocide at a fair dedicated to the arms trade is an unacceptable form of complicity”. Indeed, many exhibitors and visitors to the Paris Air Show participate in commercial operations, talks or competitive intelligence activities, including the supply or the acquisition of weapons, equipment and similar services in the air sector. Through these activities, they are likely to be involved, directly or indirectly, in genocidal acts, serious attacks on the physical or psychological integrity of Palestinian civilians, as well as in the destruction of civilian property protected by international law. The decision to invite Israeli companies to the Paris Air Show on 16 to June 22, 2025, which appears to have been taken by the President of the Republic, violates France's international commitments. Authorizing Israel to participate in the 55th edition of the Paris Air Show legitimizes the abuses committed by the Israeli army in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and elsewhere. While all crossing points for the delivery of aid in the enclave have been closed, no goods or supplies humanitarian aid has not been able to be delivered to Gaza since March 2, 2025, aggravating an already catastrophic situation for civilians, France cannot be complicit in the action of the Israeli Government, which since October 2023 has caused the death of 51,266 people, including 15,613 children. In order to give credibility to France's position and to respect international commitments in terms of humanitarian law, he asks it if it will put an end to all forms of arms trade with Israel and ban the participation of Israeli entities at the Paris Air Show in June 2025.

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