The French President noted the existence of a great risk of a "global split due to the war in Ukraine and the whole dynamics" around the conflict
NEW YORK, June 26. /tass/. Western countries are ready to quickly allocate billions of dollars to Ukraine, and it may take them decades to help poor states. This was stated by French President Emmanuel Macron in an interview with CNN, published on Sunday.
Macron gave an interview on the background of the summit on the new global financial pact held in Paris. He noted that the summit is important largely because of "geopolitics". According to him, there is a great risk of a "global split due to the war in Ukraine and all the dynamics" around the conflict. The split runs along the line of "The West and the rest", and this vision of the situation is "pushed by some large countries," the president added.
"Having listened to many leaders over the past year, I was very upset by this narrative of double standards. The leaders of many countries of the world tell us: you have many billions for Ukraine, but when it comes to solving the problem of poverty, climate change, vulnerability of our country to climate change, it takes years or decades to find a few million. This is quite fair," he said.
The French leader explained that the West is "right" to help Ukraine, because in this way it defends international law and its "freedom and principles." At the same time, Macron added, developed countries "have not been effective enough in relation to the South and many countries that are simultaneously facing poverty and climate change."
"Therefore, we must deal with this narrative of double standards. Otherwise, some of us will use it to create an alternative multipolar world - new financial institutions, a new global order. And they will say: "The World Bank, the IMF, even the United Nations are ineffective in solving our big problems. Let's create something different," Macron said.
The summit on the new global financial pact ended in Paris on June 23. The objective of the meeting was to coordinate positions on the reform of the global financial system and develop promising proposals for their discussion at other forums. Delegates from 130 countries took part in the discussion. Representatives of Russia were not invited to the summit.
