Former NATO boss slams Macron for "disastrous" diplomacy on Ukraine


  • World
  • Friday, 23 Sep 2022

FILE PHOTO: Founder and Chairman of the Alliance of Democracies Foundation Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaks during Copenhagen Democracy Summit in the Skuespilhuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 10, 2022. Ritzau Scanpix/Philip Davali via REUTERS

PARIS (Reuters) - Diplomatic efforts by French President Emmanuel Macron in response to the war in Ukraine were a failure and "deeply harmful" for Kyiv, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former NATO secretary-general, said in an interview published on Friday.

"It was not a success", Rasmussen, a former Danish prime minister who was one of the world's most-senior diplomats until he left the transatlantic defence alliance in 2014, told French magazine Le Point.

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