“What are you waiting to act?” In a letter addressed to Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister of Foreign Affairs, the deputy of LR of Hauts-de-Seine Philippe Juvin, challenged the Government about the issue of the repatriation of French citizens blocked in Israel.
Since Friday, June 13, and the military escalation between Israel and Iran, triggered by a great scale offensive of the Hebrew State, the services of Quai d’Orsay have faced the problem of guaranteeing the safety of French citizens who live or stay in these two countries.
Inform the authorities
In the Senate this Wednesday, June 18, the Chief of French diplomacy was arrested by Cédric Chevalier, senators The Independents of the Marne, who requested the establishment of “safe evacuation corridors” for the French in Israel and Iran.
“Our diplomacy should lead to concrete acts (…) What measures do you want to take to guarantee the rapid and safe repatriation of our fellow citizens?” He launched the senator to Jean-Noël Barrot.
At the moment, no repatriation operation is provided as such in Israel or Iran. “There are other countries that have chosen to evacuate all their agents. This is not the choice we have preserved, because it is the honor of French diplomacy being with the French communities, be the circumstances,” said the minister.
“As soon as Friday and the beginning of Israeli military operations,” France contacted its nationals in the two countries and Quai d’Orsay encourages to identify French death in Ariane’s thread. “We open a telephone line,” opened 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, added Jean-Noël Barrot.
“Clarify the outputs”
“I gathered all embassies, we will strengthen the listening system, we will contact the airlines to guarantee the availability of places, we will clarify the outfits of Iran, to Armenia, Turkey and Israel, to Jordan and Egypt,” he finally explained.
During the Defense and Security Council, which was held this Wednesday, June 18 at the Elysée, Emmanuel Macron asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs “to take the necessary measures to facilitate the departure of those who wish to do so from these two countries.” Operations organized by the crisis and the Ministry Support Center (CDC).
In Iran, Quai d’Orsay calls the French to “obtain security outside the Tehran agglomeration.” “Iranian airspace and Tehran International Airport remain closed,” Diplomacy said. “The French who cannot leave Tehran must be made to know, if he has not yet done so, with the telephone response of the embassy,” he said.
On the side of the Jerusalem Embassy, a form for an “assistance device of the tourists who want to leave the country” was created, but for the French death. You must indicate your names, names, telephone number and email to be contacted.
Quai d’Orsay, on the night of June 17 to 18, sent a message to the French blocked in Israel, asking “to stay close to a shelter, limit the essential activities and follow the situation with the greatest surveillance.”
“Flights from and from Ben -Gurion are suspended. Nationals who do not wish to remain in Israel waiting for the reopening of airspace can favor a game by land to Jordan or Egypt through the different border crossing points,” added French diplomacy.
Source: BFM TV
