🌍 The #AIActionSummit: >100 countries in Paris to shape a common future for AI.

Outcome: >100 tangible actions, 3 priorities. 🧵 1/7 1️⃣ AI for all → launch of an AI observatory and a €400 million international fund for public interest AI. 2/7

🔴 The 27 EU member states have adopted a 4th massive sanctions package 🇪🇺 against #Russia.

→ Individual sanctions
→ Sectoral sanctions

[1/9] 🔴 The 27 EU member states have adopted a 4th massive sanctions package 🇪🇺 against #Russia.

↓ Individual sanctions

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For several weeks, Russia has been carrying out a disinformation campaign about the supposed development of chemical agents by 🇺🇦. These baseless allegations are an integral part of Moscow’s war propaganda aimed at spreading confusion.

Background 👇 Russia has regularly spread disinformation about chemical weapons, making false allegations as it has done in Syria. ⬇

The offensive of the Russian armed forces continues across the territory of #Ukraine.

ℹ️ Situation as of 22 March 2022 →
defense.gouv.fr/ukraine-point-…

@Armees_Gouv

[1/8] In brief:

- Intense bombing, especially in Mariupol and Mykolaiv, maintains heavy pressure on urban centres in the east and the south.
- Elsewhere, the tactical situation remains static.

#Ukraine
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The Council of 🇪🇺 Foreign Affairs Ministers is taking place today in Brussels.

@JY_LeDrian is taking part and will address the situation in #Ukraine, #Mali and the #Sahel with his counterparts, and the Strategic Compass with 🇪🇺 Defence Ministers.

#FAC #EU2022FR #Ukraine | Following the Versailles Summit, the 🇪🇺 ministers will speak about the war started by 🇷🇺 against 🇺🇦.
- Sanctions against 🇷🇺
- Support to 🇺🇦 and its neighbours, especially Moldova
- The fight against disinformation and Russian propaganda
- Food security

The offensive of the Russian armed forces continues across the territory of #Ukraine.

ℹ️ Situation as of 21 March 2022:

@Armees_Gouv

[1/6] In brief:

- Intense shelling maintains strong pressure on urban centres in the east and south, particularly in Mariupol and Mykolayev.

- Elsewhere, the tactical situation remains static.

#Ukraine
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To better understand the situation in #Ukraine, let’s review the facts.
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[1/14] November 2013: President Yanukovych of Ukraine decides to suspend the signing of the association agreement with the EU, sparking what is known as the Maidan Revolution, which is then brutally suppressed.
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#Ukraine | As the French President @EmmanuelMacron said this morning, France condemns in the strongest terms the military invasion of Ukraine launched by Russia overnight.

@JY_LeDrian

👉fdip.fr/3aTkxv1G It also condemns the use of Belarusian territory authorized by the Lukashenko regime to carry out this aggression against a sovereign country.
@JY_LeDrian

Africa doesn’t have a ‘French problem’ and France is not afraid to confront its past. African states are sovereign and make their own decisions.
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https://twitter.com/trtworld/status/1275383100328022018

2./ Quite apart from a pretty biaised “analysis” there are some glaring errors in your video: the maps are wrong, both for former French Colonies and for our military bases, for one thing. And by the way, Ghana has never been a French Colony.

#Italy 🇮🇹 | ❝France🇫🇷 calls on Italy to take action to restore the relationship based on friendship and mutual respect that measures up to our history and our common destiny.❞

Recalling of the ambassador of France for consultations

🔴Statement ➡︎ fdip.fr/p7faIVTl The 🇫🇷-🇮🇹 friendship is more essential than ever in order to address the challenges we face in the 21st century.

For several months now, 🇫🇷France has - as everyone knows or may be aware of - been the target of repeated accusations, baseless attacks and outrageous remarks.