French President Emmanuel Macron responded to the territorial claims of his American counterpart, Donald Trump. He stated that the island territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean is French, reports BFMTV, according to UNN.
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This happened after Trump published a map on which the archipelago was marked with the U.S. flag.
In response, Macron said that this territory is "closely linked to France."
We will not repeat this every morning simply because people come up with strange ideas or say strange things
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Saint Pierre and Miquelon is an overseas collectivity of France, located in the northwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean, 25 kilometers south of the Canadian island of Newfoundland. It is the last remnant of the once-vast colonial empire of New France in North America.
The archipelago received this special status in 2003.
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