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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

French foreign minister makes rules-based order plea to global south over Ukraine

Jean-Noël Barrot arrives for an informal summit with European leaders
Jean-Noël Barrot: ‘A country under attack is a country under attack, and an aggressor country is an aggressor country.’ Photograph: Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images

European powers have made a plea at the G20 in South Africa to countries in the global south that they show unambivalent support for the international rules-based order, including the sovereignty of Ukraine.

Writing in the Guardian, the French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, said the real line of geopolitical division was not between north and south but between those who supported the international rules-based order and those who did not.

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