France's Le Pen Slams Macron for Pledging Long-Range Missiles to Ukraine
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Marine Le Pen, former president of the French right-wing National Rally party and the current chairwoman of its parliamentary faction, said it was "irresponsible" of the French president to pledge long-range missiles to Ukraine.
"I do not understand why Emmanuel Macron is not integrally focused on organizing a conference for peace to put an end to this [conflict]," Le Pen was quoted as saying by French media.
The leader of the National Rally group in the lower house of parliament spoke to the press on Wednesday during a trip to the riot-hit city of Beauvais, north of Paris.
She warned that a strike "on a third country can trigger a third world war ... We do not know how a third country would react if it were hit by a weapon supplied by France."
Macron's decision to supply Ukraine with SCALP missiles, the French equivalent of the United Kingdom's Storm Shadows, prompted a strong reaction from both sides of the political aisle in France. The right-wing Republicans slammed it as escalatory while the leftist France Unbowed warned of a possible direct conflict with Russia.
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