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Friday 19 January 2018

UK to boost French border but May, Macron disagree on Brexit

By JILL LAWLESS Macron and May inspect-
Associated Press ed the honor guard before
CAMBERLEY, England (AP) taking a salute from soldiers
— The leaders of Britain on horseback.
and France met Thursday Senior ministers from the
against a military backdrop two countries attended
to pledge closer coop- the one-day meeting, and
eration on defense, secu- signed agreements on ev-
rity and borders after Britain erything from space explo-
leaves the European Union. ration to tackling online ex-
But President Emmanuel tremism.
Macron also delivered a In a significant gesture, May
firm message: the U.K. can- offered millions to ease
not keep coveted access French annoyance over a
to the European Union for 2003 deal that placed Brit-
its financial sector after ish border controls in the
Brexit unless it continues northern French port of
to play by the bloc’s rules Calais.
once it leaves. The town has become a
“The choice is on the British magnet for migrants hop-
side, not on my side,” Ma- ing to reach Britain, and
cron said at a joint news French President Emmanuel Macron and Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May look at two Royal Air the accord puts the bur-
conference with British Force planes as they perform a fly past ahead of the start of an Anglo-French summit at the Royal den of blocking their entry
Prime Minister Theresa May. Military College at Sandhurst, Camberley England , Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018. to the U.K. on France.
“If you want access to the (AP Photo/Alastair Grant) Alongside a new treaty
single market — including She said London would re- negotiates its exit from the May treated the French aimed at better manage-
the financial services —- be main a major financial cen- EU. leader to a pub lunch of ment of their joint border,
my guest,” he said. “But it ter after Brexit. The venue — the Sandhurst crab and duck breast, fol- Britain agreed to pay 44.5
means that you need to The visit, Macron’s first military academy south- lowed by a serving of British million pounds ($62 million)
contribute to the budget to Britain since he won west of London — was military pomp. Macron was for fences, security cam-
and acknowledge Europe- the French presidency in selected as a signal that greeted at the Sandhurst eras and other measures
an jurisdiction.” May 2017, was aimed at the relationship between officer-training academy in Calais and nearby Eng-
May said Britain would be strengthening security and western Europe’s two big- by a band and troops from lish Channel ports. France
leaving the single market, intelligence ties between gest military powers won’t the Coldstream Guards in also wants Britain to take in
but wanted a free-trade nations that are both neigh- be weakened once the gray coats and bearskin more migrants from Calais,
deal with the bloc covering bors and historic rivals, and U.K. leaves the EU in March hats. especially unaccompa-
both goods and services. building goodwill as Britain 2019. Amid a sudden hailstorm, nied children.q

Ukraine passes bill to get occupied regions back from Russia

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — President Petro Porosh- Crimea, has killed more ny that obliged Ukraine to faction in parliament, said
Ukraine’s parliament on enko welcomed the new than 10,000 people since offer a broad autonomy to on Thursday while explain-
Thursday passed a bill that bill, saying it would help re- April 2014. the separatist regions and ing why the Minsk deal
aims to reintegrate the east- store control of the east by The 2015 Minsk peace deal a sweeping amnesty to the wasn’t mentioned.
ern territories currently con- “political and diplomatic helped reduce the scope rebels. In a terse statement issued
trolled by Russia-backed means.” of hostilities, but clashes Most Ukrainian political par- after the vote, Russia’s For-
separatists, and goes as far Russia warned, however, have continued and at- ties rejected that idea as a eign Ministry said that the
as to declare support for that the deal effectively kills tempts at a political settle- betrayal of national inter- bill is nothing “but a prepa-
taking them back by mili- the peace accords that ment have stalled. ests. ration for a new war.”
tary force if necessary. Ukraine is party to and that The new bill, passed by the “We can’t embed diplo- The foreign ministry said the
The bill describes the areas were supposed to resolve Supreme Rada after days matic and political agree- bill runs against Kiev’s com-
in Ukraine’s Donetsk and the deadly conflict. of raucous debate, con- ments that are prone to mitments under the Minsk
Luhansk regions as “tem- Fighting in eastern Ukraine, tains no reference to the change into the Ukrainian accords and further alien-
porarily occupied” by “ag- which erupted weeks af- peace deal brokered by legislation,” Ivan Vinnyk, a ates Ukrainians living in sep-
gressor country” Russia. ter Russia’s annexation of Russia, France and Germa- member of Poroshenko’s aratist-held areas. q