ROME (HRNW) – The UK government on Sunday contradicted French claims that both sides had agreed to defuse a row over post-Brexit fishing rights, insisting it was up to Paris to back down.
“If the French government want to come forward with proposals to de-escalate the threats they have made, we would absolutely welcome them,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson s spokesman told reporters.
“Our position has not changed,” he said, after Johnson met French President Emmanuel Macron earlier Sunday for about half an hour at a G20 summit in Rome.
Macron s office said afterwards the leaders had agreed to work on “practical and operational measures” to resolve the dispute in the coming days.
They were united on the need for a “de-escalation” with concrete action to come “as soon as possible”, it said.
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