The French Foreign Ministry summoned the Chinese Ambassador to France, Lu Shano, this morning. The French Foreign Ministry posted a brief announcement on its official website today that the Chinese ambassador to France was summoned to the French Foreign Ministry this morning to be informed of the French side’s grievances in person. Earlier in the day, French Deputy Minister for European Union Affairs Bonnet had said in an interview on French domestic radio that France was waiting for the Chinese ambassador to be summoned to the Foreign Ministry as soon as possible. Earlier, the official website of the Chinese Embassy in France said that Lu Shano could not go to be summoned the day before due to scheduling factors.
According to an AFP news release from Paris late this afternoon, the French Foreign Ministry issued an announcement that the Chinese ambassador to Paris was summoned to the French Foreign Ministry on Tuesday.
According to the report, the French Foreign Ministry addressed the Chinese ambassador about “grievances” arising from a series of statements he made to French researchers and parliamentarians.
According to a French Foreign Ministry announcement, “We summoned Ambassador Roussano this morning, at the request of Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, to inform him of all our grievances against him.”
Neither the message nor the French Foreign Ministry announcement mentioned the details of the contents of the Chinese ambassador’s summons. So far, the Chinese Embassy in France has not yet published a response to the summons on its Twitter site.
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