The US recommended France to burn funds from USAID for around $ 10 million. The left appeals not to do it

On Saturday, the head of the French Party of Ekolists Marine Tondellier appealed to President Emmanuel Macron for intervention on contraceptives from the US worth almost USD 10 million, which are to be burned in France. Environmentalists want Macron to demand that the destruction of these means.

The Axios portal previously reported that contraceptives for women worth USD 9.7 million were to be intended for poor countries, but the US administration decided to destroy them. These funds are stored in Belgium and are to be burned in France. The US refused to transfer them or sell to assistance organizations.

The tondelier, to which other parliamentarians joined, sent an open letter to Macron in this matter. She appealed that the head of the state “would not, even indirectly, to a partner in reverse politics.” Parliamentarians stated that the US decision to destroy contraceptives is “an affront against the fundamental principles of solidarity, public health, sexual and reproductive rights that France has committed to defend itself.”

The environment of environmentalists demands from President Macron to demand the suspension of the destruction of these funds “as part of a joint initiative with the European Commission” and that he would support aid organizations that declared that they are ready to distribute these funds, such as doctors without borders.

Mathilde Panot, the head of the Parliamentary Fraction Fraction France, was also appealed to the prevention of contraceptives to Macron and Prime Minister Francois Bayrou.

The US Department of State, justifying the decision to burn, and not to give the funds to a number of provisions that are to prohibit the government to provide assistance to abortion to foreign organizations – said Axios. The Reuters agency reported that contraceptives will be burned in France, and this process will cost 167 thousand. dollars.

From Paris Anna Wróbel (PAP)

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