France has pulled out of defence talks with the United Kingdom, the latest escalation of a serious diplomatic row over a new security deal between Britain, the United States and Australia.French defence chief Florence Parly had been scheduled to hold a bilateral meeting this week in London with her British counterpart, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, and address an event held by the Franco-British Council.But the council’s co-chair Lord Ricketts, a former British national security adviser and ambassador to Paris, said the gathering had been “postponed to a later date”, the BBC reported on Monday.
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