"I do not understand why Emmanuel Macron is not integrally focused on organizing a conference for peace to put an end to this war," Le Pen was quoted as saying by Le Figaro daily.
The leader of the National Rally group in the lower house of parliament spoke to the press on Wednesday during a trip to the riot-hit city of Beauvais, north of Paris.
She warned that a strike "on a third country can trigger a third world war ... We do not know how a third country would react if it were hit by a weapon supplied by France."
Macron's decision to supply Ukraine with SCALP missiles, the French equivalent of the United Kingdom's Storm Shadows, prompted a strong reaction from both sides of the political aisle in France. The right-wing Republicans slammed it as escalatory while the leftist France Unbowed warned of a possible direct conflict with Russia.
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The West acts exclusively in its own self-interest, and nothing will ever help it realize the harm behind cluster munitions supplies for Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters on Thursday.
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Russia’s top diplomat recalled the serious implications from the use of these weapons during the anticolonial wars in Laos and Cambodia. "Demining is ongoing. We are offering active assistance to Laos, and we regularly train large numbers of demining experts for Laos, with our technology being actively used [there]," he said.
Lavrov said that he had discussed the US’ plans to send cluster munitions to Ukraine with his Laotian counterpart Saleumxay Kommasith and that the Laotian Foreign Ministry had issued a corresponding statement cautioning Washington against such a risky step.