00:00It's an honor for all French sailors to be welcome here today in Manila and Subic Bay.
00:11This port visit is the first time for the French carrier strike group and I'm grateful
00:17to the Philippines authority for allowing our visits.
00:21All these interactions goal is not only to strengthen our interoperability but also to
00:27demonstrate our commitment to maintain regional stability and promote a free, open, safe and
00:34peaceful Indo-Pacific region.
00:36There's nothing that is declared against anybody.
00:41As the ambassador said, we are mostly here because there is a free and open area to sail
00:49in and we are here basically to use this right of common space to make sure that this space
00:57stay common.
00:59Knowing the rise of tensions, it's even more important to uphold international law and
01:06the freedom of navigation, be it at sea or in the air.
01:10And what we are here also to show is that we continue whatever the situation all over
01:18the world, we continue to conduct those operations and those deployments even very far away from
01:29main France because we have this Indo-Pacific strategy.
01:34So basically, we are standing with the countries and the Philippines being one that share with
01:42us the values of international law and particularly the international law of the sea.
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