Official speeches and statements - September 7, 2017 - France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C.
So we’ve just reviewed the situation in great detail, following the cyclone which, during the day, has attacked - because that is indeed the appropriate term - those two islands in a devastating way.
We’ve also made contact already with several of our international partners and other countries that are victims of Cyclone Irma or will be in the coming hours. I’m thinking in particular of our Dutch friends, who share the island of Saint-Martin; I’m also thinking of, among others, the Dominican Republic and Haiti, with which we’ve already established cooperation, sending experts, technical - and tomorrow, if need be, humanitarian - cooperation to come to their aid; and finally perhaps, by the end of the week, Florida.
Thank you for your attention, and I remind you that this evening we stand by all those on our territory, a few thousand kilometers from here, who are destitute, stripped of everything, some having lost loved ones, and that we stand by their families in metropolitan France and elsewhere who are experiencing anxiety. (...).