French President Emmanuel Macron has agreed to return the French ambassador to the United States after a conversation with US President Joe Biden amid a scandal over a submarine contract for Australia, reports The Gaurdian.

Specifically, Macron said he would send his recalled ambassador back to Washington next week, but there was no indication that the US or Australia would backtrack on their decision to work together on nuclear-powered submarines..

But Biden promised not to exclude Paris from key future defense decisions in the Indo-Pacific.. US to provide additional assistance to French-led anti-terrorist operations in the Sahel.

Biden and Macron agreed to meet in Europe at the end of October, likely at the G20 summit. October meeting is billed as "