According to readouts of the call, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and French Foreign Minister Jean‑Noël Barrot discussed three main issues: (1) the urgent need for a humanitarian ceasefire in Sudan; (2) continued cooperation on diplomatic efforts to end Russia’s war against Ukraine; and (3) continued implementation of President Trump’s peace plan for Gaza.
Public summaries of the call do not mention a formal joint statement or a new binding agreement. They say the two ministers “agreed to continue cooperation” on diplomacy to end the Russia‑Ukraine war and “agreed to continue implementing President Trump’s peace plan for Gaza,” which signals political alignment and ongoing coordination rather than a specific new treaty or detailed joint action plan announced that day.
For this kind of bilateral phone call, the U.S. State Department usually issues a short written “readout” or press release rather than a full transcript. These are normally posted in the State Department’s online press releases and readouts, often under the Office of the Spokesperson section (for example, the mirrored text of this call is labeled a “Readout, Office of the Spokesperson”). Full, word‑for‑word transcripts are uncommon for routine calls unless they are major summits or public events.
“Secretary Rubio” refers to Marco Rubio, who is serving as the 72nd United States Secretary of State. He is an American politician, attorney, and diplomat, previously a U.S. senator from Florida (2011–2025), and as Secretary of State he is the chief U.S. foreign‑policy official and the head of the Department of State.
The “Exception: forbidden” message indicates a technical or access‑control problem on the State Department’s website (for example, a permissions or configuration error on that specific URL). It is not something a user can bypass directly. In practice, the same content can often be accessed via alternative copies of the press release (for this call, the full readout text is mirrored by outlets that republish State Department releases), or by waiting until the State Department fixes the underlying web issue or posts a stable version in its regular press‑release archive.
Yes. Although the original State Department page is returning an error, multiple outlets that routinely republish official U.S. releases carry the same readout text, including GlobalSecurity.org and Kuwait’s state news agency KUNA, both attributing it to the U.S. State Department. These provide the key details of the call while the primary state.gov page is inaccessible. No detailed French Foreign Ministry readout of this specific call appears publicly available as of now.