President Emmanuel Macron during a bilateral meeting with Donald Trump at the United Nations headquarters in New York, September 23, 2025. JULIEN MUGUET FOR LE MONDEFor the occasion, the French president treated himself to a few glasses of Lagavulin, his favorite whisky. The atmosphere was festive aboard the presidential A330 plane on Wednesday, September 24. Returning from the United Nations General Assembly in New York, President Emmanuel Macron was jubilant in front of his closest advisers. "Everything still has to be done," said Ofer Bronchtein, Macron's special envoy for the Middle East, emphasizing that France's symbolic gesture was only the first step in a long process aimed at reviving the two-state solution.