LEFT: French President Emmanuel Macron in Berlin, January 10, 2017. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch; RIGHT: US President Donald Trump in his Trump Tower office in New York City, US, May 17, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

 

US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron called British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday to congratulate her after her Conservative Party won the most seats in a national election.

May, whose party fell short of winning a majority in the parliament, has said she intends to lead a minority government backed by Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party.

"French President Emmanuel Macron called to congratulate the Prime Minister, and said he was pleased that she would continue to be a close partner," a spokesman for May's office said in a statement.

"They agreed that the strong friendship between our two countries was important and would endure," the statement added.

The spokesman said May and Trump had also agreed to continue the close cooperation between their two countries.

Trump stressed his commitment to the "special relationship" between the US and Britain and said he looked forward to working with May "on shared goals and interests in the years to come", the White House said in a statement.