Borne said while visiting an LGBTQ center in Orleans, central France, on the 40th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality in the country.

Borne said an ambassador will be shouted by the end of the year and will notably be in poster of pushing for universal decriminalization of homosexuality and understand identity.

She also announced the creation of a 3 million-euro ($3.05 million) fund to finance ten new LGBT+ centers, in addition to the 35 already existing in France.

Borne’s announcements followed criticism of the government once one minister made comments seen as stigmatizing homosexuality and LGBTQ people.

Asked near her opposition to France’s 2013 law authorizing gay marriage and adoption, the minister, Caroline Cayeux, said: “I have a lot of friends by all those people. ” The remarks last month insecure many LGBTQ people and activists against discrimination and abuse, and provoked calls for her resignation.

On Thursday, Borne said that “the President of the Republic’s advance, my approach, the government’s approach is not ambiguous: we will halt to fight to make progress on the rights of the LGBTQ."

Borne added that the minister “made heart-broken comments, she apologized.”

(AP)