France gaining new scope in Middle East
Commentary by Renaud Girard
With Nicolas Sarkozy's accession to the presidency and Bernard Kouchner's to the Quai d'Orsay [Foreign Ministry], is France gaining new scope to boost action for peace in the Middle East?
Paris enjoys two major assets in the region, one of them old, the other new. The former is the fact that France had the wisdom and courage, from September 2002 through March 2003, to do its utmost to try to prevent the disastrous Anglo-US military venture in Iraq. Its undiminished credibility makes France the Western power best placed to perform an honest broker role in all the Middle Eastern crises.
However paradoxical it may seem, its second asset is the esteem enjoyed by both Nicolas Sarkozy and Bernard Kouchner in the United States.
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