By Pierre Guerlain
Truthout | Op-Ed - Saturday, 25 January 2014
Recently, French President François Hollande visited Saudi Arabia, and
commentators noted that France was trying to take advantage of a cooling
of relations between the United States and that country to, among other
things, sell weapons to the not very democratic kingdom. France also is
set to benefit from Lebanese arms purchases funded by Saudi Arabia. In
the Geneva negotiations between Iran and six countries, the foreign
minister of France, Laurent Fabius, proved the toughest negotiator and
claimed that Iran would violate the agreement. During a visit to Israel,
supposedly socialist Hollande was effusive in the expression of his
friendship for far-rightist Benjamin Netanyahu - although the latter had
publicly humiliated Hollande during a state visit to France in fall
2012. All the signs are there that French foreign policy not only
follows in the footsteps of the one chosen by pro-Bush Nicolas Sarkozy -
but has moved even farther to the right than US foreign policy.
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