"Today we say clearly that the choices and aspirations of the Tunisian people must be heard." In the first interview that he spends on defense issues, the new Minister Alain Juppe confirmed in Le Monde, turn on the wing operated for forty-eight hours by the French executive facing a popular uprising in Tunisia and from President Ben Ali, supported by Paris until the end."For all Europeans and Americans, Tunisia experiencing a major economic development and had all the appearances of political stability. A middle class emerged, the status of women improved, a major effort was focused on education. Without perhaps we have underestimated the degree of frustration of the public response to a police state and dictatorship, "Mr.
Juppe. Partnerships, pooling of resources: on all subjects, the minister emphasized that France can no longer act alone. Minister rejects any "strategic shift" to terrorism in the Sahel. He refuses to talk about war, after the French military intervention that failed, Mali, to free two French hostages kidnapped by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
"France intends to signal its determination to deter acts of terrorism," he admits, however. But it "should not only lead this battle, which primarily concerns the countries of the region." The funeral of Vincent Delory and Antoine de Léocour held in the presence of President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday, January 17 Lincel (North).
Mr. Juppe evokes more broadly partnerships of France in Africa, and announces an evolution of Operation Sparrowhawk in Chad to "bilateral cooperation". In view of the situation in Afghanistan, it should be "step up our efforts" to keep the schedule, set at 2014, a transfer from NATO to the country's security to national forces.
It calls for a revival of European security policy, but sorry about this, that the High Representative of the Union, Catherine Ashton, has not yet responded to the initiative undertaken with Germany and Poland on the subject: "We have no answer. We are expecting one." Finally, he contends that the ongoing reform of the armed forces will be for him "as a priority in 2011": "I want us to go further in the field of dialogue, difficult subject in armies," he announced this opportunity.
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