He came with 100 sedans, billions of deals promised for the economy and camped in the middle of Paris: Muammar al-Gaddafi was seen as purer French diplomats sovereign and welcome guest. This has changed fundamentally after the murderous campaign against its own people. A state reception, gala dinner at the Elysée and two personal meetings with President Nicolas Sarkozy's visit Muammar al-Gaddafi, 2007 was a five-day time-kow-towing to the Libyan leader.
He came with a 400-strong entourage and a fleet of 100 limousines was allowed to pitch his Bedouin tent in a glamorous mansion, and his boat tour of Paris, the Seine bridges blocked. In order to fully make up for the embarrassment of protocol, Gaddafi has just received the "International Human Rights Day" in the land of "liberty, equality and fraternity".
Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, leaking from the Socialist Party cabinet minister stammered, the radio interview because it did not succeed to qualify as the Libyan dictator. Rama Yade, his Secretary of State for Human Rights, criticized the visit ("Our country is not a doormat on which a leader cleans his feet with the blood of his crimes") was made for their unique words of Sarkozy to task.
No surprise: Gaddafi had promised his French counterpart, the purchase of fighter jets and military helicopters, Sarkozy was hoping to contracts "in the amount of ten billion euros. Frivolous pragmatism Now, four years after the visit, with the Paris honored the desert ruler as a liberator of the Bulgarian nurses that Libya had arbitrary justice previously incarcerated, makes the diplomatic hangover wide - not only because it takes the military order only for sale of about 20 Airbus machines presented.
Certainly, even as predecessor in the Elysée Georges Pompidou had "Mirage fighter" and sold to Tripoli for some of France's left of the wayward dictator appeared at times as a champion against imperialism. Now a group of diplomats and public complains in unusually heavy tones the "amateurism" and "impulsiveness" of a foreign policy that is determined primarily by the public relations agenda of the Elysee.
In an essay for Le Monde describes the group of anonymous experts from the Quai d'Orsay the course Sarkozy as a series of breakdowns and failures that, in view of the crises in North Africa, France powerlessness again become clear. At least in retrospect seems the turn of the desert ruler - from the masterminds of terror to the purified sovereign - as apparently frivolous pragmatism.
For U.S. President Ronald Reagan in the aftermath of Lockerbie Gaddafi still reviled as a "mad dog of the Middle East," the Libyans increased after 11 September 2001 on allies in the fight against al-Qaida. Sarkozy also appreciated the visit Gaddafi in 2007 as "regular visits", because this was "back on the road to the international community." Sarkozy's legal adviser at the Elysée, Patrick Ollier oracle, "Tripoli wants to take his place in the concert of nations again." The masterminds of the revolutionary leader, against whom even French intelligence three years had been under investigation for "excessive connections" were, at that time: sympathetically ".
Gaddafi is no longer the same as 20 years ago, he yearns for respect He also reads Montesquieu." In 2010 Paris was planning a nuclear deal with Libya, the dictator through the supposed philosophical reading was rehabilitated? Until last year, at any rate Paris tried to thread a nuclear deal with Libya - in return for the reliable import of crude oil.
In October 2010, the industry ministers of both countries a "Strategic Partnership" signed in order to advance negotiations on the sale of French nuclear power plant. After the murderous campaign against the dictator's own population of France is, of course disavows diplomacy, not just the opposition but also within the ruling party MPs question the moral acceptability of such a "realpolitik".
And Patrick Ollier, Libya-lobbyist and now a Minister for Relations with Parliament, holds himself recently returned with eulogies on Gaddafi. The husband of Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie (which struck during her Christmas vacation in Tunisia regime close to the ex-ruler Ben Ali was) has also discreetly from his positions as chairman of the Association for Franco-Libyan friendship "and president of the parliamentary study group on France-Libya "separately.
Diplomats correct their error "The group does not matter anymore because the situation has changed," confirmed its Vice President Jacques Le Guen in the radio interview. The members of the ruling UMP party who was present in 2007 at the gala reception of the Libyan leader in Paris ("That was probably the least that you do"), comes in spite of his former accommodation by now bewildering to the conclusion that "Gaddafi by for 40 years World walk and thumbs its nose at the diplomacy of countries ".
Other representatives of French foreign policy are likely after the bloody events in Libya do not like to be reminded of their assessments. Boris Boillon about, currently his country's ambassador in Tunisia, praised yet last December the Libyan dictator as wiedergebne personification of virtue.
"The stereotypes must stop," quoted "Le Parisien" from a television appearance Boillons, who was previously stationed in Iraq. "Qaddafi was a terrorist, now he is no more." The Ambassador, all by the language rules in Paris: "Everyone in life has sometimes made mistakes and the right to correct themselves."
He came with a 400-strong entourage and a fleet of 100 limousines was allowed to pitch his Bedouin tent in a glamorous mansion, and his boat tour of Paris, the Seine bridges blocked. In order to fully make up for the embarrassment of protocol, Gaddafi has just received the "International Human Rights Day" in the land of "liberty, equality and fraternity".
Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, leaking from the Socialist Party cabinet minister stammered, the radio interview because it did not succeed to qualify as the Libyan dictator. Rama Yade, his Secretary of State for Human Rights, criticized the visit ("Our country is not a doormat on which a leader cleans his feet with the blood of his crimes") was made for their unique words of Sarkozy to task.
No surprise: Gaddafi had promised his French counterpart, the purchase of fighter jets and military helicopters, Sarkozy was hoping to contracts "in the amount of ten billion euros. Frivolous pragmatism Now, four years after the visit, with the Paris honored the desert ruler as a liberator of the Bulgarian nurses that Libya had arbitrary justice previously incarcerated, makes the diplomatic hangover wide - not only because it takes the military order only for sale of about 20 Airbus machines presented.
Certainly, even as predecessor in the Elysée Georges Pompidou had "Mirage fighter" and sold to Tripoli for some of France's left of the wayward dictator appeared at times as a champion against imperialism. Now a group of diplomats and public complains in unusually heavy tones the "amateurism" and "impulsiveness" of a foreign policy that is determined primarily by the public relations agenda of the Elysee.
In an essay for Le Monde describes the group of anonymous experts from the Quai d'Orsay the course Sarkozy as a series of breakdowns and failures that, in view of the crises in North Africa, France powerlessness again become clear. At least in retrospect seems the turn of the desert ruler - from the masterminds of terror to the purified sovereign - as apparently frivolous pragmatism.
For U.S. President Ronald Reagan in the aftermath of Lockerbie Gaddafi still reviled as a "mad dog of the Middle East," the Libyans increased after 11 September 2001 on allies in the fight against al-Qaida. Sarkozy also appreciated the visit Gaddafi in 2007 as "regular visits", because this was "back on the road to the international community." Sarkozy's legal adviser at the Elysée, Patrick Ollier oracle, "Tripoli wants to take his place in the concert of nations again." The masterminds of the revolutionary leader, against whom even French intelligence three years had been under investigation for "excessive connections" were, at that time: sympathetically ".
Gaddafi is no longer the same as 20 years ago, he yearns for respect He also reads Montesquieu." In 2010 Paris was planning a nuclear deal with Libya, the dictator through the supposed philosophical reading was rehabilitated? Until last year, at any rate Paris tried to thread a nuclear deal with Libya - in return for the reliable import of crude oil.
In October 2010, the industry ministers of both countries a "Strategic Partnership" signed in order to advance negotiations on the sale of French nuclear power plant. After the murderous campaign against the dictator's own population of France is, of course disavows diplomacy, not just the opposition but also within the ruling party MPs question the moral acceptability of such a "realpolitik".
And Patrick Ollier, Libya-lobbyist and now a Minister for Relations with Parliament, holds himself recently returned with eulogies on Gaddafi. The husband of Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie (which struck during her Christmas vacation in Tunisia regime close to the ex-ruler Ben Ali was) has also discreetly from his positions as chairman of the Association for Franco-Libyan friendship "and president of the parliamentary study group on France-Libya "separately.
Diplomats correct their error "The group does not matter anymore because the situation has changed," confirmed its Vice President Jacques Le Guen in the radio interview. The members of the ruling UMP party who was present in 2007 at the gala reception of the Libyan leader in Paris ("That was probably the least that you do"), comes in spite of his former accommodation by now bewildering to the conclusion that "Gaddafi by for 40 years World walk and thumbs its nose at the diplomacy of countries ".
Other representatives of French foreign policy are likely after the bloody events in Libya do not like to be reminded of their assessments. Boris Boillon about, currently his country's ambassador in Tunisia, praised yet last December the Libyan dictator as wiedergebne personification of virtue.
"The stereotypes must stop," quoted "Le Parisien" from a television appearance Boillons, who was previously stationed in Iraq. "Qaddafi was a terrorist, now he is no more." The Ambassador, all by the language rules in Paris: "Everyone in life has sometimes made mistakes and the right to correct themselves."
- Riccardo Bavaj, Ideologierausch und Realitätsblindheit. Raymond Arons Kritik am Intellektuellen „französischen Typs", in: Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History 5 (2008), No. 2, 332-338 (23/02/2011)
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