Sarkozy on NATO

Video of the French president’s address to the “Foundation for Strategic Research”:http://www.frstrategie.org/ is “here”:http://www.elysee.fr/webtv/allocution-lors-du-colloque-de-la-fondation-pour-la-recherche-strategique-la-france-la-defense-europeenne-et-l-otan-au-xxieme–video-3-1044.html.

If there are any good bits for nuclear wonks, I’ll try to post the English text when I see it.

In the meantime, dig those hand gestures.

Update: Reader Ferdinand, with sharper eyes than mine, has spotted the “document complet”:http://www.elysee.fr/download/?mode=press&filename=11.03__Conclusion_colloque_Defense_Otan.pdf. Thanks, Ferdinand!

2 thoughts on “Sarkozy on NATO

  1. Ferdinand

    This is what I found in a quick search of the pdf:

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    Naturellement nous allons conserver notre dissuasion nucléaire indépendante.

    […]

    On peut avoir un dialogue sur la dissuasion, on doit
    avoir un dialogue sur le désarmement, mais la décision nucléaire ne se partage pas.

    :

    Naturally we will maintain our independent nuclear deterrent.

    […]

    We may have a dialogue about deterrence, we must have a dialogue about disarmament, but the nuclear decision cannot be a shared one.

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    The translation is mine, and comes with no guarantees.
    By the way, thanks for all the interesting posts so far, Joshua.

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