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!
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.
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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.
Naturellement!
Thanks for the translation.