France Washes Its Hands Of Hariri Tribunal

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We knew all along that Nicolas Sarkozy was no Jacques Chirac, but this?

“Three years ago Bashar was embattled … he and the family came really under pressure after Hariri’s killing. Now their position has improved,” Robbins said.

More importantly, analysts say, the U.N. tribunal that could prosecute elements of the Syrian leadership its investigators identified as responsible for Hariri’s assassination has been made to look irrelevant.

“It’s a non-subject in French-Syrian relations,” a French official said. “France has nothing to say on the subject — it is the international community through the Security Council that has taken this matter in hand.”

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5 comments for “France Washes Its Hands Of Hariri Tribunal”

Tous des vendus….

Posted by Battal Agha | July 14, 2008, 10:29 pm
I need to disagree with you here
Maybe sarkozy sold us out, but france didnt, the french are enraged of sarkozy’s invitation to assad to the military prade.
Sooner or later sarkozy will listen to france if he want to get re-elected.

Posted by Rollen | July 15, 2008, 12:16 am
ahh it seems syria is very close to break a peace deal with israel, explains the sudden change of attitude of sarkozy
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=94117

Posted by Rollen | July 15, 2008, 12:20 am
Sarkozy is no ideologue. He is first and foremost a cynic. Remember that he is the first guy who flew to Moscow to congratulate Putin on his electoral ‘victory’ while the whole world knew the Russian election was a sham. A fw weeks later, he hosted Kaddafi in Paris to win some contracts for Dassault and Framatome. Sarkozy wants to nudge Syria towards peace with Israel and also wants to advance the club med trade project. Also don’t be surprised if America is involved and gave him a nod. The US and France have often pretended to follow different policies with France doing some things the Americans would like to do but can’t.

Posted by RebLeb | July 16, 2008, 5:11 pm
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