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Maurice Gourdault-Montagne: "Faced with Russia, let's get out of the dynamics that can lead to war"

2022-03-25T19:17:15.398Z


TRIBUNE - The former secretary general of the Quai d'Orsay considers the situation arising from the invasion of Ukraine to be exceptionally serious. It invites us to go beyond the legitimate emotion experienced in view of the suffering of Ukrainians to take into account the Russian imagination and mentality.


Former diplomatic adviser to Jacques Chirac as President of the Republic from 2002 to 2007 and former French ambassador.

Three summits have just been held in Brussels with the European Union, NATO and the G7 in the presence of the President of the United States.

A commitment to solidarity with Ukraine was vividly manifested there, whose populations thrown onto the roads seek refuge in our countries and which will have to be rebuilt one day.

It was a question of new sanctions against Russia and also of arms deliveries to Ukraine.

The most sensitive question was how to react to the threat of the use of chemical weapons.

It was answered by a threat of response

"of the same nature"

which confines us to strategic ambiguity.

Certainly a great unity of Westerners has been displayed, whose interests are however very different.

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Source: lefigaro

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