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| Embarrassed France backpedals support of Ben Ali | ||
| 2011-01-21 | ||
Paris -- "There is no love; there are only proofs of love," the French poet Pierre Reverdy once wrote.
So says Moncef Cheikh Rouhou, a prominent Tunisian investment banker and media group owner forced out of the country in 2000 over issues related to censorship and physical threats from the Ben Ali regime, and who is mentioned in Arab expatriate circles as a possible future finance minister in a new government there. French support of Ben Ali and French silence on the shootings of Tunisians has brought a week of recriminations in Paris. France now admits it was out of touch with Tunisian public opinion, has barred Ben Ali from coming here, and says it is freezing the ousted president's assets. | ||
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 TOPIX > {Christian Science Monitor] DEMOCRACY COMES IN WAVES {Regional], AND TUNISIA'S "JASMINE REVOLUTION" BE THE ARABS' TURN. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-01-21 22:45 |
| #1 FRENCH IMMIGRANT WORKERS versus * YONHAP > NORTH KOREA OFFERS TO SEND 2000 FEMALE WORKERS TO CHINA: SOURCES, ostensibly to work in laminated timber companies based in NE China. and * WMF > [North? Peninsula?] KOREA HAS BECOME CHINA'S SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE FOR TRADE WID DEVELOPED COUNTRIES. Personally, I think France's backpedaling has more to do wid MRS. ALI'S ALLEGED RAID ON THE TUNISIAN GOVT. COFFERS, which IMO may be indirectly related to the US DECISION TO REVOKE THE VISAS OF HAITIAN OFFICIALS??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-01-21 22:42 |