Giscard d'Estaing: Crimea's return in accord with history — Isabelle Laserre interviews Valery Giscard d'Estaing

Translator Tom Winter comments:

It is easy to see why Le Figaro did not publish this interview, even though the interviewer is foreign affairs editor of Le Fig: though her questions presuppose Le Fig's doctrine, and would hardly be different if Victoria Nuland were asking them, the answers of the former French president, with one exception, are quite contrary to the doctrinaire nature of the questions. Note, for instance, the question re breach of international law, which, like all the western media, ignores the finding of the International Court of Justice on Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence)

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Giscard d'Estaing: Crimea's return in accord with history
Extensive excerpt from Isabelle Laserre's interview with Valery Giscard d'Estaing, President of France, 1974-1981
Translated from French by Tom Winter

Politique Internationale - La Revue n°146 - HIVER - 2015