PARIS, Sept. 7, 2021 (Nouvelle Solidarité) – Yesterday, Renaud Girard, a senior editorialist of the French daily Le Figaro, called on President Macron to reopen the French embassy in Afghanistan.
“It is not by being absent from Kabul that we will best brandish the banner of human rights in the face of the Afghan population. Diplomacy is more about talking to your opponents than to your friends. As the founder and first president of our Fifth Republic, General de Gaulle offered an excellent principle to his diplomacy: France recognizes states, not regimes. For the past two decades, we have tended to forget this sound principle. Is it because we are sometimes too much aligned with American foreign policy? Is it because we have not understood that being a good and solid ally does not mean becoming an aligned vassal?
