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Article: CSCE Summit: Paris denies accusation of appeasement
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 7, 1994
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Infuriated at being branded a Munich-style appeaser of
aggression, France's Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe, hit back at his
accusers over Bosnia yesterday and said history would prove him
right. "I prefer to go to Belgrade, Budapest and elsewhere, to try
to move things forward and convince the different parties, than to
sit on my arse in Paris writing impassioned articles that lead
nowhere," Mr Juppe said in a French television interview.
Quivering with emotion, he added: "History will decide where
courage lies and who is being demagogic."
Mr Juppe was stung by assessments in the French media of the
visit he made to Belgrade last Sunday with the Foreign Secretary,
Douglas Hurd. Commentators ...