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Article: The rise and rise of a smooth operator
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 14, 1995
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THERE was a moment five months ago when the world discovered
there was more to Alain Jupp than a formidable brain and an
immaculately groomed exterior. As France's Foreign Minister, he had
just returned with Douglas Hurd, the Foreign Secretary, from
Belgrade, where they had tried yet again to enlist the help of
Serbia's President, Slobodan Milosevic, in brokering a Bosnian
peace settlement.
The Paris press commentaries were scathing. "Sell-out!" they
cried. Daniel Schneidermann, television columnist for Le Monde,
went so far as to compare Mr Jupp and Mr Hurd with Edouard Daladier
and Neville Chamberlain, Hitler's appeasers at Munich.
Asked on television for his reaction, Mr Jupp cast ...