Egyptoblogue De Bagdad à Jérusalem : L'Orient indiscret François Hollande a raison de dire, comme il l’a fait lors de ses vœux au corps diplomatique jeudi, qu’il « ne suffit pas de répéter à l’envi qu’il faut parler à la Russie » pour régler la crise syrienne. « Nous ne cessons de le faire, a poursuivi le président de la République. Les problèmes ne disparaissent pas dès lors que nous en parlons, ce serait tellement simple ». Certes, la France parle à la Russie. Petit florilège de ce dialogue franco-russe. Alain Juppé, ministre des Affaires étrangères de Nicolas Sarkozy, compare le soutien russe à Assad à une « tache indélébile » sur la réputation de la Russie. C’était l’époque, renchérit un ambassadeur arabe à Paris, « où la Direction Afrique du nord-Moyen-Orient du Quai d'Orsay nous disait que nous allions isoler la Russie ». « On n’osait pas rire », ajoute cet ambassadeur : « comment un pays comme la France pouvait-il penser sérieusement pouvoir isoler un pays de la taille de la Russie », s’interroge ce diplomate.
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