Doctors Without Borders founder now Foreign Minister of France

Interesting tidbit I picked up over at Jeff Weintraub:
[New Foreign Minister] Kouchner, on the other hand, is a veteran humanitarian and human-rights activist, a founder of Doctors Without Borders, the first UN Commissioner in Kosovo after the 1999 war, a strong proponent of international measures to prevent genocide and other mass atrocities, and one of the few important figures in French politics who supported serious international action against Saddam Hussein & his regime (long-time clients of France).
I don't know much about French politics, but this seems to signal that France will be taking international human rights issues very seriously.

Comments

Boz said…
It will be interesting to see if this idealism really does take concrete form in French foreign policy or if its just talk as usual. Ironically though, Sarkozy has hinted that he might want French troops out of Afghanistan.

Boz
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