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Begin's initiative prompted immediate criticism from astonished governments abroad. French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson declared himself "dumbfounded" and charged that the move violated the 1907 Hague Convention that demands respect for local law in occupied territories-an implicit affirmation that sovereignty cannot be transferred in such cases "except in the event of insurmountable difficulties." In his strongest foreign policy statement to date, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called the move "a blow to the peace efforts" in the Middle East...
Italian Premier Giovanni Spadolini was visiting French President Francois Mitterrand when the speech was given. Said Spadolini, upon emerging from the Elysee Palace: "The Italian and French reactions are both favorable." Concurred French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson: "The zero solution is obviously advisable." Skeptics, however, dismissed the speech as a cynical attempt to score off the Soviets by making Moscow an offer it could not accept...
...what should be done about the crisis. Most countries are somewhere between Thatcher's monetarism and Mitterrand's Keynesian approach, a distance too great to allow for common policies. One of the more imaginative, if long-range, concepts is the plan of French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson, to press for sharp increases in aid to the Third World. This would generate demand for European products and therefore new jobs. Aid would mean trade...
...including its "imperialist interference" in El Salvador. He charged that the U.S. Rapid Deployment Force, designed for quick military action around the world, was "nothing but a policeman's billy club." Noting the contrast between Haig's blandness and Gromyko's bellicosity, French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson quipped that the talks had been given by "Mr. Haig and General Gromyko...
...Western Europe, reaction to the Fahd plan was generally favorable. The British government called it "positive," the West Germans thought it "interesting," and French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson declared that he attached "great importance" to the concept...