CRIF MEETS VILLEPIN

Roger Cukierman said “The French policy of struggle against anti-Semitism can become a model on the international level. “We asked Dominique de Villepin to set up a European liaising commission to act in the area of police, of education and of justice, like France did with the setting up of a cross-department commission. The minister assured us that his administration would implement with determination the actions lined out by President Jacques Chirac to firmly fight against anti-Semitism. Mr. Villepin added that his services interceded with Egypt, Lebanon and Syria to ask those countries to prevent the broadcast of anti-Semitic programs from their territory.”

While condemning the mapping of the separation fence between Israel and the Palestinians, Dominique de Villepin highlighted “The right of Israel to decide the appropriate measures imposed by the constraints of its own security”.

Asked by a reporter of Kol Israel, Israel’s Public Radio, to elaborate on France’s position on the separation fence, the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said France opposed the mapping of the separation fence but not its principle.