Claude Cheysson

• Worldviews Turned Upside Down

In October 1962, as the Cuban missile crisis was coming to a boil, hurling everybody then alive to the edge of thermonuclear abyss, President Kennedy dispatched former Secretary of State Dean Acheson to Europe to tell our allies what was happening and what we were doing about it. In the Elysee Palace in Paris, Acheson offered to show the French president U-2 photographs of the Soviet missile sites. Charles de Gaulle, who was not known as an unalloyed supporter of American initiatives, waved the pictures aside. "Great nations such as yours," he said, "would not take a serious step if there were any doubt about the evidence at all.

... in July 1981, French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson was asked about a running dispute with th...

• The Washington Times
• January 31, 2007

• THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE GULF STATES: A GROWING PARTNERSHIP.

The development of international trade agreements between European Union members and Persian Gulf countries is chronicled. Topics include the creation of trade categories, such as lightly taxed basic goods and luxury items, and plans for a unified customs tariff by Mar 2001.

...As Commissioner Cheysson pointed out in a 1987 interview, this resistance r.... (21) "Exclusive Interview with Claude Cheysson, EEC Commissioner for North-South Relatio...

• Middle East Policy
• Vol. 7 Nbr. 1, October 1999