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One of my first engagements was in favor of freedoms in Chile, the era of General Pinochet and Salvador Allende. Attaches to human rights, I am committed to this fight. Can I bring my stone, modest, to the fight against apartheid. First as activist, then as actor. Between 1984 and 1986, when I was Prime Minister, France was in the vanguard of this struggle, even if it was somewhat forgotten today. At the time, we had a fight us with some of our allies, including Margaret Thatcher was going up to pretend that apartheid 'possible to prevent blacks kill each other!' I remember in particular a conversation with her, at 10 Downing Street: thanks to the real charm that characterized her, she tried to convince me that this fight leads by France against the South African power - we wanted an embargo on coal - was bad. I also took a position strongly, when in Poland the 'delicious' general Jaruzelski against Solidarity struggled ... Still the rights of the human person and freedoms. The above, I did not change. Adapted from the source document.

Beim Angriff auf das amerikanische Konsulat in Benghazi starben am 11. September zwei Personenschützer und zwei amerikanische Diplomaten, der amtierende Botschafter für Lybien sowie der IT-Experte Sean Smith. In ihrer Trauerrede zeichnete Außenministerin Clinton zunächst den beruflichen und privaten Werdegang ihres Mitarbeiters nach, um dann einen bemerkenswerten Satz hinterher zu senden: "And that's just in this world, because in the virtual worlds Sean helped create, he is also being mourned by countless competitors, collaborators and gamers, who shared his passion.".

At the core of most of the more recent studies of the German Democratic Republic's foreign affairs, are matters of sovereignty, (in)dependence regarding the Soviet Union & the hesitant steps to overcome this, while at the same time gaining respect & trust from the Western world. Regarding this theme, the article discusses three books: The Foreign Politics of the GDR 1976-1989: Strategies and Borders by Benno-Eide Siebs (Die Aussenpolitik der DDR 1976-1989: Strategien und Grenzen, Paderborn 1999); Alternative German Foreign Politics? by S. Bock/I. Muth/H. Schwiesau (eds.) (Alternative deutsche Aussenpolitik? DDR-Aussenpolitik im Ruckspiegel, Munster 2006); & Foreign Politics within Limited Borders The GDR in the International System 1949-1989 by Hermann Wentker (Aussenpolitik in engen Grenzen Die DDR im internationalen System 1949-1989, Munich 2007). O. van Zijl