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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.

Diplomacy and Administration.
At first glance, diplomacy seems yet another branch of administration. However, diplomats and administrators live in very different spheres, foreign to each other, often meeting but never coinciding. Administration is installed in hierarchical, closed and stable System, whereas diplomacy acts in a contractual and open System. This basic différence engenders many others which may affect as well the differences in functioning between the administrator and the diplomat or which may affect their psychology. These important différences should not hide the necessary complementarity between diplomacy and administrations.

Economie Diplomacy.
Any diplomacy has an économie component. But some administrations don't accept easily that this diplomacy be exercised by a member of the foreign service. Even if they are intellectually well equipped and politically supported, diplomats must learn to find their own field. Generally speaking, économie diplomacy covers three areas : bilateral diplomacy, mainly concerning the countries which receive loans to finance imports from France ; functional diplomacy, which covers sectors deemed important either because of French industrial and technological capacities, or because they are needed to provision vital sectors, or because of spécifie international régulations ; multilatéral diplomacy which tends to become more and more prevailing, with the globalization and liberalization of exchanges and the growing intégration of national économies in some of the planet's régions.