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Laurent Fabius

Former Socialist prime minister (1984-1986) and Minister of Finance (2000-2002), Minister of Foreign Affairs (since 2012).

23 articles

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Blinken, Abadi, Fabius on Daesh

by Haïder al-Abadi , Laurent Fabius, Antony Blinken

Paris (France) | 2 June 2015

FOREIGN MINISTER FABIUS: (Via interpreter) (In progress) – Iraq, and a representative for the United States of America, Mr. Blinken, in the absence of Mr. Kerry to report on the work we’ve done this morning and over lunch. This press conference won’t be too long because the prime minister from (...)

After Kobane, saving Aleppo

by Laurent Fabius

Paris (France) | 3 November 2014

Stopped at the last minute in Kobane, the terrorist group known in the Arab world as Daesh — we do not use Islamic State, because the group is neither truly Islamic nor a state — is dispatching its murderers to other points along the Syrian-Turkish border. And at the end of the road lies (...)

Laurent Fabius at The Brookings Institution

by Laurent Fabius

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 13 May 2014

«France in an Age of Geopolitical Upheaval»
Thank you, Mr. President, for your kind introduction. It’s a pleasure to be in Washington, one of the very few cities that, surprisingly enough, I had not visited on my own since I became Minister of Foreign Affairs two years ago. The reason is (...)

Laurent Fabius at the American Jewish Committee

by Laurent Fabius

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 12 May 2014

Mr. President, Ladies and gentlemen, Distinguished friends,
After visiting France, Mark Twain said this: «In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those people understand their own language». I hope I won’t be in Mark Twain’s situation after (...)

Laurent Fabius’s opening speech at the Geneva 2 Conference

by Laurent Fabius

22 January 2014

Secretary-General, Mr President, Ladies and gentlemen,
The solution to the Syria tragedy can only be political. The purpose of this conference, known as Geneva II, is political and it’s clear. It is very well set out in the letter of invitation from Mr Ban Ki-moon, whom I congratulate on his (...)

“The Right Has a Plan C for a Post-Yes Vote”

by Laurent Fabius

25 May 2005

I am impressed by the interest of the French in the European debate and hope that this translated into a high voter turnout. I’m sorry that the traditional left electorate-workers, employees, the middle class, a great part of the youth-is opting more for “no” while, at the same time, having a (...)