{"id":6377,"date":"2009-02-05T11:41:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T16:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6377"},"modified":"2009-02-05T11:41:59","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T16:41:59","slug":"kouchner-milked-african-states-book-clinton-to-meet-french-counterpart-on-5th-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6377","title":{"rendered":"Kouchner milked African states: book | Clinton to meet French counterpart on 5th February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kouchner milked African states: book<br \/>\nHenry Samuel, <em>The Daily Telegraph<\/em>; with files from Agence France-Presse, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/news\/world\/story.html?id=1254859\">5 February 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>France&#8217;s crusading Foreign Minister has been accused of using his political clout to earn huge sums from African governments.<\/p>\n<p>In a new book, The World According to K, journalist Pierre Pean accuses Bernard Kouchner, the country&#8217;s most popular politician, of being a cynical opportunist who used his position to secure lucrative contracts from Gabon and Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/news\/world\/story.html?id=1254859\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Clinton to meet French counterpart on 5th February<br \/>\nIranVNC \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iranvnc.com\/floater_article1.aspx?lang=en&#038;t=3&#038;id=7646\">3 February 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Washington, 3 February (IranVNC)\u2014France\u2019s Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner will visit Washington on Thursday for his first meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, AFP reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis first working visit is taking place within the context of the new trans-Atlantic relationship that we are hoping for,\u201d France\u2019s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Eric Chevallier said in Paris, according to AFP.<\/p>\n<p>The two diplomats will discuss \u201cmajor global challenges and major international issues, in particular the Middle East, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Darfur and the DR [Democratic Republic of] Congo,\u201d he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iranvnc.com\/floater_article1.aspx?lang=en&#038;t=3&#038;id=7646\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kouchner milked African states: book Henry Samuel, The Daily Telegraph; with files from Agence France-Presse, 5 February 2009 France&#8217;s crusading Foreign Minister has been accused of using his political clout to earn huge sums from African governments. In a new &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6377\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1ER","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6380,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377\/revisions\/6380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}