In 1986, he became the special counselor near the ministre français de la Défense for the military relations with the African countries having signed defense accords. He became the counselor of the several African Presidents : (Mobutu Sese Seko, Denis Sassou Nguesso and Félix Houphouet-Boigny) He went several times to Iraq before the Invasion of Kuwait in 1991 to sustain the promotion of French armament and French savoir-faire to the regime of Saddam Hussein.