I see it as a growing desire to found politics on strong ethical principles. An aspiration of Nations to which clear responses must be found, otherwise we risk disaffection with the State and the undermining of democracy. The claims made by the Jewish organizations are of this type, which gives them an uncontestable legitimacy. The strength of these claims which have been effectively relayed is the proof that this community has recovered its belief in the rights and dignity which were so horribly denied by Nazi barbarism. Many countries are currently experiencing this.
Transparency is and remains the crucial requirement whether at domestic or external level.
So people can understand us, we have to pursue a coherent policy and not use different yardsticks for each case. I think that all democracies aspire to this honesty. I can see this attitude behind a series of significant breakthroughs, based on a public opinion that accepts neither the impunity of dictators and perpetrators of genocide, nor inhuman weapons, nor contempt for individual and collective human rights. Dictators and those guilty of genocide must be tried before an International Court recognized by all States. The 1998 Rome meeting made it possible to lay the foundations for such a Court which fully meets the expectations of the world's peoples.