Maybe he paid the price "errors of appreciation" of French diplomacy for events that changed the course of history in Tunisia, but Peter Ménat, the last ambassador of France [recalled Jan. 26] was a true diplomat. We met several times at his home in La Marsa or head of the embassy Avenue Bourguiba, we have sometimes asked him awkward questions.
He was doing with diplomacy, the smile as a bonus. In hindsight, we regret his departure. We would have liked prolongeât his stay among us. Would he have done, we would have had a demonstration under the streets of Tunis [thousands of people marched on February 19 to request the recall of Boris Boillon] and a thorn in less in diplomatic relations that the Franco-Tunisian go through a crisis these days, following an eventful stay in Tunisia of the Foreign Minister, Michele Alliot-Marie, MAM for short.
Yet the successor of Peter Ménat started well. Indeed, during a meeting with the press, and speaking perfect Arabic, Boris Boillon said: "I am here to write a new page in bilateral relations, which implies a new style, a new approach." The "new style" and the "new approach" took only a few hours to come to light.
During his second meeting with the press, "Boris", as the Tunisians are already calling is out of joint ["You think I'm in the little phrase moron?", He said among other things]. He did not like a question about the uproar caused by the journey of MMA in Tunisia and its clear position on the side of the dictatorship [see video below].
[But] it's not shouting and ranting in front of reporters that he will serve his boss, or even less, like the country it is supposed to represent. The fatal flaw of the successor of Peter is Ménat he did not measure the magnitude of changes in Tunisia a few weeks. Today in Tunisia, the press and speech are released, the right to protest insured, and whoever exceeds its limits, as highly placed as immune or it may be, can neither rely on its immunity, or to be covered by once the silences imposed by the dictatorial power.
Boris Boillon did not have time to "write a new page in bilateral relations," but he had ample time to disturb even at a time when Tunis and Paris seek to dispel misunderstandings and start the right foot. France and Tunisia have always had relationships developed. Some temporary crises have occasionally disturbed these relationships, but it must be said, serenity and harmony were the dominant features of the long history of Franco-Tunisian.
Today's crisis is neither serious nor lasting. It probably will fade soon. France is a sovereign country and no foreign country has the right to challenge the choice of one or other of his ministers. As diplomats, their choice by the Quai d'Orsay is linked to their acceptance by countries that receive them.
To see the sound and fury that have troubled the usual calm of the Embassy of France in Tunis yesterday, the Quai d'Orsay can not but ask whether Mr. Boillon is the person best suited to serve interests of France to Tunisia. The controversial interview of Boris Boillon: 
He was doing with diplomacy, the smile as a bonus. In hindsight, we regret his departure. We would have liked prolongeât his stay among us. Would he have done, we would have had a demonstration under the streets of Tunis [thousands of people marched on February 19 to request the recall of Boris Boillon] and a thorn in less in diplomatic relations that the Franco-Tunisian go through a crisis these days, following an eventful stay in Tunisia of the Foreign Minister, Michele Alliot-Marie, MAM for short.
Yet the successor of Peter Ménat started well. Indeed, during a meeting with the press, and speaking perfect Arabic, Boris Boillon said: "I am here to write a new page in bilateral relations, which implies a new style, a new approach." The "new style" and the "new approach" took only a few hours to come to light.
During his second meeting with the press, "Boris", as the Tunisians are already calling is out of joint ["You think I'm in the little phrase moron?", He said among other things]. He did not like a question about the uproar caused by the journey of MMA in Tunisia and its clear position on the side of the dictatorship [see video below].
[But] it's not shouting and ranting in front of reporters that he will serve his boss, or even less, like the country it is supposed to represent. The fatal flaw of the successor of Peter is Ménat he did not measure the magnitude of changes in Tunisia a few weeks. Today in Tunisia, the press and speech are released, the right to protest insured, and whoever exceeds its limits, as highly placed as immune or it may be, can neither rely on its immunity, or to be covered by once the silences imposed by the dictatorial power.
Boris Boillon did not have time to "write a new page in bilateral relations," but he had ample time to disturb even at a time when Tunis and Paris seek to dispel misunderstandings and start the right foot. France and Tunisia have always had relationships developed. Some temporary crises have occasionally disturbed these relationships, but it must be said, serenity and harmony were the dominant features of the long history of Franco-Tunisian.
Today's crisis is neither serious nor lasting. It probably will fade soon. France is a sovereign country and no foreign country has the right to challenge the choice of one or other of his ministers. As diplomats, their choice by the Quai d'Orsay is linked to their acceptance by countries that receive them.
To see the sound and fury that have troubled the usual calm of the Embassy of France in Tunis yesterday, the Quai d'Orsay can not but ask whether Mr. Boillon is the person best suited to serve interests of France to Tunisia. The controversial interview of Boris Boillon:
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