Isolated and limited vision problem.

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.

What is at stake is how to answer the potential threat Iraq represents with the risk of proliferation of WMD. Baghdad's regime did use such weapons in the past. Today, a number of evidences may lead to think that, over the past four years, in the absence of international inspectors, this country has continued armament programs.

Isolated and limited vision problem.

Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament.

The Kyoto Protocol...the first component of an authentic global governance.