Helping to build a better-organized, fair and harmonious world: that idea lies at the heart of my conception of our country's role. Down through the centuries, France has provided answers to the great questions facing mankind. In continuing to do so, France is responding to a genuine demand, displaying leadership and influencing the course of events.

No one can act alone in the name of all and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules.

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

I am logically in favour of a referendum. It would be the only legitimate way.

For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance,"..."By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace.

As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same.

France will never forget the men who agreed to make the supreme sacrifice to liberate our soil, our country, our continent from the yoke of Nazi barbarity. It will never forget what it owes America, our eternal friend. Our two peoples have stood shoulder-to-shoulder in the brotherhood of blood spilled.