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Thank you very much for
your two kind comments.

DR VICKY Burchfield if I
pronounced correctly so

that I'm not POTUS or ladies and
gentlemen it's a great pleasure really and

a true honor for the French team
the winning team our distinguished and

outstanding consul general East team and
for

me to share this moment this
important moment with you today.

The Georgia Institute
of Technology is among

really the top universities and not only
in the United States but in the world.

Very well known in my
country in France and

as you all know probably better than I The
corporation the partnership that we have

established with the French with
the your university is just

amazing rock solid and
growing day after day and

as you kindly mentioned I had to
we had together two interesting

meetings this morning with the head
of you know Adel Di here and

then with your mayor and
the perspective of developing again

these partnerships are just just great.

Your interest focusing on ethics and
international relations.

I believe good.

STARTING POINT is the fact that from
Yorktown you know last year from Yorktown

a letter yet to the beaches of of
Normandy France and the United States our.

I mean each other their very
existence as free nations.

It seems a bit ambitious
to say that with that true.

I will tomorrow with our consul
general present the Legion of Honor

to an American veteran of World War two
I can tell you there is no more moving

experience for me as as ambassador
than to say on behalf of my country.

Thank you.

To somebody who sixty five years
ago landed on Omaha Beach or

you'd have beach to restore
my country's freedom and.

French American relations
are based on common interests for

sure we will come back to it but
mostly on shared common values and

that's really what makes our relationship
unique and if you think about it.

We are always the two nations we
have always been over the years

shoulder to shoulder.

To promote these values of.

You know freedom and human rights and
democracy that we are for

all our two countries.

After all two hundred years
ago gave to the world.

So it should come as no surprise.

That it was a Frenchman and
a very distinguished American reporter and

Roosevelt who together hand in hand wrote

the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
in the aftermath of World War two.

I see here and I hope you see here too.

An amazing symbol of what the friendship
between our two countries

is made of it's not the traditional
friendship among two nations.

It's really something.

Frenchy that is rooted in common
values and to come to your

you know theme and
topic to the common sense of ethics.

Against this background.

I have good news today.

French American relations have never been
closer and tighter than they are today.

If you think of the diplomatic and
security front.

We promote and
President Sarkozy for most but

it's tradition the tradition for the
French president a values based diplomacy

let me give you a few a few examples
of that as you know we are fighting

the two countries are fighting
together in the skies of Libya.

Why is it important because
first we prevented a blood bath

from happening in Benghazi the stronghold
for the Libyan rebels and that was really

a French initiative I must say at the time
to say we have to stand our planes to stop

get a fee fighters and to avoid the blood
bath that they had a few forces.

They say that they would go in every
house and kill basically everybody so

we had to intervene for
I would say ethnic moral reasons.

That's what we did.

We were able also in this respect
to get a Security Council

resolution based on what we called
last responsibility the partition

the responsibility to protect if it's
the right term in English and so

we were able in New York with
Security Council to get.

The backing of the other members
of the International Security.

He who simply could not say
no to a humanitarian based

operation conceived again to
avoid a huge huge bloodbath.

And today in Libya together French and
Americans with our other partners

what we are trying to do is precisely to
increase the military pressure on Gadhafi.

So that Caffie goes.

The sooner the better.

And so that we can together
create the conditions for

a democratic future in Libya.

It's not easy but I think it's
the first time in the I mean since

the Second World War that we were able
to gather to mount such an ambitious

operation which just dish those goals
based on truly human rights ethic.

Concerns.

Another example of course is Afghanistan.

We are fighting together in the mountains
of Afghanistan to track down

bin Laden's supporters and
to try to help stabilize the country and

promote a democracy
transition in Afghanistan.

It's not easy.

The same can be said about a good deal
where we the French took the lead you know

to promote again democracy
condition democracy collections and

now that we have a president
their president.

What are we want him to succeed and
we want to to support.

Action.

In the same vein.

We the two countries are in
the forefront of international

efforts to prevent Iran from
becoming a nuclear weapon states

that's one thing we are each
other's closest ally in

the fight against terrorism France and
the United States are each other.

Closest ally in the fight against
terrorism which we bring.

Among many other things we bring with us.

We the French.

Good knowledge of the radical
Islamist networks scene we were since

we were struck back in
the eighty's in Paris

from a terrorist extremist
terrorist from those networks.

We bring with us also a good knowledge of
certain regions like sad you know this

these countries in Africa where
terrorism is is growing and

so that that's another
important thing I believe and

we are joining efforts to
support the democratic

movement in the Arab world and here again
that is something quite unprecedented.

I was at the White House
a few days ago and

there is a total agreement
between Paris and Washington and

other capitals to say one basic but

very important thing which is
one our duty as leaders of

the democracy quarrelled if I may say so
used to promote the democracy movements.

Everywhere in the Arab world.

That's our duty.

That's our moral responsibility.

But also secondly it's our
political responsibility.

And.

We think that in the long run
on top of everything this

choice to support the democratic movement
will be consistent with our interest.

With our We'll political.

And so that's one very ambitious and
Dave are that

we have decided together hand in hand and
Washington reserve world and again.

Today and tomorrow.

The G eight what we call the G.
eight is taking place in Deauville France.

President Obama is there working side by
side with our president President Sarkozy.

To.

The other members of the G eight to
really support these democratic movements

by really supporting I mean
not only political support but

also an economic support promoting
jobs in Egypt in Tunisia and

the rest of the Arab world
promoting the nurse ship in

these count trees making sure
that you know new start up.

Are founded there and it's not easy.

We have to mobilize credits
financial resources.

So it's not easy but on this.

I can tell you that Washington and parries
President Obama and President Sarkozy

have really taken the lead you
know to avoid in a few months.

A few months from now but
there is a huge disappointment

in these in these countries and
that the democratic movements.

Pay the price.

Now just to say another word or
on our relationship

on the economic front to the partnership
between France and the U.S.

is booming just to give you one figure
with the French we have four thousand

French businesses investing in the
United States and supporting creating or

supporting in your country more
than six hundred thousand.

American jobs but I don't want to
be to be too too long on that.

Just to to come back on
the human rights issue and

I don't we don't want to be too long to
to you know to to be able to have a Q.

and A session and
to have to have an exchange with you.

Francis acts in this field
go beyond headline issues.

In many countries
including here in the U.S.

by the way we act with our YOU
partners to abolish the death penalty.

That's something we respectfully
disagree on with or American.

PRINCE.

We also to give you another
example advocate for

children in harm to conflicts in
the framework of an international

process called the Perry's Principles
on child soldiers and

we directly act in Africa to protect and
assist the victims.

We strongly support with
the French I mean the international

criminal justice from Cambodia.

To Europe to Africa.

We strongly support at home and
there is like Holocaust education and

more broadly mutual cultural
understanding initiatives from the non

nonprofit sector on many occasions
this and a very is an opportunity for

closer cooperation with
the United States France believes for

example that the UN Human Rights Council.

The UN Human Rights Council is a place
where we need to be and fight for

our values and beliefs and
we welcome the fact that after so

many years the United States came back
to the Council UN Human Rights Council

because we need the weight of America to

promote worldwide the the human rights.

So for the last two years working
closely together and with others.

We've been able to achieve breakthrough
and historic successes promoting for

example international
investigations in Syria

creating a permanent monitoring of
the human rights situation in Iran.

It was not easy.

Suspending Libya.

Also from this Human Rights Council.

Now just just a few words on the.

What we call the G eight.

G twenty.

Besides promoting the democracy
movements in the world.

We have Putting with
the French a lot of resources

in what we call the development aid.

Which we believe is part
of also of an ethical

approach of diplomacy and
just to give you one figure the E.U.

the European Union is providing today
sixty percent of development aid

to poorer countries worldwide sixty
percent so it shows that for us.

Europeans development aid is
really a moral responsibility

in the same vein forests and
environment attention

to environment to global fight
against global warming is part of

this ethical touch of
diplomacy in this respect.

We're working hard to
you know to promote and

to fight global warming on
the international scene.

This is why the European Union
has joined in the Kyoto Protocol.

I don't know if you're familiar with
this the Kyoto Protocol in one thousand

nine hundred six.

Also in the Copenhagen Accord
of two thousand and nine.

And the E.U. is now actively
engaged in the success of U.N.

negotiations on on climate change.

So I promised I would not be too
long in my introductory remarks.

One last thing to come to conclude and
to come back to my to my first point.

We should never forget again
that French American Friendship

is solidly rooted anchored in
our shared values the values

I mentioned a bit earlier and these
values makes no we can take about it.

These values they remain our best.

Guide our best to I would even
say our best moral compasses

to confront together the current or
challenges we face.

Thank you very much.

So not now is the tough part.

Q Any.

Of course.

It's a very good question because
the leaders in two thousand

agreed on a set of goals and
visual goals that we called the million

people then by the way
the Millennium right there.

Lukman goals and
of course in a period of economic

difficulty it's not easy to convince every

member of the community of nations to but
the right resources behind it.

Frankly that's what we
try to do in France to.

A part of the G.D.P.

that we put on development aid is
about zero point five percent.

And the goalie's zero point seven
The goal that we agreed on.

You know in two thousand.

It's zero point seven and
we are the second largest or

depending on the year the third largest
the nadir worldwide in terms of

development aid but it's true that many
countries are reluctant to do their

share the U.S. globally.

I mean is not doing so

well in terms of mobilizing financial
resources but of course to do.

Well the U.S. by its weight is
doing a key role in many sectors

of development a good example is
the fight against eight eight.

You know and the reform of the world
front you see in English against AIDS and

here we really partnered with our
American friends to make sure

that this form of the world fund.

It's the right term in English.

Has you know of resources to work and

we were able in this fight to
get some spectacular resources.

Another example is the fight
that we lead with the French to

have enough Eve resources what we call
innovative financing of development for

example we promote a very small amount

of international taxation
on financial transactions.

We think that for for ten thousand dollars

exchanged on the financial
markets that would be ethically

normal to get five cents out of it and if.

We only do that we would be
able year after year to add

thirty billion dollars
to development aid so

we think we have to be creative
on a day where people where we

are most of the industrialized states and
governments have.

No money are in deficit.

We have to be creative and to make
sure we have the proper resources for

development aid and more generally for
the other poor countries.

So this tax is an idea but
we went forward already with

the French with what we call
unique you needed a fund.

Where we say to the where we

say we'll put five to ten
to fifteen dollars for

every flight on Air from us or
other companies going through Paris and

through this process we were able
to get three hundred million

dollars every year so it works already
three hundred million everywhere

that we give to the Clinton Foundation for
example or other foundations

fighting against several
illnesses in Africa and elsewhere.

Here my message is of course it's
difficult it's very difficult to achieve

the goals that you mentioned but for
ethical and political reasons both.

We simply have no choice and it would be
too easy to say we are in deficit and

we are so we cannot do anything
we have to be creative and

to provide additional resources through
what we call innovative financing.

And of course it's difficult but
President Sarkozy and

the French side is very determined
on that and we will not give up and

we I'm sure one day we'll be able
to convince our American friends.

It's a very good question here.

I think it's important in a few words
to put things into perspective.

The euro since its inception in traction

in one nine hundred ninety eight
ninety nine pub has been and

remains a great success story it
protected Europe from the ups and

downs of the currency exchanges around

the world the euro by the way
is a very strong currency.

It's much stronger today than it
was again ten years ago when it

was created and so
it's a great success story.

It's very important to keep that
in mind the second point is that

there is no crisis of the eurozone at all.

There is a crisis.

Of some Kountry belonging to
the eurozone which for various reasons.

They are in trouble to get
their public deficits in order

the three examples you
mention Greece Ireland well.

Also the banking system let's say Greece
Ireland and Portugal are good examples for

that third point we collectively
the Germans the French the others

took the necessary measures to do
two things first to kill the fire.

If I may say so and to bring
additional resources huge resources

in order to make sure that we
are efficient in defending properly.

The euro confronted with the attacks
related to the situation

in the tree countries I mention that's
one thing but more importantly and

hear directly answer your question.

We took the initiative one year ago
with the Germans to establish for

the first time.

What we call the governance
of the euro zone meaning

a stronger coordination of our economy.

And fiscal policy because
until now we had a currency.

But we had no coordination almost
no coordination of our economic and

fiscal policies and
of course it is the recipe for problems.

We now confront the problem and

we found the solution I must say that
in ten months of the ten last month

we made more progress to establish
a true coordination of economic and

fiscal policies then over the ten last
years and it is a good lesson for Europe.

Every time there is a crisis and

since one nine hundred fifty seven
the creation of you of the European Union.

We've confronted many crisis but every
time we are able danger fully slowly but

surely to overcome it and that's exactly
was is happening with the euro and.

The euro now after the crisis.

It's much much stronger than it was and
backed by

nations able finally to better
coordinate our economy.

Fiscal social policies so
it's a huge progress that according to to

to us we will back again the the euro and
the I.M.F.

It's very difficult for
me to to comment on this.

We are in the process as you know of.

Discussing about the successor to
the Minix toss gun the managing director

of the I.M.F.
I believe that yesterday Christine Legarde

our finance minister said that
she she she was interested.

So here we are I cannot say
anything anything more.

But it's important that we have quickly.

Had a successor to the many
tours can we really up to to

also up to the job in
this difficult times.

It's a very good point.

It's a very good point and
to be clear on that clear.

Civilian of course policy is
an international thing and Fukushima made

the demonstration of it as you say with
the French we have eighty percent of our

electricity coming from if it's to
write term nuclear power generation.

Eighty percent.

So we believe in nuclear energy.

For real strategic reasons.

It increases our independence
visit the oil and

gas and the corresponding countries for
economic reasons and

provides us with energy
that is not expensive and

easy to provide and also for
environmental reasons but

the one of the only
ways to produce energy.

Very C O two free.

So that's in this respect
that is very important.

Now after the Fukushima catastrophe.

I think again are two countries by the way
the US and France where will to provide

our Japanese friends with some serious
help in terms of expertise protection

treatment of the red you
active waters on sides.

That's an example where
the French company.

Is very active.

So we are able to bring a lot of
expertise to Japanese friends.

The third think it is that based on
the new situation after Fukushima.

It seems to us the most
important thing we can do to

put it on the international
scene you're perfectly right.

The highest possible safety standards for

the nuclear industry and
it's the responsibility.

Again political but
also ethical responsibility of

the governments to go through
Aren't these to be determined and

to set the standards to highest
political safety standards worldwide.

So that every company nuclear company has

had has to comply and that's exactly
what we are going to try to do.

I don't know if we will succeed but
we're trying to do that with some G eight

meetings in June in Paris
to discuss the standard.

And.
Then we meeting at the A I E.

Your in Geneva to try have an agreement
also on these standards but

your question is very good.

We cannot look with a national
plan at nuclear energy.

It has become an international problem and
we have to manage it.

Correspondingly.

Thank you.

It's a tough question and
I have to be to be brief.

Of course but to make a long story short.

First we agree with
the American administration

to promote that our duty is to
promote a two state solution.

In the Middle East one state of
Israel of course being secure

in its borders and
what state of mind one Palestinian state.

We promote together
the two state solution.

Second agreement is to say you know
to get such a solution there is

only one way which is to
resume the negotiations

to resume what we call the peace
the Middle East peace process.

So to have the Palestinians and
these really around the same table.

With our strong backing the Americans the
Europeans and trying to get an agreement

on the most difficult issues like the
borders Jerusalem and so on and so forth.

Now the third point is that
based on this basic conviction.

We much Wellcome to President Obama's
speech in the last days

we think it was a very important that
America put a political perspective

on the table precisely to
avoid a sense of despair

a sense of things getting out of hand in
the Palestinian process and it's even

more important to trying to us because
of the situation in the Arab world.

You know you cannot have the Arab
world changing so rapidly and

the peace process remaining
basically in a deadlock so

we much welcomed the American
initiative and we Europeans and

French said very clearly
that we support and

will continue to support this
initiative hand in hand with America

to make sure that Israelis and
Palestinians resume their negotiations and

try to get closer to
an agreement we are not there.

Year we are not there yet.

It will be difficult but

there is a strong agreement between
Europeans and Americans on this today.

I can only support this comment.

Nothing in more is more important in
a relationship than to remember the basics

the core values that you know make our
relationship as unique as it is so

thank you for for your command and for
those of you who never went to France.

I recommend you go to France first go
to Paris to the Riviera to Paul Vols to

every part of the country and
you will be amazed.

Frankly you will be amazed of the sense of

gratitude profound gratitude
that continues to exist today.

In every generation older and
younger generations alike.

These are the our American
friends who twice in our history

went to restore our freedom.

You will be amazed this sense
of gratitude is just you know.

Prospering continuing and
will never never disappear.

Thank you sir.

On Turkey right.

Thank you for asking this tough question.

The widely shared view is that we open
Turkey's intrigue into the European Union.

That's what I read time and again in
the press and it's wrong and it's wrong.

France's position on that used to say one
very simple think Turkey is a huge country

a huge culture and
a huge country eighty million people.

If I'm not mistaken or so.

Around.

And we say that Turkey is coming into the.

Opinion would be a challenge
objectively a challenge for

the European Union at a time when the E.U.

is already in large to itself
to twenty seven countries and

is trying to digest if I may say so
the series of enlargements So

Francis message here is
to say Lemieux in media.

Better can be the enemy of the good
that would be the translation and

we have to think twice to not to
think twice to think carefully.

You know to make sure that
Turkey when the time comes.

May be able to find with the new the
relationship that is the most appropriate.

We don't rule out any
perspective we don't rule out.

Turkey's integration into the E.U.
we simply say wait a second.

It's really serious stuff.

We have also to educate our public
opinion zero in European Union.

And so
we simply say Think carefully to this

process that is you know not
overnight that contain or

it can take a few years before we decide
whether to key will be a full part a full

member of the your opinion or whether
TICKY will be linked to us to the E.U.

with the strategic cooperation and
we think it's too early to answer

this question and
that the jury's still out in a way.

Messy.

Now.

It's a good question.

It's very difficult to to answer of course
our responsibility faced to the situation

as it is I mean that we cannot change
our responsibility again needs to.

To promote by every conceivable
means political and media economy

financial the democracy movements in
the in in the world will it be easy.

No it can be will it be quick.

No it can be but our choice in conscience

strategy choice again is to
say that with a democracy we

are never stronger than when
our moral responsibilities

go together with our political
responsibilities when our values are in

line with our real politik you know and
we thing in the Arab world.

This is exactly what is
happening when there may be some

detour some bigger problems
in the coming months.

But we have to stick to the objective and
again to support the democratic movements

we have no other choice and quite frankly
in Paris and Washington on top of it.

This choice is really a deep
one from our leaders.

Visionary development.

OK.

Sure.

Again it's a difficult question because
you have three circles in terms

of development aid you have the help.

I mean the aid problem coming from
the governments the budget and

here we will continue to do the best
we can but the resources are limited.

If we want to gather to limit our deficit.

The second circle is innovating financing.

How can we mobilize resources not
necessary taxes by the way but

resources from our civil
society are not in order to

rise up to challenge and
to be able to increase our help.

We think we have no other choice.

That's why we continue against basically
everybody will continue to consider

that a tax on small tax on financial
transit transactions is avoidable.

If we want to again to resod to
the challenge now the third circle of

course is to get the private sector our
private sector investing in this country.

There was a union remember the the moto

true trade not aid we think quite
frankly it doesn't make sense.

It's not either or it's both.

We need both aid and trade.

We need both resources
from our governments and

resources from the an investment
from the from the private sector.

Now the difficult thing is to
encourage the private sector

investing in income trees.

They have basically no interest to invest
and that's where we have to be creative.

That's where in this country.

A foundation like I don't
make any politics here but

like the Clinton Foundation is doing
a very I believe important job

again to do to encourage some of
the American companies active here

to find their interest because
otherwise would not work investing in

the it's the right term third
world underdeveloped countries but

it's not easy but I think it's for the for
the purpose of clarity it's good to

have the three circles that
I just mentioned in mind.

It's it's a very good question.

I believe it's at the core of

the questions that I believe every head
of states ask himself every morning.

Seriously it's a very
good question because

when you have the responsibility
of a country.

Traditionally you had one
goal which was to promote

the interests of this country
that was a traditional diplomacy.

The balance of power rules of the game
of the nineteenth century that was it

a step further.

We and
especially our two countries added to that

to the promotion of national interest.

The promotion of the values that we share
that was another very important step

that makes the decision making process
more complex because you have you can have

some conflicting somebody and you have
today a third element which is for

every nation state to
be able to transcend.

National interests and
consistently with its own values

to have in view the global
interest the common interest of

humanity sorry to be a bit lyric on that
but that's really the challenge of today.

That's what we try to do for
example in the G eight in the G twenty.

And in this respect a very
interesting think we are opinions.

We got used to think that way
because the European process

is a process through which every day.

We the French the Germans
the Spaniards the others.

We have to put our interests on the table
and then to compromise to transcend

our national interests and
find common good common interest for

the community of the twenty seven
member states of the European Union.

So we are used to that we do
that every day we compromise.

We make some concessions and so
on and so by the end of the day

we have an agreement consistent with
the E.U. interest and we can go forward.

So what what we try to do
painfully within the E.U..

We have to do it you know on
the international scene and

at the level for example of the of
the of the Security Council.

The the body the international body.

That is the best equipped to.

Be the spokesman if I may be the spokes
person for this common interest well what

is the Security Council
the domain of security.

It has to say the law.

It has to put there to to set
the agenda to set the goals.

But your question is very interesting.

It's not enough to promote
national interest.

It's not enough to do it with the values

that we promote the same time we have
to keep in mind what is the interests

of the Planet of the humanities and
frankly this is not theory.

This is what we do every day in Europe but

it's also what we have to do almost every
day on climate change issues for example.

On climate change issues it's
simply impossible today to think.

Based on narrow national interest.

It simply doesn't work anymore.

And by the way the public opinion.

The social media in this respect our

objective allies of the democracies
because they make everything so

open that the promotion enough
strictly defined national interest.

Cannot work because your own
public opinion will criticize you.

If you stick to this defense
of national interest.

They want you to behave properly
as a citizen of the world so

that this fascinating interaction between
diplomacy in the traditional sense balance

of power and diplomacy in
today's world which is open to

everybody's mind and conviction and
that's make a world of difference.

Just great.

My answer is.

Wow I mean to try answer honestly to
your first question in the short run.

We can be losers in the short run.

We are aware that in
promoting democracy we

can have results that
are against democracy.

That's true of the game when you
have elections free elections.

You never know what will come out of it.

The how the AS but i example.

He's one.

The master example you know Hamas

example is another one in Gaza and
Gaza territories.

But in the longer run we bet.

That in promoting democracy.

We'll have a result at the end of
the day after many detours that will

be consistent with our objectives
in the long run we have to bet on.

Wise democracy.

On the fact that democracy
democracy movements.

From mode.

Why solutions and
it has to be true in the Middle East.

Anyway we have no other choice
by the way but that sincerely.

What we think of after some detours these
democratic movements a democratic country.

Will.

Will promote democracy.

You know basically so
that that's the first thing on on on

Africa's I don't want to
be too long on Africa.

There are three ways.

We tried to promote our
former colonies The first

is development aid we
mentioned it quite quite long.

The second is regional integration.

You know a very important way for
these countries in Africa for

example to be heard on
the international scene used to

refer to join their efforts and
to have the critical mass to wait.

On the international scene alone they're
not able to do that together they can do.

So regional integration is more and more
I would say at the top of our priorities.

The visa via Africa and
the third think in the same line

to make sure that African countries have
their say in the key international bodies

and that's why we promote actively the
enlargement of the U.N. Security Council.

And we promote actively The fact
that in our view Africa must have

its seat as a member permanent
member of the Security Council.

So I think in order to be a bit to
oversimplify and not to be too long but

there are three ways we try to
promote these countries and

to help them find their way their
say on the international scene and

we feel of course a moral and ethical
responsibility to help them because of

the fact that they were former
colonies no doubt about thank you.

A simple question thank you.

I'd like to make a few closing remarks.

If you don't mind first of all I
would like to thank the students for

such questions that helped generate
such an interesting dialogue.

And a special thanks to his Excellency
ambassador in law for his candor and

his insight.

It was truly a remarkable session and
I'm sorry that it has to come to a close.

I would like to thank consul
general consul general plan for

making this opportunity possible for
us to attack the whole

team again to leverage

your success your predecessor.

And the German ambassador here on
this very stage and it was a remark.

The opportunity and I would like to
share with you all that the predecessor

to Ambassador of the Lokpal is now heading
up the very innovative new external

European external action service which is
truly a remarkable revolution in European

institutional elements as they
are trying to they are establishing and

it's in action already in
a multilateral diplomatic corps.

So this is really remarkable and
they're under the excellent leadership of

Mr Hu He also had the great honor
of hosting in this very room so

I would also like to welcome a few other
guests and thank you for being here.

The consul general called police and
the consul general here.

Thank you on your console George Novak for
the Czech Republic.

I must be diplomats in our midst.

If not I would like to thank associate
dean John the five million colleagues for

being here to represent
the dean's office and

all the old college and
professors the fellow president.

I was proud of our campus in
France which celebrated its twenty

fifth anniversary last year.

Georgia Tech and

we're very pleased to again this fall
launching their France Atlantis program.

So watch for the fascinating lineup

that will be many of the events will take
place again in the Georgia Tech campus.

So we're thrilled to have such an active
and wonderful representation of France and

a promoter of French American relations
and all the maids So thank you very much.

It's been a tremendous and
thank you all for your for

your attention integrate your questions
and have a wonderful afternoon.