Sarkozy would go to Beijing for the Olympic Games

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Nicolas Sarkozy will indeed be in Beiing on August 8 of this year to assist the opening ceremony of the 29th Olympic Games. It is in any cases what assert several media: RMC, BFM or Le Monde leaning on declarations of the circle of acquaintances of the President.
Further to the incidents which enameled the route of the Olympic flame and in the repression increased in the Tibet, Nicolas Sarkozy had threatened not to go to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games and conditioned his presence in the resumption of the dialogue between China and Dalai Lama. Some contacts having taken place at the end of June, the president is not right not to go to the ceremony.

In a press release on Friday, the presidency of the Republic announces that Nicolas Sarkozy will give his decision during the next G8 summit, in Japan, "at the beginning of the week next", at the conclusion of the interview which he will have with the Chinese president Hu Jintao.

Sarkozy should meet the Dalai Lama

20minutes.fr Sarkozy in China for the Olympic Games image:41402:1::0

Other point which plays in the Elysian decision to delay: as serving president of the European Union, Sarkozy has to ask for the opinion of the other leaders of the EU.

But the decision seems settled. According to the journal Le Monde. Nicolas Sarkozy would esteem to have made the maximum for the Tibet and would henceforth like to return to a more traditional diplomacy, while China shows signs of opening to Taiwan. The President would also get ready to meet the Dalai Lama, during the visit of this last one in France, in August.
Nicolas Sarkozy will not be the only present President in this ceremony. George W. Bush announced on Thursday evening that he would also attend the ceremony with his wife, Laura.