The Charles de Gaulle Foundation, l'Institut du Monde Arab (the Institute of the Arab World) and The University of Paris-Sorbonne (PSUAD) yesterday organized a French-Arabic colloquium in Abu Dhabi titled 'The General de Gaulle and the Arab World'.
The 3-day event takes place at the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR) under the patronage of H.H Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, and under the sponsorship of former French President Jacques Chirac.
Present at the opening ceremony were Dominique de Villepin, ex-Prime Minister of France, H.H Sheikh Hamid Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Director of Abu Dhabi Crown Princes' Court, the French Ambassador to the UAE, Prof. Jean-Paul BLED, Professor of Contemporary History at Paris-Sorbonne University and President of the Scientific Committee of the Conference, and a number of officials and academics.
The symposium will examine the relationship between General de Gaulle and the World Arab beginning with his initial stay in Lebanon at the beginning of the 1930's up through his departure in 1969. The major topics to be explored by experts coming from France and MENA include the Second World War; the Algerian conflict and the decolonization; the rapprochement with the Arab countries from 1962; the 6 Day War and the distance with Israel and the Assertion of an Arab Policy. – Emirates News Agency, WAM
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