France Takes Swipe at Rumsfeld

World | June 15, 2003, Sunday // 00:00

French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie has sharply criticised her US counterpart Donald Rumsfeld's view of the world. In a newspaper interview coinciding with the opening of the 45th annual Paris air show, Alliot-Marie said Rumsfeld espoused a US-centred vision. "The American defence secretary believes the United States is the only military, economic and financial power in the world. We do not share this vision," Alliot-Marie told Le Monde. Her comments came after news that the American defence department - along with many US aerospace firms - had reduced its participation in this year's show in apparent retaliation for French opposition to the war in Iraq.

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