Condi écoute les remarques de Jacques Chirac

French President Jacques Chirac, right, talks to Secretary Rice January 25, 2007.
Cela ne change rien à la determination des USA sur le problème du nucléaire Iranien!

Secretary Rice arrives in Tel Aviv.

Secretary Condoleezza Rice
Washington, DC
January 12, 2007

QUESTION: So, I'd like to talk a little bit about yesterday and also just about what -- you're about to -- heading off to the Middle East. How do you chart a way forward now, given the response yesterday from both Democrats and Republicans to the new Iraq proposal?

SECRETARY RICE: Well, I think people had the chance to ask questions, to -- you know, express their skepticism. Of course, skepticism isn't the policy and so I think now, people will have a chance to go back and think and really decide whether they think there is an alternative. I don't see an alternative to what the President has proposed. I think the President thought long and hard about alternatives and came up with this policy. And the policy is designed to get through -- to get the Iraqis through a transition in which they need to take care of Baghdad, because the violence in Baghdad is threatening to overrun the political process, but in which they don't yet have the forces to do it. And our forces augment their forces to help with this.

It's a very specific mission. As Bob Gates said, it's thought of as a temporary surge because it's a very specific mission. And it is, from the point of view of the President and all of us, the very best way to help the Iraqis stabilize Baghdad, move their political process forward, and at that point, be able to get full control to Iraqis of the security situation, as the President said, by November. But this is the way to get to that point in time.

traduction simplifiée:


Comment dressez-vous la nouvelle proposition pour resoudre la situation en Irak ?

Madame Rice secrétaire d'état :
Je ne vois pas une autre alternative à celle que le président a proposé.
les Irakiens sont engagés dans une transition dans laquelle ils doivent prendre soin de Bagdad et rétablir la sécurité publique. La violence à Bagdad menace de déborder le processus politique, mais ils n'ont pas encore les forces pour s'en sortir seuls. C'est une mission très spécifique qui vise à aider les Irakiens à stabiliser Bagdad. L'objectif est de donner à terme les pleines commandes aux Irakiens de la gestion de leur propre sécurité.