It is the French who will benefit first aid announced 3 billion provided by the Saudis to the Lebanese army. According to President Michel Suleiman, the country will spend this aid in the purchase of heavy weapons in France, according to the will of the monarch. "
The King of the United fraternal 'sSaudi Arabia offers this generous support and valued $ 3 billion to build the capacity of the Lebanese army " , he has said, adding that "
His Highness suggested that weapons are bought in France and quickly. "Frequent visits to France the Minister of Foreign Affairs Saud al-Faisal and the Chief IntelligenceBandar Bin Sultan left already provide such a reconciliation of France with this new "
partner of choice " Middle East.
At the same time, on 29 and 30 December, the French President François Hollande met King Abdullah in Riyadh and confirmed by signing the agreement with Saudi partners, the announcement of the Lebanese president. An exceptional sign arms deal was actually the first priority of the French President in this visit. France wants to capitalize on the current cooling of relations between Riyadh and Washington to take some of the arms market hitherto dominated by Americans. In the last decade, more than 70 billion dollars, in fact, been invested in the purchase of weapons by the various oil emirates and kingdoms.
For François Hollande who, in France, the greatest difficulties to fulfill the promise made to the French coast and whose credibility needs to be boosted gradually supplant the Americans in this market is all the more important in view of a disengagement Washington crises in the Middle East and Central Asia-they are primarily responsible - and an agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue.
Regarding Lebanon, the French President and King Abdullah also discussed more specifically the "protection and stability" in Lebanon - François Hollande has called for "
respect for the constitutional deadlines , "referring to the presidential election scheduled for May 2014 - and support the informal group "
Friends of Lebanon "French initiative at the last General Assembly of the UN in September. International support group in Lebanon is supposed to be structured around the P5 +1 (U.S., Russia, China, United Kingdom and France, plus Germany, which since 2006 are in charge of negotiating the nuclear issue with Iran) , the EU and the Arab League to lobby for Lebanon in the areas of refugee assistance and it is not a coincidence, support the armed forces.
So after ingested in the Syrian conflict by supporting the rebels and mercenaries Islamist Wahhabi trend, determined to overthrow the secular regime of Bashar al-Assad and impose their law, and opposing any negotiated solution, the France led by the French Socialist Party, an ally of Saudi Arabia and "unwavering ally" of Israel - evidenced by the recent visit of French President - continues its reactionary international strategy now interfering in Lebanon via Saudi Arabia, which is placed in a strong position relative to the Lebanese army face Shiite Iran and Hezbollah, also allies of Syria.
The growing jihadist now extends from Afghanistan to Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, North Africa and the Sahara with Mali and Chad. So irresponsible, and without consulting the French Socialists to power in France does not intend to sell on Syria and Saudi Arabia share with the conviction that "there is no political solution "if President Bashar al-Assad will not leave power, as reiterated by the French president publicly on several occasions during his visit to Saudi Arabia.
Attempts to sabotage the Geneva Conference on the Iranian nuclear by the French socialist government are only a means to gain time to impose "the" Syrian leader credible, capable of unanimity among all parties, the Russians particularly. According to Laurent Fabius, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, the French president will require, at the opening of negotiations in Geneva 2, which should open on January 22, the Syrian opposition participating in the negotiations, including his protégé Ahmed Jarba, head of the National Coalition of opposition and revolution (CNFOR) since July 2013.
Who is Ahmed Jarba?
Hitherto unknown to the majority of Syrians, Ahmed Jarba comes from a Bedouin tribe in the province of Hassaké, belonging to the powerful Shammar confederation which extends in Iraq, Saudi Arabia - King Abdullah's mother is Chammar - and Syria. Particularly conservative although himself claims to be a "secularist" (sic) tribe. After two stays in Syrian prisons for non-political reasons, he lives in Saudi Arabia, where he maintains close relations with the secret services of the kingdom. He uses his special relationship with the Saudi regime to negotiate the purchase of weapons in the Croatian stock and the Balkans in particular. It is close to General Salim Idriss, head of the Free Syrian Army, is said today fleeing jihadist groups close to al-Qaeda, who accompanied him on his travels Paris. Received with great pomp in the French capital last July, Ahmed Jarba is a Knight of the French Legion of Honor, nothing less! He benefit of French arms sales "emergency" in Lebanon to arm his rebel comrades? One can imagine.
As for Iran, at the center of discussions between Francois Hollande and King Abdullah, the negotiations on the Iranian nuclear disturb the two capitals. Paris is committed to informing King Abdullah on the progress of discussions between the P5 +1 and Iran, a role played by Washington so far. It is true that the secret negotiations for eight months between the U.S. and Iran to the nose and beard Riyadh in Oman neighbor were particularly angered the Saudi monarch. François Hollande is now regarded by the Saudis as the best Western ally in the face of "Shiite axis" formed by Iran, Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
France will she rewarded his loyal services rendered to the Saudi kingdom? King Abdullah, in fact, given instructions even before the arrival of French President on economic agreements representing a value of over $ 550 billion over the next ten years, including the delivery of nuclear reactors to weapons and infrastructure. Although they are slow to ratify an agreement already concluded (the MK3 agreement) but not yet signed by the king, the Saudis should buy new Rattlesnake missiles worth € 2.4 millliards and sign an agreement for a value of € 2.4 billion for maintenance and renovation of air defense structures.
The contract on the sale of heavy weapons in Lebanon paid by Saudi Arabia, where will the French Thales group out of its crisis, is in the context of a possible confrontation with Iran and Hezbollah. More than ever, the French Socialist leaders play the sorcerer's apprentice without worrying about the consequences and without the lessons of previous conflicts in the region and they are among the main actors from the Gulf War against Iraq in 1991.
