[France, under President Jacques Chirac, has emerged as the most assertive member of the trio.] He wants to get France back to the top of the agenda, ... He's going to do a lot of things, most of which we have to allow a little bit of French elan for, a little bit of their style of doing things, but the French nonetheless have a competent military, they have very strong foreign policy objectives. I think we'll see them pursue them.
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