In Mexico to Bury Hatchet, France Foreign Minister Says US No Longer Dictates World Events Tim Johnson - McClatchy Newspapers
go to original July 16, 2013

MEXICO CITY - France’s foreign minister called Monday for far-reaching collaboration with Mexico, officially burying a diplomatic squabble that roiled relations between the two nations for years.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius hailed Mexico as a vital partner in a chaotic world in which he asserted that the United States is no longer the sole, overarching power.

“For a long time, we lived in a bipolar world. Then it became unipolar,” Fabius said, referring to the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall and the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. “France and Mexico hope for a multi-polar world with an equitable balance of power.”

But he said the reality is that the world today is “zero polar,” without a dominant power to force solutions on issues such as the civil war in Syria that the United Nations said last month had taken more than 92,000 lives.

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