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“CRIF is convinced that the new president will seek to improve relations with France in order to consolidate peace and democracy throughout the world.” Picture: French President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) and Barack Obama at the Elsée palace in Paris during a visit of the democratic presidential candidate earlier this year.
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PARIS (EJP)---CRIF, the umbrella representative body of French Jewish organisations, congratulated President-elect barack Obama and wished him success “in giving a new impetus to his country in this difficult economic situation.”
In a statement, CRIF said it feels confident that Obama “will uphold the values that made America great.”
“CRIF is convinced that the new president will seek to improve relations with France in order to consolidate peace and democracy throughout the world.”
The Jewish group expressed the hope that the new president “will oppose with determination the nuclear plans of the fanatical, aggressive and Holocaust-denying Iranian regime” and that the new American administration “will foster peace in the Middle-East through realistic measures.”
The French version of the statement said CRIF hoped the new president "would oppose Iran's nuclear plans "without determination and without "angélisme" (which means without some kind of naive idealism). The term didn't appear in the English version.