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Sarkozy: ‘We share many views’ with Obama
During a joint press conference, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and US presidential hopeful Barack Obama expressed mutual admiration and presented shared views on issues like Iran, the Middle East, the environment, and Darfur.
US presidential hopeful Barack Obama arrived in Paris on Friday after drawing 200,000 cheering fans to an open-air speech in Berlin aimed at burnishing his foreign policy credentials.
The Democrat was due to meet the rightwing pro-US President Nicolas Sarkozy here on a brief second leg of a European tour before going to London to see British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and former prime minister Tony Blair.
Sarkozy told Friday’s edition of Le Figaro newspaper the 46-year-old Obama, whom he met once in 2006 in Washington along with his 71-year-old Republican rival John McCain, was a “friend.”
Obama got a rock star welcome for his speech Thursday in Berlin’s Tiergarten park, but in Paris he was to make no public appearances except a press conference after meeting Sarkozy.
The Illinois Democratic senator will return home to Chicago on Saturday.
Source: France24
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