December of last year, the American Ambassador shared an anecdote with Foreign Minister Hillary Rodham Clinton: when the Mayor of Paris Eiffel Tower had stated in Turkey's national colors for a visit by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in april 2009, drivers ' mates to Mr Sarkozy, a staunch opponent of Turkey's entry to the EU, so that he will be redirected for the presidential plane would not see it.
"Elysée contacts have reported to us the great lengths, they will go to avoid disagreement" with Mr Sarkozy "or provoke his disapproval," said cable, signed by Ambassador Charles h. Rivkin. it was a part of a trove of documents obtained by WikiLeaks and made available to several news organizations.
Five years of correspondence between Paris and Washington describe a spectacular record-Iraq turnaround between one of the West's most complex diplomatic pair. Mr Sarkozy, who joined in May 2007, was described himself last year as "the most pro-American French President since the second world war" and a "force multiplier" for u.s. foreign policy interests.
But the cables also convey a nuanced assessment of the French leader as a little unpredictable shape with authoritarian tendencies and a h?jafgiftslande to decide policy on the fly January 2010 wrote American diplomats of a high-maintenance ally sometimes impatient to consult with key partners before the execution of initiatives favouring summits and direct contacts of traditional diplomacy.
Writing to Mrs Clinton Dec 4, 2009, Mr. Rivkin spoke about the need to channel Mr Sarkozy "impulsive proposal for constructive directions."Concessions on sensitive issues like Afghanistan would be best won by President Obama himself, he suggested.
"In my opinion, it would require periodic presidential intervention reassure Sarkozy in our commitment to an ally and partner, and in many cases to close the deal," he wrote.
The French President's Office declined to comment, even though Mr Sarkozy on Tuesday told the Ministers that the release of the documents, there was "the height of irresponsibility."
Paul Patin, an American Embassy spokesman, said on Tuesday: "President Sarkozy has proven time and time again that he is a true friend of France's U.S. is one of our closest allies, and our partnership has only been stronger during his presidency.
In General, few foreign policy disagreements surface between France and the United States under the chairmanship of Mr Sarkozy. a big difference, however, relate to Turkey with Washington, an ardent supporter of Turkey's ambition to join the European Union and fretful that Mr Sarkozy opposition threatens to "intimidate a strategic ally."
Joy among American diplomats by the arrival of a self professed pro-American candidate after years of difficult relations with Jacques Chirac was clearly in the correspondence well before Mr Sarkozy election.
In 2005, told Mr Sarkozy, then Minister of the Interior, Craig r. Stapleton then the American Ambassador, although he would have advised against the Iraq invasion, he still felt it "personally when American soldiers die in battle."Mr Sarkozy said he took it as a personal responsibility to "no U.S. Embassy or Consulate was so much as touched" in anti-American protests.
"Very much unlike almost all other French political personalities Sarkozy is viscerally pro-American," says a signed by Mr. Stapleton cable. "For most of his peers, the United States is a sometimes reviled or admired, but certainly foreign, other identifies with Sarkozy. United States; he can see his own rise in the world that reflects an American-style saga. "
If Mr Sarkozy Atlantic Outlook was never doubted — even in the most recent leaked the cable from the Jan. 25 years French-American relations is called "one of the best" — concerns about a "tyndhudet, authoritarian" period level, by October 2007, whom he divorced his second wife, Cécilia. two months later, diplomats, talked to Mr Sarkozy "unheard of" concentration of power over the Foreign Affairs Committee and "growing willingness to downgrade to human rights considerations in its relations with foreign leaders."
Praised for its leadership in 2008 Russia-Georgia war, and the global financial crisis, was Mr Sarkozy criticised by the European diplomats referred to in a cable to a "increasingly erratic" last half of his 2008 EU Presidency.
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