Human rights minister brands Muammar Gaddafi's visit to France a ‘kiss of death’

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Source: The Times

The youngest member of President Sarkozy’s Government made an outspoken attack on her boss yesterday for letting Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, treat France like a “doormat” for “wiping off the blood of his victims”.

Rama Yade, 31, the Minister for Human Rights, stole the show with her tirade as Colonel Gaddafi arrived in Paris for a five-day stay that he regards as sealing his return to international respectability.

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Mr Sarkozy, after their talks, announced the conclusion of commercial contracts worth “a dozen billion euros” with Libya, including supply of a nuclear-powered plant for desalinating water.

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Ms Yade, an appointee with no political experience, called the commercial contracts indecent but rejected calls to resign despite her disgust with the visit, which began on United Nations Human Rights Day.

“Colonel Gaddafi must understand that our country is not a doormat on which a leader, terrorist or not, can come and wipe the blood of his crimes off his feet. France should not receive this kiss of death,” she told Le Parisien newspaper.

Political insiders assume that Ms Yade will lose her job for overstepping the already wide limits that Mr Sarkozy allows his young protégées.

Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3031384.ece

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Ms. Rama Yade should be careful: Not that she'll be abducted and tortured by the Libyans, like many other foreigners in this scary country.