SARKOZY LABELS NETANYAHU A LIAR

PanARMENIAN.Net
November 8, 2011 – 14:09 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – French President Nicolas Sarkozy told U.S. President
Barack Obama last week he was fed up with dealing with Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and considered him a liar.

Sarkozy made the comment during a private conversation with Obama
during a G20 summit in the French riviera town of Cannes last week
and the remarks were overheard by a small number of journalists but
not initially reported.

“I cannot bear Netanyahu, he’s a liar,” Sarkozy told Obama during a
frank exchange where the U.S. president took him to task for backing
a Palestinian request for membership of the UN cultural heritage
agency UNESCO.

A Reuters reporter was among the journalists present and can confirm
the veracity of the comments, which were relayed by a French internet
outlet on Tuesday.

Obama said he had to deal regularly with Netanyahu even if Sarkozy
was fed up with the Israeli leader, according to the translation of
a French interpreter during their Cannes exchange, Reuters reports.

In their quest for statehood recognition, the Palestinians have
requested membership of the over-arching United Nations system,
in addition to its Paris-based UNESCO subsidiary.

France voted in favor of a UNESCO request that succeeded but said last
week it would abstain in any vote on membership of the over-arching
UN system, which Washington has vowed to veto. Paris and Washington
are urging renewed peace talks between the Palestinians and Israelis.