Dining on Crow

Dining on Crow `a la Franc,aise

To be accepted into the Socialist Cabinet, the Communists not only had to pledge themselves to support Mitterrand's program and pace, but they had to disavow a number of their basic foreign policy positions. Key quotes from the agreement with the Socialists:

> The two parties are resolved to promote the new policies that the French people chose when they elected Franc,ois Mitterrand to the presidency of the Republic. They will do so in the National Assembly within the newly constituted majority. They will do so in the government with an unfailing solidarity.

> The [proposed social and economic] changes will be introduced in stages, based on a pace of transformation that will take into account the crisis situation, the fact that France's economy is open to the world at large, and the need to maintain economic and financial equilibrium.

> [The two parties] affirm the right of the Afghan people to choose their own regime and government, and call for the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan and an end to all foreign interference.

> They hope that [Poland] and its people will themselves successfully conduct the process of economic, social and democratic renewal that they have begun.

> Noting the situation created by the Camp David agreements, they reaffirm the right to existence and security of Israel and of all the states of the region as well as the right of the Palestinian people to a homeland.

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