When traveling to Dubai, Emmanuel Macron signed with the Sheikh Mohammed Ben Zayed a contract on the sale of 80 burst in the United Arab Emirates. This is the most important contract passed by Dassault Aviation.
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“In Europe, you have the watch, on our side we have time.” This saying often heard in the Middle East takes all its meaning today, since it took thirteen years of negotiations to succeed, Friday December 3, on the sale of 80 burst paper planes in the United Arab Emirates. This contract in ten billion euros – the exact amount has not been specified on Friday morning – with a resumption of the 60 Mirage 2000 of the army emiratia, was signed at Dubai by the President of the French Republic , Emmanuel Macron, and the heir prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed Ben Zayed. The sale of twelve caracal helicopters manufactured by the Airbus group has also been concluded.
The signature of these contracts occurred on the first day of an express visit of the French President in the Gulf. He had to fly away from Friday afternoon to Doha (Qatar), then meet Saturday in Jedda the Hirier Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Ben Salman. At each stage of this trip, it is a question of deepening cooperation in the fight against terrorism, to speak of regional stability and to amplify economic exchanges.
The announcement of an order of 80 bursts is the largest recorded by the French manufacturer Dassault Aviation, whose combat plane is now sold in six countries. The CEO of the company, Eric Trappier, had made the trip hoping finally to complete the process. Third thousand hours of discussion, punctuated by ups and downs, were at neightest by three Presidents of the Successive Republic – Nicolas Sarkozy, François Hollande and Emmanuel Macron -, because the sale of combat aircraft is before A whole political affair.
It all started in the summer of 2007. Barely arrived at the Elysée, Nicolas Sarkozy intends to put an end to the curse that weighs on the burst since the early 2000s, these devices have never been sold to export. Tenders in South Korea, the Netherlands and Singapore have been systematically won by the Americans, while the French plane is tried technically better. To justify these setbacks in areas under influence of the United States, the aircraft manufacturer appeals to Chinese wisdom by recalling that “bamboo always leans on the side of the strongest”.
” War Room “at the Elysée
The irritation of the new president is all the more lively as Morocco, traditional ally of France, wanting to buy burst, finally gave up, in the summer of 2007, and preferred the F16 of Lockheed Martin because of The disorganization of French negotiators, the state and industrialists are not on the same positions. Nicolas Sarkozy then installs a “War Room” at the Elysée to centralize the negotiations and avoid a new Fiasco.
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