who is president of france?
Nicolas Sarkozy
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 From the mid @-@ 1960s to the mid @-@ 1990s , France pursued a military strategy of independence from NATO under a policy dubbed " Gaullo @-@ Mitterrandism " . Nicolas Sarkozy negotiated the return of France to the integrated military command and the Defence Planning Committee in 2009 , the latter being disbanded the following year . France remains the only NATO member outside the Nuclear Planning Group and unlike the United States and the United Kingdom , will not commit its nuclear @-@ armed submarines to the alliance . 

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 In two polls about presidential favourites in April and May 2013 , Marine le Pen polled ahead of president François Hollande but behind Nicolas Sarkozy . 

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 King Louis XVI was officially welcomed to Paris with a respectful ceremony held by mayor Jean Sylvain Bailly . His return was touted as a momentous turning point in the Revolution , by some even as its end . Optimistic observers such as Camille Desmoulins declared that France would now enter a new golden age , with its revived citizenry and popular constitutional monarchy . Others were more wary , such as journalist Jean @-@ Paul Marat , who wrote : 

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 After World War II , the French Committee of National Liberation was late to be recognized by the US as the government of France , and so the country was initially excluded from the conferences that created the new organization . The future French president Charles de Gaulle criticized the UN , famously calling it a machin ( " contraption " ) , and was not convinced that a global security alliance would help maintain world peace , preferring direct defence treaties between countries . Throughout the Cold War , both the US and USSR repeatedly accused the UN of favoring the other . In 1953 , the USSR effectively forced the resignation of Trygve Lie , the Secretary @-@ General , through its refusal to deal with him , while in the 1950s and 1960s , a popular US bumper sticker read , " You can 't spell communism without U.N. " In a sometimes @-@ misquoted statement , President George W. Bush stated in February 2003 ( referring to UN uncertainty towards Iraqi provocations under the Saddam Hussein regime ) that " free nations will not allow the United Nations to fade into history as an ineffective , irrelevant debating society . " In contrast , the French President , François Hollande , stated in 2012 that " France trusts the United Nations . She knows that no state , no matter how powerful , can solve urgent problems , fight for development and bring an end to all crises ... France wants the UN to be the centre of global governance . " Critics such as Dore Gold , an Israeli diplomat , Robert S. Wistrich , a British scholar , Alan Dershowitz , an American legal scholar , Mark Dreyfus , an Australian politician , and the Anti @-@ Defamation League consider UN attention to Israel 's treatment of Palestinians to be excessive . In September 2015 , Saudi Arabia 's Faisal bin Hassan Trad has been elected Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Council panel that appoints independent experts , a move criticized by human rights groups . 
