Former French Minister of Foreign Affairs (1997-2002), Hubert Védrine continues to follow and analyze world news with unfailing lucidity. Since 2007, he has published every two years, with Pascal Boniface, founder and director of the Institute of International and Strategic Relations, the Geopolitical Atlas of the Global World, a work offering more than 100 maps to understand the complexity of the world and in decipher the challenges. A fine connoisseur of international relations, Mr. Védrine was part, in 2003, of the group of sixteen personalities set up by Kofi Annan to reflect on the future of the UN. This means that the mechanisms and foundations of global governance hold no secrets for him. “Le Matin” met him in Casablanca and was able to have a very instructive exchange with him on questions such as the world order, the role of the UN, the renewal of the relationship between Paris and Rabat and the question of Sahara. This former head of French diplomacy, who takes an uncompromising, even disillusioned, look at global reality, explains how relations between great powers favor the emergence of a “semi-chaotic” system. Regarding the new “unique” partnership between Rabat and Paris, Mr. Védrine welcomes it while insisting on the need to give it content commensurate with the challenges facing the world, in order to make it a model of North-South cooperation.
