Giscard's motives
Socialist Press1980 1980-03-19Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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›m the Liaison The reasons for the French government's refusal to align itself with the USled condemnation of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan or to boycott, the Moscow Olympics have now become crystal clear.
Figures released this week reveal that Franco-Soviet trade reached FFr 16 bn (£1.7bn) last year. The trade turnover rose by 33% from the 1978 level of FFr. 12.18 bn, and France is likely to emerge as the Soviet Union's second largest Western trading partner in the 1980s.
. To the French government's delight, exports to the USSR increased by 30% and included such things as oil recovery equipment, agricultural products, mostly meat and butter, and whole factory equipment.
The imports were mainly. of oil and oil products, natural gas and raw materiais such as cotton, wood, precious metals, nickel and copper.
These figures may also throw light on French Communist Party Secretary Marchais' apparently maverick stand in support of the Soviet bureaucracy on the question of Afghanistan.
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