France is not willing to sign Warsaw Declaration at democracy conference

The French delegation is the only one out of 107 attending the U.S. sponsored democracy conference to decline to sign the Warsaw Declaration on democracy. The French delegation says the conference was supposed to only initiate a discussion on democracy, not to fix any program of future action. All observers are convinced, however, that objection is a protest against the leading role of the United States and its Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright. (Zycie, page1) A.D.