An ambassador responsible for monitoring the withdrawal of French soldiers from Afghanistan

(B2) Stanislas Lefebvre de Laboulaye has been entrusted with a delicate task in the context of the withdrawal of French soldiers from Afghanistan: "monitoring the transit agreements under negotiation or still to be negotiated with countries in the region to provide different exit routes for logistical disengagement" as the Foreign and Defense Ministers jointly confirmed today. Born in Beirut in 1946, he studied literature at the Sorbonne and the University of Vincennes and worked as an assistant at the University of Manchester. A career diplomat, where he entered at the age of 32, Lefebvre de Laboulaye did Ena (Voltaire promotion... ca tells you something, the famous De Villepin - Holland - Royal promotion...). He made the ritual stay in Brussels that any sensible diplomat must do (:-)) from 1984 to 1987 at the Permanent Representation to the European Communities responsible for institutional matters, the Environment and Research. He was also Russian ambassador, recently, from 2006 to 2008, notably during the Russian intervention in Georgia and the negotiation of the six-point plan by France. Which is quite useful...