Valérie Hoffenberg
Valérie Hoffenberg is a French politician, a supporter of Nicolas Sarkozy, who stood as a candidate for the Union for a Popular Movement in the May 2012 legislative elections. From 2003 to 2009 Hoffenburg was a Director of the neoconservative Jean Jacques Rousseau Institute.[1] [2]
French Middle-East Envoy
In September 2011 Hoffenberg, described by Haaretz as 'the outspoken' French foreign ministry special envoy to the Middle East, was 'summarily sacked over the weekend - because, she claims, of her opposition to the expected Palestinian unilateral declaration of statehood later this month. "I don't think this is a coincidence," the envoy told Haaretz when asked about the timing of her sacking, which she was shocked to learn about from a Foreign Ministry announcement on Friday. A day earlier, during a visit to Israel, at a meeting with Regional Development Minister Silvan Shalom, Hoffenberg said that while she did not know the official French position, she herself was "completely opposed to the unilateral declaration."'[3]
Notes
- ↑ JJRI About Us retrieved from the Internet Archive of 3 November 2004 on 8 June 2012
- ↑ JJRI About Us retrieved from the Internat Archive of 22 October 2009 on 8 June 2012
- ↑ Danna Harman, French Mideast envoy fired for opposing Palestinian UN bid Haaretz, Sep.07, 2011 | 1:07 AM, accessed 8 June 2012
