Media performance even in a country of 1

Even in China, that he has to leave after four years as Ambassador to Beijing France, Hervé Ladsous leaves a strong image. A "dynamic" diplomat who has the "meaning of friendship and communication", said "The daily of the people", quoting a Beijing academic, Dong Qiang.

It is true that the Director of the Office of the new Foreign Minister, Michèle Alliot-Marie, can display a success story in the people's Republic. Evidence of this success, the former spokesman of the Quai d'Orsay (2003-2005) was able to collect 26 million Internet users to watch one of his interviews on the Internet. Media performance, even in a country of 1.3 billion people. But, especially, the diplomat who began his career as vice-consul in Hong Kong in 1973, has strongly contributed by his action to overcome the latest crisis between China and the France 2008. Modest, Hervé Ladsous is no less convinced that it is still possible to influence the course of events. "This was not always easy, but we are not only browsers of calm water." It is also facing rough seas", said of his craft"Submariner"this son, born April 12, 1950 and spent his childhood and his youth to follow his father from port to port.

Negotiator and man of action

Full French Presidency of the g-20, his deep knowledge of Asia and China particularly will be all the more valuable that President Nicolas Sarkozy is determined to rely on Beijing to advance its agenda. This sinophilie is rooted in his home in reading, child, the story of the travels of Marco Polo. Become student having passed his bac in Madagascar and learned English at Malta, it was intuition that China, in full jolt of the revolution, would "become something great". Degree in law, he chose the route of the East competition, and not that of the ENA, learning Chinese and Indonesian.

At a critical time for diplomacy, shaken by the release of thousands of telegrams are embarrassed many Governments, negotiating skills which the Director of cabinet in multilateral forums of the United Nations in Geneva from 1986 to 1988 and in New York from 1992 to 1997 and the OSCE in Vienna from 1997 to 2001will be another significant asset. Negotiating skills doubled home a real interest in other cultures and countries where he has resided - never for all lose sight his family Aveyron-, but also of a temperament of man of action.

His life of diplomat was not free from "hot moments". Chargé d'affaires in Haiti in 1991-1992, is under the bullets, full coup d'etat, it must allow the residence the overthrown President Aristide and dozens of other refugees. Become Ambassador of France in Jakarta, it is ringside, on 20 May 2002, when East Timor declares its full and entire independence of the Indonesia. The following year, France 2 him spent even a story to extol his action after the terrible bombing of Bali in October 2002 and its ability to blend into the crowd to attend a ceremony of purification in Indonesia. The show was entitled "the Ambassador is anchored his shirt". Nice compliment for the lovers of sea spray.