Kathmandu: The French Ambassador, Claude Ambrosini, has said that Francophony wishes not only to bring the countries and the people who share the practice of the French language, it was also an institution in itself which brings to the world a humanistic contribution founded on a community of values in a spirit of solidarity.
Ambassador Ambrosini made these remarks while delivering a speech on the eve of the beginning of Francophony festival in Nepal last week.
The 20th March this year is being marked in the French speaking countries world-wide as the 32nd anniversary of the signature of Niamey that laid the foundation of the “Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation” reassembling the countries that use the French language on various account.
Francophonie, it should be recalled, thus represents today a commonwealth whose international policy is to work for peace by helping to prevent conflict within the French speaking world and to work for democracy by election observation missions and electoral capacity building among others.