 During the Cold war, France considered Pakistan as "state deserving attention", and had been a major foreign supplier of Pakistan Armed Forces.After the Cold war, France's foreign policy has been noted for decades for its
special Gaullist flavour, which was not much altered under the long Presidency of socialist François Mitterrand (1981-1995).French Presidents visited India more often than Pakistan, and Paris has never met the expectations of Islamabad regarding the U.N. resolutions on Kashmir.