Mr President, while the tanks were threatening Tbilisi and the French Presidency was ushering Europe into the role of peacemaker, a role that it ought never to have abandoned, I re-read a Hungarian author, Sándor Márai.
Senhor Presidente, enquanto os tanques ameaçavam Tbilisi e a Presidência francesa introduzia a Europa no papel de mediador da paz, um papel que nunca deveria ter abandonado, reli Sándor Márai, um autor húngaro.