Question 9602 — foreign policy

Summary

France undertook, in 1998, significant work to declassify archives relating to Rwanda during the period 1990 to 1994 as part of the parliamentary information mission chaired by Mr. Quilès. Près; 10,000 documents were thus declassified, some of which can be consulted online on the National Assembly website. In order to further open access to these archives, a new step was taken in 2014 with the establishment of an interministerial Commission coordinated by the General Secretariat of Defense and National Security (SGDSN), responsible for carrying out a census of the archives relating to the Rwandan genocide kept, among others, at the Presidency of the Republic, the Ministry of the Armed Forces or the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and to examine the possibilities of their declassification. In this context, documents from Ministry of Foreign Affairs were declassified in January 2016 by decision of the Minister and can be consulted according to the terms of the Heritage Code. The French commitment to transparency was also reflected in President Hollande's decision to declassify President Mitterrand's archives. This work of declassification of archives relating to Rwanda will continue in compliance with the procedures necessary for the protection of national defense secrets.

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