"There is a legal buffer to our intervention. August 22 is the deadline for the two-month period granted by the UN Security Council to states, that is France, who wanted to intervene in Rwanda," Juppe told reporters after appearing before the Foreign Affairs Committee of parliament.
He said that France's aim had always been to withdraw its 2,500 troops, sent on a humanitarian mission to protect refugees in the central African country, by late July or early August.
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