Chirac Thanked Yeltsin for Saving Abducted French UN Official - Former Russian Minister

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - In the late 1990s, then French President Jacques Chirac personally called Russian President Boris Yeltsin to thank him for the help in rescuing abducted French UN official Vincent Cochetel in the Caucasus, former Russian Interior Minister Sergei Stepashin said on Sunday.