US secreatry of State Hillary Clinton gestures as she arrives at the Elysee palace for a meeting with french President Nicolas Sarkozy prior to a conference on Libya’s post-Moamer Kadhafi future on September 1, 2011 in Paris. France hosts a “Friends of Libya” conference to allow states that stood by during the uprising that ousted Moamer Kadhafi to belatedly back Tripoli’s fledgling revolutionary regime. AFP PHOTO LIONEL BONAVENTURE (Photo credit should read LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP/Getty Images)