READ FOR YOU Nicolas Sarkozy offered over 41,000 dollars gift to Obama

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has offered for more than 41 thousand dollars in gifts to his counterpart Barack Obama in 2011, including a golf bag with a value of $ 7,750, according to a list released Thursday by the U.S. administration.

It is customary to give gifts to the Heads of State during official travel. Mitterrand Museum Château-Chinon, composed exclusively presents offered to the former president during his two seven demonstrated. And thus it is that Nicolas Sarkozy came with a present for the U.S. president.

According to a list prepared by the Office of the protocol depends on the State Department and the content was published recently, Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy offered to Barack Obama on 10 January 2011 a "big bag of accessories Hermes golf, black leather with a padlock and key. "

Pens, wine and clothes

The list of 231 pages contains many other gifts of the former French leader to his counterpart, especially the luxury leather goods. Also note, always provided by Sarkozy, an assortment of pens, wine and clothing, as well as a "statue of Bucephalus," the horse of Alexander the Great, the whole being valued at $ 15,803.62.

Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy had meanwhile offered to the wife of Mr. Obama, Michelle, Baccarat crystal lamps, estimated at $ 5,500, while the "first family" had received clothes and cosmetics, respectively 360 , 85 and 401 dollars. In total, the gifts offered by Sarkozy to Obama in 2011 represented a value of $ 41,675.71, or 32,050.80 euros at current prices, according to a statement made from the list of the State Department.

Other gifts to Obama by his counterparts appears a "statue of Abraham Lincoln" by more than 1.20 meters high, offered by former Chinese President Hu Jintao and valued at $ 9,800 by the U.S. protocol, while the Russian Dmitry Medvedev was more modest, giving Obama a "miniature Kremlin" enamel in an estimated $ 1,050 range.

All employees of the U.S. Federal State must report gifts of foreign origin. Gifts for the president and his family are transferred to the National Archives and may eventually be exposed in their presidential library.

(Source Webnews)