On 1 July 1970, in an interview granted to the French television channel ORTF on the eve of the Franco-German consultation meeting scheduled to be held on 3 and 4 July, Willy Brandt describes relations between France and the Federal Republic of Germany as ‘exemplary’. The German Chancellor emphasises the importance of the support of the French President, Georges Pompidou, for the Federal Government’s Ostpolitik.