At this time, France was the only major country supportive of the Biafrans (the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States sided with the Nigerian government), and the conditions within the blockade were unknown to the world.
当时，法国是唯一一个支持比夫拉人的大国（英国、前苏联和美国皆站在尼日利亚政府一边），而且外界对封锁区内的情况一无所知。