Chirac woos Libyans for oil
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French President Jacques Chirac lead a delegation of business leaders on a trip to oil-rich Libya Wednesday hoping to expand trade ties.
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said Wednesday that President Jacques Chirac has accepted an invitation to visit Libya this year.
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French President Jacques Chirac welcomes   his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday at a time when   Russia is showing growing willingness to use booming oil and   gas revenues to boost its global economic clout.
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PARIS : King Abdullah of Jordan held talks on the Middle East with President Jacques Chirac after warning in a newspaper interview that elections in Iraq are impossible in the current state of insecurity.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy brokers a diplomatic triumph for six Bulgarian medics detained in Libya for the past eight years on murder charges
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President Jacques Chirac, of France has "praised the strategic vision" of the leader of the Libyan Revolution, Muammar al-Qathafi, "on the new future of Africa, being shaped within the framework of the great ...
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PARIS, Dec 31 (IPS) - The re-emergence of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi  into the diplomatic good graces of Europe has met with a  decidedly mixed response, even in some of the governments  ostensibly courting his favour.
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After 20 years of isolation, Libya has become the destination of choice for hungry oil companies ready to cut any kind of deal to get a piece of the north African state's oil riches.
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TRIPOLI -- President Jacques Chirac arrived in Libya yesterday to turn the page on the two countries' thorny past and boost commercial ties, the first French head of state to visit Libya since it won independence in 1951. Chirac is the latest in a series of Western leaders to visit leader Moammar Khadafy after Libya agreed to pay compensation for ...
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On a visit to Libya this week Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi discussed the proposal with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
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France&#39;s new President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed in a message here Saturday to strengthen dialogue between the European Union and oil-rich Gulf Arab states to make the best use of energy resources.
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France's president is to sign a nuclear co-operation deal with the United Arab Emirates during a tour of the region.
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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi condemned  terrorism at the request of President Nicolas Sarkozy, but his  comments failed to quell widespread controversy on Thursday  over his lengthy stay in France.
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TRIPOLI : French President Jacques Chirac is to make a landmark visit to Tripoli on November 24 following trips there by other European leaders, a Libyan official revealed.
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French President Jacques Chirac has sent his foreign minister to the Middle East to try to win freedom for two journalists held in Iraq by militants demanding France end its ban on Muslim headscarves in ...
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His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has received a written message from French President Jacques Chirac dealing with bilateral relations and matters of common concern.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Shroeder met with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on ways to boost bilateral relations and increase Libyan oil exports to Germany.