France Calls for Fresh Start in Relations with U.S.
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France wants a fresh start in relations with the United States and both sides have much to contribute to a renewed transatlantic partnership, Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said in comments published Monday.
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President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan, in a conciliatory gesture aimed at China's newly consolidated leadership, proposed a fresh start Sunday on long-suspended talks to improve relations and lower tension across the Taiwan Strait.
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Relaunching the Middle East peace  process will be a test of U.S. relations with Europe, French  Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said on Wednesday.
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MOUNT VERNON, Virginia  - The U.S. and French presidents forged a common front against Iran's nuclear ambitions on Wednesday, signaling a further warming of once-chilly relations between Washington and Paris.
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President Jacques Chirac crossed the English Channel to say on Thursday that France was ready to cooperate with the United States and Britain to make the world more stable, just and prosperous.
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In a show of his new foreign policy objectives, the French president called a meeting Monday in an attempt to help bolster the international military presence in Darfur.
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"Next week in New York there will be discussions to try to have a resolution. If in the framework of the U.N. things are not sufficient, we will act in the European framework."  France's foreign minister appeared Tuesday to soften his weekend warning of war with Iran if it develops nuclear weapons, emphasizing instead the need to 'negotiate, negotiate, negotiate without respite.'Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner also had said that European leaders were considering their own economic sanctions against Iran over its refusal to halt the enrichment of uranium in its nuclear program.Kouchner, who is on his first trip to Moscow as France's top diplomat, on Sunday said 'we must prepare ourselves for the worst' if Iran obtains nuclear weapons, and he specified that could mean a war. Read more
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza  Rice will visit France starting on Sunday to meet new President  Nicolas Sarkozy in a trip experts said would signal a recovery  in bilateral ties that frayed over the Iraq war.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (IPS) - In a sharp departure from U.S. policy, a leading  French diplomat has called on the international coalition  sponsoring U.N. sanctions against Iran to support a larger  Iranian role in the Middle East.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  called on Tuesday for a new chapter in relations with Europe  after a rift over the Iraq war and began repairing ties with  France, one of the biggest critics of the conflict.
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The French government is preparing to establish a "new alliance" with the United States after next week's election, The Telegraph reported Tuesday.
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In April, France's new finance minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, met with US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of State Colin Powell in Washington.
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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner's recent tough talk on Iran likely will be a topic of discussion when he meets U.S. officials in Washington.
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PARIS - French President Jacques Chirac says US policies will make it difficult to mend the divide between Europe and Washington. In a report published Tuesday in the Times of London, Chirac said that repairing
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President Jacques Chirac visits Senegal on Wednesday for the first time in a decade, hoping to boost ties with a former West African colony at a time when the United States is raising its military profile in ...
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US President George W. Bush is capitalizing on anti-French sentiments that have emerged in the United States since Paris opposed last year's US-led attack on Iraq, suggesting that opponent John Kerry would give France a veto over US policy.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt  - Outgoing Secretary of  State Colin Powell signaled on Tuesday Washington was open to  one day re-establishing diplomatic ties with Iran after the  countries held their most sustained, high-level contact in  years.