France accepts Iraqi conference will be governments only, easing ...
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In a quiet retreat, France on Monday eased off its call to include Iraqi groups that renounce violence in an international conference next month on ways to pacify their war-ravaged country.
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PARIS: Franco-British relations have moved closer to what they were before the falling out over the Iraq war, judging from a London summit between French President Jacques Chirac and British Prime Minister Tony ...
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Countries taking part in a conference on Iraq differ on how to assist the nation but strongly support the interim government&#39;s
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French President Jacques Chirac agreed to disagree with Prime Minister Tony Blair over Iraq on Thursday but pledged full cooperation, from Africa to the Middle East, when
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France called for a new start to  relations with the United States on Wednesday after a long  chill over the Iraq war and said the countries' leaders should  talk more often.
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PARIS - France is ready to play a greater role in rebuilding Iraq and has invited Iraqi President Ghazi Yawar for talks in Paris next month, President Jacques Chirac said in a speech on Friday.
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The French government reacted coolly on  Wednesday to a claim by a self-styled mediator that two French  journalists kidnapped in Iraq could be released soon.
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France dismissed accusations made in an official US report that French businessmen and politicians received bribes from Saddam Hussein in order to influence government policy on Iraq, with the foreign ministry describing them as &quot;unverified.&quot;
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Britain and France sought to bury their differences over the Iraq war once and for all, as their leaders said they were united in efforts to forge &quot;a stable and democratic Iraq&quot; in the coming months.
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France's foreign minister said Monday he was willing to apologize if Iraq's prime minister felt he had meddled too much in Iraqi affairs during a visit last week to Baghdad.
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The Paris Club of creditor nations, except for Russia, has agreed in principle to slash debts Iraq owes to the group by up to 80 percent, an official said Sunday.
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Iraq&#39;s foreign debt will be reduced by 80% after a compromise deal was brokered between France, Germany and the USA in the framework of the Paris Club of creditors on 21 November.
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French leaders began high-level meetings on Sunday on the fate of two French hostages in Iraq after Foreign Minister Michel Barnier returned to Paris empty-handed from a Middle East rescue mission.
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Iraq needs a broad-based government of  national unity and France could mediate to help set one up,  French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said in a newspaper  column on Monday.
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Ayad Allawi, Iraq&#39;s prime minister, backed out yesterday from plans for a reconciliation conference in Jordan with Iraq&#39;s exiled opposition, setting back hopes of a government accommodation
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French President Jacques Chirac said  on Friday he had not refused to meet Iraqi interim Prime  Minister Iyad Allawi after reports he was snubbing the Iraqi  leader by leaving an EU meeting in Brussels early.
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France backed UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's description of the US-led war on Iraq as &quot;illegal&quot; with Foreign Minister Michel Barnier saying that that long-held stance was why his country had opposed joining the conflict.