France to boycott Syria over Lebanon crisis
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France will have no more contact with Syria until Damascus shows its willingness to let Lebanon end its current crisis and appoint a new president, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Sunday.
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The foreign ministers of France, Italy and Spain on Saturday reiterated their commitment toward ending a long-running political crisis in Lebanon that is blocking the election of a president.
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The United States and France are weighing a UN Security Council resolution seeking to curb Syrian influence in Lebanon, whose pro-Syrian president wants to stay beyond
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France and Germany on Tuesday urged Syria to stop supporting forces that "want to destabilize Lebanon," and said Damascus could enjoy warmer relations with Europe if it helps revive stalled Middle East peace efforts.
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Syria is unwilling to put pressure on its Lebanon allies in the crisis that has left it without a president for over a month, Information Minister Mohsen Bilal said in comments published on Monday.
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BEIRUT -- Syria and its allied Hezbollah group yesterday condemned a UN decision to set up a tribunal in the assassination of Rafik Hariri, warning that it violated Lebanon's sovereignty and would deepen the nation's political crisis.
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The United States told Syria to stay out of the Lebanese politics after Lebanonâs Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri resigned. âLeave it to the Lebanese to work out the political implications and factors involved
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The UN Security Council is due to vote on a draft resolution calling on Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon and respect Lebanese sovereignty.
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The United States and France decided Tuesday to rush forward a Security Council resolution calling on Syria to remove its troops from Lebanon and cease its intervention in that country&#39;s politics.
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France and the US draw up a UN resolution aimed at getting Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon.
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International pressure mounted on Syria  to ease its grip on Lebanon as stunned Lebanese prepared to  bury assassinated former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri on  Wednesday.
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France and the United States agree there  is no point in talking to Syria because the conditions for an  honest dialogue do not exist, President Jacques Chirac said on  Wednesday.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan pressed Syria on Friday to withdraw its forces from Lebanon and criticized Lebanon&#39;s Syrian-backed president, Emile Lahoud, for seeking
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Gulf Arab ministers urged Syria on Monday to respect a UN Security Council resolution demanding it withdraw its troops from Lebanon, a rare public intervention in the affairs of a fellow Arab nation.
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Hezbollah and its allies said on Monday they would boycott a parliamentary session to prevent the anti-Syrian majority from electing a new president for Lebanon.
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The French government believes that two French journalists taken hostage in Iraq may have been taken to Syria with the connivance of authorities in Damascus.
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UNITED NATIONS : The UN Security Council called unanimously for Syria to pull its troops out of neighbouring Lebanon, a demand that the Syrians quickly rejected.