France mends fences with Israel
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier vows to fight  mounting anti-Semitism in his country while visiting Israel.
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Nato has held unprecedented ministerial talks with Israel and six Arab nations aiming to strengthen ties with friends on the allianceâs volatile southern and south-eastern flanks.
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French President Jacques Chirac held a summit meeting with Italy's Romano Prodi, shoring up bilateral ties that had been strained under the prime minister's predecessor Silvio Berlusconi.
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After a green light from the UN, France decided Tuesday to scrap its neutrality and help fend off a rebel advance.
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The conservative French President reaches across party lines in filling a key foreign-affairs post
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"I've said several times... that it's time for Israel to make gestures which would show that peace is possible, including ending settlements"  France will have no more contact with Syria until Damascus shows willingness to let Lebanon end its long-running political crisis and find a new president, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Sunday. via New Straits Times
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Visiting Foreign Minister Michel Barnier pledged French help to ensure the success of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza pullout plan as he sought to open a new chapter in recently fraught relations.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (11/17/2004) - French media reported on Wednesday that Israelis assisted the Ivory Coast army in its attacks on French military bases in the African nation in which nine French peacekeepers and one US aid worker were killed.
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The foreign ministers of Israel and Morocco held their first publicly disclosed talks in years Wednesday, with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the heart of the discussion.
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French President Jacques Chirac set aside years of acrimony over the bombing of a French passenger jet in the 1980s and on Thursday declared a "new chapter" in relations with this former north African pariah state.
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France, Italy and Spain's foreign ministers met on Saturday with Lebanon's feuding political leaders in a bid to break a long-running deadlock that is preventing the election of a president.
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Israel said on Wednesday it was prepared to make "painful concessions" to achieve peace with the Palestinians, working via an Arab initiative drawn up earlier this year and supported by Egypt and Jordan.
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PARIS : French President Jacques Chirac called for the planned Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip to be carried out in line with the stalled roadmap for Middle East peace.
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GIRONA, Spain, Nov. 16 -- Spain, France and Italy agreed on Thursday to work on a joint plan to try to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, calling for a total cease-fire and suggesting they could send truce monitors to the area.
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A French envoy arrived in Beirut on  Tuesday to hand out invitations to rival Lebanese leaders for a  meeting in France later this month aimed at easing tensions in  the country.
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier vowed a zero tolerance policy towards anti-semitism as he visited a memorial to French Jews killed in the Holocaust at the start of a fence-mending trip to Israel.
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The foreign ministers of France, Italy, Spain and seven other European states called on Monday for an international conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and said Israel should make more concessions for peace.