Chirac meets Blair under shadow of Iraq
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As a sign of their continuing co-operation, the leaders of Britain and France are scheduled to hold a meeting in London on 18 November.
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French President Jacques Chirac said that Iraq's interim president will travel to Paris early next month for talks on how France can best contribute to Iraq's reconstruction.
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French President Jacques Chirac and British Prime Minister Tony Blair maintained Thursday that relations between their countries were not strained by their disagreements over the Iraq war, as evidenced by their ...
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Britain's next prime minister met with Iraqi leaders on Monday in a surprise visit following promises to study his country's participation in the conflict.
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27 August 2004 -- French President Jacques Chirac says Paris is ready to play a greater role in rebuilding Iraq. Chirac said that &quot;France is open to dialogue with the Iraqi authorities on all issues -- training
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Baghdad on Sunday to lend support to the Iraqi government, which is under pressure from Washington to do more to stem worsening violence.
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Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac will hold talks in London tomorrow - with Downing Street insisting their differences over Iraq and the UK-US relationship need not be a barrier to progress on other issues.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair made  a surprise first visit to Baghdad Tuesday to meet Iraqi Prime  Minister Iyad Allawi and show support for elections scheduled  for January.
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Jacques Chirac, the French president, is to miss an EU summit meeting today with the interim Iraqi prime minister, Ayad Allawi. Aides to Mr Chirac, an opponent of the US-led war, denied the move was a snub
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has arrived in Baghdad for a surprise visit to show his support for the newly-formed Iraqi national unity government.
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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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French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder were to meet in the eastern French city of Strasbourg for informal talks focused on Turkey's bid to join the EU and Iraq.
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Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac are due to hold talks on Thursday before the French president goes to Windsor Castle as a guest of the Queen.
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France is stepping up its local contacts in Iraq over the mysterious disappearance of a French reporter and her translator in the country, the prime minister said.
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France&#39;s president left a Brussels meeting early in what has been widely seen as a refusal to meet Iraq&#39;s prime minister. Jacques Chirac left a European Union summit Thursday
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LONDON - British newspapers rapped French President Jacques Chirac on Thursday for reopening old wounds over Iraq on the eve of an official visit to Britain, but looked ahead to improved relations between the two European powers.
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LONDON - French President Jacques Chirac faced at times scathing criticism from British newspapers on Friday for stressing his continued differences with London over Iraq during a visit to Britain.