Chirac Denies He Refused to See Iraq's Allawi
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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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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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France&#39;s Jacques Chirac has reignited a bitter row over the US-led invasion of Iraq on the eve of a state visit to London, accusing the United States and Britain of making the world a more dangerous place.
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PARIS - President Jacques Chirac vowed Sunday to spare no effort to free two French journalists held hostage in Iraq by militants reportedly demanding that France revoke its law banning Islamic head scarves in schools.   "The whole nation is gathered together because what's at stake is the lives of two French people, the defense of freedom of expression, and also the values of our Republic," Chirac said in a televised address...
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Citing his past judicial immunity, former French President Jacques Chirac refused to be questioned in a probe into an apparent smear scandal involving his successor, his office said Friday.
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HANOI: French President Jacques Chirac has said the US-led war in Iraq was illegal and expressed his fear for the countryâs future in the face of a âcivil warâ.
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French President Jacques Chirac says he is &quot;not at all&quot; sure Saddam Hussein&#39;s removal has made the world safer. In an interview with the BBC ahead of his visit to London Thursday
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MARSEILLE, France : In a major broadside, President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin rejected a senior government minister's idea of using state funds to build mosques and train Islamic ...
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The French government today refused to bow to the demands of militants who have kidnapped two French journalists in Iraq, insisting that a law banning Muslim headscarves in school would go ahead.
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Former French President Jacques Chirac refuses to be quizzed about an alleged plot to discredit his successor.
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French President Jacques Chirac, an outspoken critic of the U.S.-led Iraq war, sought to smooth relations with Iraq on Friday by inviting its president to Paris and denying he had snubbed Baghdad's prime minister.
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France&#39;s Jacques Chirac on Friday refused  to answer questions from judges about an apparent plot to smear  Nicolas Sarkozy, the man who succeeded him as president in May,  citing a constitutional bar.
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French President Jacques Chirac began a  visit to Britain Thursday overshadowed by his withering  accusations against Washington and London of endangering the  world by invading Iraq.
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France, one of the harshest critics of the war that brought down Saddam Hussein, stressed it would not commit troops for Iraq despite appeals from the United States and United Nations.
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Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi, yesterday contradicted Tony Blair&#39;s claim that there was a new conflict inside Iraq and dismissed fears of a civil war.
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Dozens of leaders from countries that mostly opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, including President Jacques Chirac of France, attended a conference at U.N. headquarters on how to combat the dark side of ...
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French President Jacques Chirac, right, poses with Iraq&#39;s new ambassador to France Mouaffak Al Medhi Aboud Al Hmoudi during a ceremony of credentials at the Elysee Palace, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2004.