Chirac says France committed to Ivorian mandate
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President Jacques Chirac said on Sunday his troops would not be withdrawn from France&#39;s former colony Ivory Coast where expatriots have fled an outbreak of anti-French violence.
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The French president sees support for plans that would group nations as diverse as Libya and Spain
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France's Jacques Chirac calls for a fairer international order based on a strengthened United Nations.
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French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has told President Jacques Chirac that he will stand for the leadership of the main governing party, officials say.
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Laurent Gbagbo, the Ivory Coast president, is committed to implementing peace deals struck with rebels who hold the north of the world&#39;s top cocoa grower, President Thabo Mbeki said today.
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France and Kuwait signed two agreements on defence cooperation that President Jacques Chirac and Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah said underlined a joint ambition to encourage stability in the Middle East.
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PARIS - In an attempt to ease tensions in the Ivory Coast, France has opted not to point the finger of blame at President Laurent Gbagbo for the violence that has roiled the country in the past week.
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French president Jacques Chirac delivers a speech at the Elysee Palace in Paris on 3 February.Comment
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âLa Francophonie has a large political role to play, especially to prevent conflicts,â said Deiss. The French bloc adopted a resolution on Ivory Coast after talks on Saturday in the Burkina Faso capital
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PARIS, Nov 24  - France&#39;s military intervention in Ivory Coast was a mistake, Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi said Wednesday in an interview published ahead of President Jacques Chirac&#39;s visit to Tripoli.
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French President Jacques Chirac declared on Saturday that France was a natural trade partner to China and, amid a flurry of air, rail and energy
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French President Jacques Chirac says France should hold a referendum on Turkey's entry to the European Union.
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France readied a U.N. resolution that seeks an arms embargo on the Ivory Coast after nine French soldiers and an American civilian were killed in a government bombing raid.
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OUAGADOUGOU  - Leaders from 36 French-speaking countries wrapped up a summit in Burkina Faso, with a call to the protagonists in the Ivory Coast conflict to implement a French-brokered pact to restore peace.
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PARIS, Nov 16  - Peace must be &quot;imposed&quot; on Ivory Coast if the warring sides there refuse to abide by a ceasefire, French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said Tuesday, hailing sanctions voted by the UN Security Council against the west African state.
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French President Jacques Chirac and his Nigerian counterpart Olusegun Obasanjo, the current head of the African Union, held talks here Thursday centring on mediation efforts in the troubled Ivory Coast.
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In an attempt to ease tensions in the Ivory Coast, France has opted not to point the finger of blame at President Laurent Gbagbo for the violence that has roiled the country in the past week.