Chirac: 15,000 peacekeepers 'excessive'
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French President Jacques Chirac said Friday that he does not believe the expanded U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon needs 15,000 troops, and he called that figure "excessive."
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French President Jacques Chirac said Friday that the United Nations Security Council does not represent today&#39;s world and should be expanded to include Germany, Japan
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Those demanding the return of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide hurled stones and fired shots in the air yesterday as the death toll from a surge of violence in the Haitian capital rose to 14.
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An aid worker in Chad says the new peacekeeping force may contain too many French troops to be seen as neutral.
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More than 4,000 foreigners have left Ivory Coast in the recent surge of violence, says France.
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BEIRUT -- The French general commanding UN peacekeeping forces in Lebanon said yesterday his troops would not intervene to disarm Hezbollah, even as President Jacques Chirac of France said the militant group should not keep a military wing.
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The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq mobilized Islamic extremists and made the world more dangerous, French President Jacques Chirac said, keeping up his vocal opposition to the war on the eve of a visit to London.
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France will greatly increase the size of   the contingent it is promising for a peacekeeping force in   southern Lebanon, possibly making it easier to recruit other   nations, officials and diplomats said on Thursday.
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FRANCE was on the brink of war with one of its former African colonies last night after planes belonging to the Ivory Coast government bombed peacekeepers in the rebel-held north, killing nine French troops and an American citizen and wounding 23 French
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France introduced a Security Council resolution Thursday that would increase the U.N. force in Congo by 5,900 troops, less than half the amount requested by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
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France's Jacques Chirac calls for a fairer international order based on a strengthened United Nations.
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The crisis in Darfur is a humanitarian disaster that threatens the entire region, French President Jacques Chirac said on Thursday while urging Sudan to accept peacekeepers.Comment
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Les Indigenes shows how North African soldiers were marginalised French President Jacques Chirac has announced that the pensions of foreign soldiers who fought in the French army are to be brought into line ...Comment
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PARIS : French President Jacques Chirac sharply criticized the international community&#39;s failure to help put an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying the world should &quot;impose&quot; peace talks.
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French President Jacques Chirac is a "misleader" who has made a rush to war in the Ivory Coast, causing needless deaths and injuries to innocent Ivorians and to the ill-equipped and poorly supplied French ...
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Global body has misused tens of millions in its peacekeeping mission over the past 3 years.
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CANNES, France: The crisis in Darfur is a humanitarian disaster that threatens the entire region, French President Jacques Chirac said Thursday while urging Sudan to accept peacekeepers.Comment