France Urges Caution in Oil-For-Food Case
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France urged caution Thursday in dealing with a U.S. inspector's allegations it was involved in corruption at the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq, while others singled out in the report rejected the charges as "far-fetched."
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NEW YORK - Congressional investigators examining "a semitrailer truck load" of subpoenaed documents are trying to determine whether lax monitoring at a French bank that held more than $60 billion for the U.N. oil-for-food program facilitated illicit business deals by the former Iraqi government, officials told The Associated Press...
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"I'm worried about the growing attacks that France is deploying against its European allies, against the Germans, the Luxembourgers, against all of the European countries."  France faces thinly concealed and growing frustration from Paris' European partners, irked at President Nicolas Sarkozy's strident position towards EU spending limits and attacks on the ECB. via Raw Story
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NEW YORK -- The UN oil-for-food program chief, under scrutiny for alleged corruption and mismanagement, blocked a proposed audit of his office around the same time he is accused of soliciting lucrative oil deals from Iraq, investigators said. A UN auditing team, which was severely understaffed, said running the $64 billion oil-for-food program was ''a high-risk activity" and a priority ...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday that he will seek tougher U.N. sanctions on Iran for continuing to produce nuclear fuel, but backed away from his foreign minister's warning that Europe should prepare for war.
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French doctors appealed on Monday to President Jacques Chirac to intervene and stop changes in wine advertising rules the physicians fear will lead to more deaths from alcohol-related illnesses and drunk ...
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"Next week in New York there will be discussions to try to have a resolution. If in the framework of the U.N. things are not sufficient, we will act in the European framework."  France's foreign minister appeared Tuesday to soften his weekend warning of war with Iran if it develops nuclear weapons, emphasizing instead the need to 'negotiate, negotiate, negotiate without respite.'Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner also had said that European leaders were considering their own economic sanctions against Iran over its refusal to halt the enrichment of uranium in its nuclear program.Kouchner, who is on his first trip to Moscow as France's top diplomat, on Sunday said 'we must prepare ourselves for the worst' if Iran obtains nuclear weapons, and he specified that could mean a war. Read more
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France must learn to work harder and rein in its &quot;excessive&quot; public sector if it is not to sink into irreversible economic decline, a committee of experts led by former IMF chief Michel Camdessus warned the government.
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France may follow Germany in imposing restrictions on a strain of genetically-modified corn made by the US giant Monsanto, Ecology Minister Alan Juppe was quoted Friday as saying.
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Â· Murder of French family in Mauritania adds to fears  Â· Decision is dire economic blow to host countries
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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner  said on Sunday his country had to prepare for the possibility  of war against Iran over its nuclear program, but he did not  believe any such action was imminent.
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France's ambassador to Chad said Sunday that six charity workers risking kidnap charges for trying to fly 103 children to France from the Chad-Darfur border must face the consequences of their acts.
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The French government's note of alarm isn't  directed solely towards Tehran but Russia and China too
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President Chirac urges French farmers to cultivate biofuel crops to keep agriculture at the heart of Europe.
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Societe Generale was warned about alleged rogue trader Jerome Kerviel last year, a prosecutor says.
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France said on Wednesday world powers must agree quickly on sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program or put the credibility of the United Nations at risk.
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The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has warned that the drive for environment-friendly bio-fuel risked pushing oil prices &quot;through the roof,&quot; the Financial Times reported Wednesday.