Chirac denies snubbing Iraqi leader
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Jacques Chirac, the French president, has denied he snubbed the Iraqi interim prime minister by failing to attend a lunch hosted by Iyad Allawi in Brussels.
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The leaders of France and Romania on Wednesday defended their decision not to invite Lebanese President Emile Lahoud to a summit of French-speaking countries here.Comment
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French President Jacques Chirac said Friday there was "no reason" to give up hope that two French journalists held hostage in Iraq since August will be released.
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France backed UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's description of the US-led war on Iraq as &quot;illegal&quot; with Foreign Minister Michel Barnier saying that that long-held stance was why his country had opposed joining the conflict.
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French President Jacques Chirac said Tuesday his country is "entirely committed" to taking part in an international conference on Iraq next month.
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President Jacques Chirac said on Sunday his troops would not be withdrawn from France&#39;s former colony Ivory Coast where expatriots have fled an outbreak of anti-French violence.
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French President Jacques Chirac said Tuesday his country is entirely committed to taking part in an international conference on Iraq next month.
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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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France will set no precondition for the international conference on Iraq scheduled on Nov. 22-23 in Egypt, French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier declared Monday on French television news channel LCI.
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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 cooperation on a number of international
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French President Jacques Chirac said Tuesday that he does not want to set a new deadline for Iran to suspend nuclear activities, which could be used to develop atomic weapons, despite Tehran's defiance of U.N. Security Council demands.
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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 toned down his criticism of Britain&#39;s role in the Iraq war as he arrived yesterday on a two-day visit celebrating the Entente
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Paris: President Jacques Chirac announced on Sunday he would not seek re-election next month after 45 years in frontline politics and made a final appeal to French voters to shun extremism.Comment
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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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French President Jacques Chirac today spoke of the âtrue friendshipâ between his country and Britain but again stressed his opposition to the kind of military intervention which started the war in Iraq.
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Britain got very little in return for supporting the US-led invasion of Iraq, and US policies make it all but impossible for anyone to act as a bridge between Washington and Europe, French President Jacques Chirac said in an interview published Tuesday.