France says Libya should not be missed
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said that Libya is an interlocutor that can't be missed and should find its place in the "concert of Nations" as well as in the region.
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France will set up a permanent military base of up to 500 troops in the United Arab Emirates, the French government announced Tuesday during a visit by President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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ANGOULEME, France  - Everything must be done to avoid the prospect of war with Iran, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said on Monday, a day after his foreign minister said the country should prepare for that possibility.
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President Jacques Chirac, who arrived in Libya on the first visit by a French head of state, expressed the desire for a "true partnership" with Tripoli after years of "heavy turbulence".
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A top European Commission official and France's first lady have traveled to Libya to seek the release of six medics convicted of infecting Libyan children with HIV, the European Commission announced on Sunday.
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Libya and the EU say relations can improve after the release of six Bulgarian medics, as the French head prepares to visit.
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French President Jacques Chirac, who vowed to forge a "true partnership" with Libya, wrapped up the latest top-level Western visit to Tripoli as it returns from years in the diplomatic wilderness.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy of France also reiterated that a nuclear-armed Iran was âunacceptableâ for France.
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France's foreign minister appealed Monday for the release of two French journalists abducted in Baghdad, saying he was in the Middle East to explain that his nation respects all religions and that he was not ...
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&quot;Given the increase in attacks since April and in the context of an elevated terrorist threat, travelers planning to go to the kingdom are advised to delay their trip for the moment except for imperative professional reasons,&quot; the French Foreign Ministry
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy took the frosty edge off ties with Algeria on Tuesday during his first visit outside Europe, saying France and its colony for 132 years must bury a rocky past and reinvent the future.
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The wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday paid a visit to Bulgarian medics facing the death sentence in Libya after being convicted of infecting children with the AIDS virus, a Libyan official said.
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TRIPOLI -- President Jacques Chirac arrived in Libya yesterday to turn the page on the two countries' thorny past and boost commercial ties, the first French head of state to visit Libya since it won independence in 1951. Chirac is the latest in a series of Western leaders to visit leader Moammar Khadafy after Libya agreed to pay compensation for ...
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The row continues in France over president Sarkozy meeting the Libyan leader. Especially after defense executives vowed to boost the country's arms exports
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Everything must be done to  avoid the prospect of war with Iran, French Prime Minister  Francois Fillon said on Monday, a day after his foreign  minister said the country should prepare for that possibility.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy travels to Tripoli to boost EU-Libya ties, after the release of six foreign medics.
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EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner is in Libya working with Cecilia Sarkozy, wife of the French president, to win the release of six foreign medics, a statement said Sunday.