U.S. praises France's Sarkozy on Darfur: press
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has helped create a better climate between the United States and Europe and could help a diplomatic effort to support Iraq, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried told a newspaper.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday they were prepared to make a joint visit to Darfur to push for peace in the crisis-stricken Sudanese region.
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NEW YORK, Sep 10, 2004 (PANA) -- In spite of Sudan&#39;s rejection of the US description of the Darfur crisis as genocide, Washington said it had received a &quot;very positive&quot; response at the Security Council late Thursday to a draft resolution aimed at
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France&#39;s foreign minister on Tuesday praised an administrative panel&#39;s decision to ban satellite broadcasts by Al-Manar Television station, as officials in Lebanon slammed the move as proof of Zionist pressure.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday hailed the French parliament's adoption of the European Union's new reform treaty as a "success" that restores the country to its rightful place in Europe.
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Sudanese President Omar Hassan  al-Bashir welcomes U.N. support for an African Union force  monitoring a widely ignored truce in Sudan's violent Darfur  region, state media reported on Thursday.
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Saying "silence kills", French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged delegates to a meeting on the humanitarian crisis in Darfur on Monday to find a way to stop the violence ravaging Sudan's vast west.
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President Jacques Chirac made U.S. film  director Steven Spielberg a knight in the French Legion of  Honor on Sunday, hailing him as a great filmmaker committed to  fighting hatred and intolerance.
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France hosts a meeting of senior officials from more than a dozen countries on Monday aimed at providing funds and other support for international efforts to stabilize Sudan's violent Darfur region.
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France declared it would intervene to protect the Chadian government if called upon and a Darfur rebel group said it had sent troops to help bolster the president.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy said  France could boost its presence in Afghanistan to help the  Afghan army and police in a surprise visit to give French  troops his Christmas greetings.
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The United States declared on  Thursday that the violence in Sudan's Darfur region amounted to  genocide and urged the world to back an expanded African  peacekeeping force to halt the bloodshed.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in an interview published Saturday he will support the candidacy of former socialist minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn to head the International Monetary Fund.
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French Interior Minister and presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy paid tribute Saturday to New York City's police and residents for their bravery on Sept. 11, 2001, two days ahead of the anniversary of the attacks.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Paris Sunday to take part in an international conference on Darfur, hoping to secure &quot;concrete&quot; results to end violence that Washington has termed &quot;genocide.&quot;
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The United States on Sunday applauded the decision by the Paris Club on slashing Iraq&#39;s debts and urged other countries to follow suit.
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Britain "fully supports" U.S. efforts to toughen U.N. Security Council sanctions against Sudan because of the situation in Darfur, a British official traveling with Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday.