France&#39;s Kouchner calls for broad-based Iraqi govt
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Iraq needs a broad-based government of  national unity and France could mediate to help set one up,  French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said in a newspaper  column on Monday.
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Visiting French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said Friday that France is prepared to collaborate in the reconstruction of Iraq, but that country must advance towards the "political" solution of its ...
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France&#39;s government and leaders of its Muslim minority are urging Iraqi militants to free two French journalists they are holding hostage to try to force Paris to revoke its ban on Muslim headscarves in schools.
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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 is stepping up its local contacts in Iraq over the mysterious disappearance of a French reporter and her translator in the country, the prime minister said.
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The French President has called for national unity for the sake of two French hostages in Iraq, as a row broke out over a failed attempt to free them.
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Meeting with leaders of the European Union in Brussels, the prime minister of Iraq&#39;s interim government, Ayad Allawi, has called for reconciliation with European nations and urged &quot;spectator&quot; states to engage in Iraq.
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France and Egypt want an international conference on Iraq ( news - web sites ) next month to examine the continued deployment of US-led troops there as part of a wide-ranging agenda, a spokesman for President ...
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French President Jacques Chirac, an outspoken critic of the U.S.-led Iraq war, sought to smooth relations with Iraq on Friday by inviting its president to Paris and denying he had snubbed Baghdad's prime minister.
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Iraq&#39;s interim leader appealed to Europe Friday to &quot;open a new chapter&quot; and overcome bitter divisions caused by the US-led war, to help prepare his violence-wracked country for historic elections in January.
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin makes a surprise call for democratic reform in Tunisia.
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Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi, appealed Thursday to what he called the &quot;spectator&quot; countries in the war in Iraq - specifically France and Germany - to become more involved in creating peace and prosperity there.
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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner  has said he supports talks between Iran and the U.N.&#39;s nuclear  watchdog about Tehran&#39;s atomic program, but the dialogue should  not drag on for years.
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French government officials called for the release of two journalists kidnapped in Iraq by a group demanding that France rescind a ban on Islamic headscarves in the nation&#39;s schools, Agence
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As France's top diplomat, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner can be surprisingly undiplomatic. Having apologized to Iraq's prime minister for saying he should be replaced, Kouchner is now under fire for raising the possibility of war with Iran.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has asked the U.N. Security Council to extend the mandate of the 160,000-strong multinational force in Iraq, according to a letter circulated Monday.
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Franceâs foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, sought to tone down remarks he made the day before that the world had to prepare for possible war against Iran.