France ready to open up to Syria if it stays out of Lebanon
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France is ready to open up in a &quot;spectacular way&quot; to Syria if it stops meddling in Lebanon, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said in a newspaper interview Sunday.
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Syria has not withdrawn its  troops from Lebanon, as required by a resolution of the U.N.  Security Council adopted earlier this month, U.N.  Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Friday.
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President Emile Lahoud appointed pro-Syrian Omar Karami as Lebanon&#39;s prime minister on Thursday, a move likely to strengthen Syria&#39;s role in Lebanon despite international pressure on Damascus to pull out its troops.
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France has asked the United States to give it access &quot;as soon as possible&quot; to the freed Syrian driver of two French reporters being held hostage in Iraq, Foreign Minister Michel Barnier revealed.
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Dealing a blow to a U.S.-backed strategy for Lebanon, France has refused to participate in a meeting of nations that could send troops to help monitor a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, even though it may join &#151; and possibly even lead &#151; such a force.
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Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri will meet French President Jacques Chirac this week ahead of UN chief Kofi Annan's report on Syria's dominant role in Lebanon.
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France stressed that the Middle East peace process has to be pushed forward in a way to establish a viable Palestinian state and make late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat&#39;s dream come true.
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France stepped up security Friday morning at a military hospital outside Paris where Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be taken for treatment.
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The European Union's foreign policy chief urged Syria on Wednesday to do more to help stabilize Lebanon and Iraq during a visit that ended a two-year freeze on high-level EU contacts with Damascus.
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Germany and France backed away from their call to set a firm deadline for Turkey over its troubled EU candidacy as they warned Syria not to destabilise Lebanon.
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DAMASCUS, Syria A top UN envoy says Syria&#39;s president is ready to resume peace talks with Israel &quot;without conditions.&quot;.
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France and Germany have turned up the pressure on Syria, telling Damascus to stop destabilising Lebanon as mass protests against Prime Minister Fuad Siniora entered a fifth day.
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Syria's policy during more than a year of isolation by Western countries has been constant: Stick it out and hope the other side bends.
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France is facing a "high and permanent" terrorist threat, the country's interior minister says.
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Syria on Wednesday suspended  diplomatic cooperation with France aimed at ending the  political crisis in Lebanon -- a move that mirrored earlier  similar action by Paris.
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France is to suspend diplomatic contacts with Syria until progress is made on choosing a new Lebanese president.
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Lebanon said on Tuesday Syria would  redeploy some 3,000 troops from the outskirts of Beirut east  toward the Syrian-Lebanon border, in an apparent bid to ease  U.S.-led pressure over its influence on Lebanon.