Occupation brings only difficulties to Israel: French FM
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said Thursday ahead of his visit to Israel that peace for Israel can only be reached by giving up occupation of Palestinian territories.
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin declared Sunday that &quot;France will be extremely severe against those who perpetrate anti-semitism,&quot; after visiting the Jewish social
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PARIS : French President Jacques Chirac sharply criticized the international community&#39;s failure to help put an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying the world should &quot;impose&quot; peace talks.
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French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie warned Monday that without the stabilizing presence of foreign peacekeepers, the Ivory Coast risked erupting into bloodshed akin to
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier, visiting Israel to patch up tense relations, promised on Sunday that his country would do all it could to fight anti-Semitism.
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said on Tuesday France would release Yasser Arafat&#39;s medical dossier only to his family, despite a request for details by Palestinian leaders.
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Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, on a hasty visit to France after a Jewish soup kitchen was burned down, urged French officials and judges on Tuesday to punish anti-Semitic culprits more severely.
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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Friday that his country will not tolerate the wave of African migrants that continue to risk their lives to enter Europe illegally.
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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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In a letter to the troops, Israel's military chief acknowledged publicly for the first time Thursday that there were shortcomings in the military's performance during the recent fighting with Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.
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Syria will withdraw fully from Lebanon only after Israel ends its occupation of all Arab lands, Lebanese Defense Minister Mahmoud Hammoud declared yesterday.
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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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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is at odds with his foreign minister over whether the country's international television news channel should ditch English and Arabic, and broadcast only in French.
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Israel could end up on a collision  course with the European Union and face sanctions like  apartheid-era South Africa unless the Israeli-Palestinian  conflict is resolved, a confidential government report warns.
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Israel has the stamina for a long fight and is determined to defeat Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a group of new immigrants from France on Tuesday.
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Visiting Foreign Minister Michel Barnier pledged French help to ensure the success of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza pullout plan as he sought to open a new chapter in recently fraught relations.
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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.