France says all must be done to avoid war with Iran
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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 Paris should prepare for that possibility.
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France will act "tirelessly" to ensure the safety of French citizens and other foreigners in Ivory Coast, President Jacques Chirac said Friday.
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PARIS - French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner yesterday strongly defended his sharp stance on Iran's nuclear program, saying his remarks that the world had to prepare for a possible war against Iran had been misinterpreted and that he was a man of peace.
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France's foreign minister calls on the UN Security Council to prevent "deadly ethnic conflict" in Kenya.
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"To those who say that we should handle Iran with kid gloves, since it could destabilize the region, I say this: look at its adventurism today and imagine what it would be like if Tehran thought itself one day protected by a nuclear umbrella"  The United States and France agree on how to pressure Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday.At a joint news conference Rice gave with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, both officials spoke of the need for new sanctions against Iran.'I think that there's, essentially, no difference in the way that we see the situation in Iran and what the international community must do,' Rice said.Warm words between the two foreign policy counterparts marked a narrowing of differences since the days that Kouchner's predecessor, Dominique de Villepin, helped block a United Nations resolution sought by the United States on Iraq. Read more
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French President Jacques Chirac said   on Tuesday Iran must suspend uranium enrichment, a process   which can produce fuel for power plants or bombs, before talks   aimed at defusing a nuclear standoff can go ahead.
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France's foreign minister says the world should prepare for the possibility of war over Iran's nuclear programme.
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The French government's note of alarm isn't  directed solely towards Tehran but Russia and China too
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PARIS -- President Jacques Chirac said in an interview that if Iran possessed one or two nuclear weapons it would not pose much of a danger, but if Iran were ever to launch a nuclear weapon against a country such as Israel, it would lead to the immediate destruction of Tehran.
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French President Jacques Chirac told  reporters an Iran that possessed one or two nuclear weapons  would not pose much of a danger and then retracted many of his  comments, the International Herald Tribune said on Thursday.
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Iran's foreign ministry criticized France on Monday for a blunt warning over the weekend that Europe must prepare for war if Tehran continues to flout international demands to stop producing nuclear fuel.
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France and its G8 partners should call for a complete suspension by Iran of its advanced uranium enrichment programme, the French foreign ministry said on Saturday.
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French foreign minister says country has to prepare for possibility of war against Iran over nuclear programme.
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French President Jacques Chirac has said that a nuclear-armed Iran was unacceptable, setting the record straight after stating that Tehran's possession of the bomb would not be &quot;very dangerous.&quot;
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French President Jacques Chirac backtracked on Thursday after saying it would not be dangerous for Iran to have a nuclear bomb, a sharp departure from France's position and the stance of close allies.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  said on Tuesday comments by French government officials  suggesting possible war over Iran&#39;s nuclear program were  intended for the media and should not be taken seriously.
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In his first major foreign policy speech as president, Nicolas Sarkozy of France said yesterday that Iran could be attacked militarily if it did not live up to its international obligations to curb its nuclear program.