Article: War on Iraq must be avoided at all costs: French minister

Article: FRENCH MINISTER CONDEMNS IRAQ OCCUPATION
United Press International;  May 14, 2004 ;     294 words ... ... Press International 05-14-2004 French minister condemns Iraq occupation PARIS, May 14, 2004 ... France's foreign minister says Iraq is a black hole sucking in the ... foreign ministers for discussions on Iraq and the Middle East. Barnier ...

Article: French Minister: U.S. Iraq Plan a Start
AP Online;  May 12, 2003 ;     397 words ... ... U.S. proposal for governing postwar Iraq is a starting point, but he urged a stronger ... said American civilian administrators in Iraq should be obliged to report regularly to ... provide for a U.S.-British occupation of Iraq for at least a year and give the coalition ...

Article: U.N. should have inspectors role in Iraq, French ...
AP Worldstream;  May 29, 2003 ;     640 words ... ... search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but also expressed confidence that her ... N. Security Council approval for an Iraq invasion. France, with Germany and Russia ... to U.S. and British plans to invade Iraq to halt Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's ...

Article: IRAQIS AGREE TO CAT STEVENS' APPEAL FRENCH MINISTER ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  October 14, 1990 ;     700+ words ... ... release four British Muslims held hostage in Iraq after former pop singer Cat Stevens appealed ... goes by the name Yusuf Islam, has been in Iraq trying to arrange the release of more than ... the first of British men held hostage in Iraq and Kuwait since the Aug. 2 invasion ...

Article: French minister to discuss Iraq with ...
AP Worldstream;  April 4, 2003 ;     449 words ... ... foreign ministers who united against war in Iraq and now want the United Nations to oversee ... diplomatic activity has mounted to address Iraq's humanitarian needs and the sensitive ... of State Colin Powell to discuss postwar Iraq. France, Germany and Russia led diplomatic ...

Article: French minister to meet Pope Friday and hold talks ...
AP Worldstream;  April 3, 2003 ;     349 words ... ... and Italian counterparts on the war in Iraq. The foreign ministers of France, Russia ... vocal in their opposition to the war in Iraq _ were holding a working lunch in Paris ... Russia were to discuss every aspect of the Iraq crisis during their meeting, Valero said ...

Article: French minister says arrest of seven suspected of ...
AP Worldstream;  January 26, 2005 ;     483 words ... ... network funneling French combatants to Iraq. The minister, Dominique Perben, gave ... network for sending Islamic combatants to Iraq exists in France. The investigation was ... French were discovered in recent months in Iraq. Perben suggested the arrests were timed ...