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Article: Franco-German tiff blows over
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 18, 1994
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FRANCE and Germany yesterday sought to play down tensions
between the two allies after reported comments by the French
ambassador on Germany's European policies had threatened to cause a
publicly-exploding row.
The French ambassador in Bonn, Francois Scheer, was, in effect,
summoned by the German Foreign Ministry to explain himself. After
the talks, the French embassy issued a statement denying the
critical comments that had been attributed to Mr Scheer in advance
of the visit to Paris next week by Klaus Kinkel, the German Foreign
Minister.
The German Foreign Ministry, in turn, emphasised that Mr Kinkel
had talked to his French opposite number, Alain Juppe, and they had
assured each other of ...