Reuters
Fri Jun 16, 2006 PARIS - The fight against terrorism must observe the rule of law, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said on Friday in a thinly-veiled criticism of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
"In order for the fight against terrorism to be as effective as possible we have to act while respecting our values and our rules," de Villepin said during a speech at the Institute of Higher Studies of National Defense. "Let us avoid zones where there are no rights, let us reject anything that can give rise to arbitrariness, whether this means military interventions without the international community's authorization, exceptional tribunals, or detention centers outside the framework of international law," he said. |
Reuters
Sat Jun 17, 2006 BERLIN - Germany called on Saturday for the world's leading nuclear powers to reduce their atomic arsenals as they press Iran to curb its nuclear program.
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier urged the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council -- the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France -- to make concessions in the context of the Iran dispute, Spiegel magazine reported. "I am in fact of the view that, beyond the current Iran conflict, we must review the worldwide nuclear armament status," Steinmeier told Spiegel. |
AFP
June 16, 2006 AJACCIO, France - Two bomb blasts caused damage but no casualties in Corsica overnight, hitting a bar and a holiday home, a security services source said Friday.
In the seaside town of Porticcio, in the south of the island, an empty brasserie was badly damaged by a blast at 4am. "There was substantial damage," the source said, without giving further detail. The other blast happened at the site of a holiday home under construction at Piana, another southern seaside spot, the same source said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blasts. |
AFP
June 14, 2006 PARIS - Anti-globalization icon Jose Bové said Wednesday he would run in the French presidential election next year, pledging to pull off left-wing votes from the main opposition Socialist Party (PS).
"I am running to unite the anti-globalization left, the left that stands for the environment, and against the obsessive focus on productivity and economic liberalism," he said, deeming himself the man for those "to the left of the Socialists". The militant farmer, who helped rally the French against the European Union constitution last year, told the newspaper Libération he was "ready to take on the responsibilities of going to Elysée Palace", referring to the presidential office in Paris. |
AFP
June 16, 2006 PARIS - French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said Friday he would press with plans for state-controlled gas company Gaz de France (GDF) to be absorbed by Suez, an energy and utilities group, despite strong opposition within his own party.
Saying he was "determined to move forward" on the matter, Villepin added however that it was time for "realism, determination and at the same time, to take care to confer" with those involved in the process. He was responding to a report in the French daily Le Monde that said the project to partially privatise GDF, a necessary step before the deal could take place, might be shelved. |
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