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...team was also taking a cautious approach to foreign policy during its first weeks in office?and with good reason. The new government faced the task of allaying fears in friendly capitals that abrupt change was in the offing. Shortly after Mitterrand's inauguration last month, Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson set off for Bonn for meetings with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. His mission: to reassure France's foremost political and economic partner that "close and friendly Franco-German relations would continue" despite the departure of Schmidt's personal friend, cher Valéry, from...
Mitterrand and Cheysson have also voiced concern over the buildup of Soviet SS-20 missiles in Eastern Europe. They have strongly supported NATO's decision to respond by deploying U.S.-made Pershing II and cruise missiles on Western European soil...
Chatting in the White House three weeks ago with Claude Cheysson, France's newly appointed Foreign Minister, President Reagan became sympathetic as he talked shop...
...Cheysson: No, sir, that's not a problem in France...
...well. Most ruffled were the French, who supplied the Iraqis with the reactor, who lost a technician as the only reported casualty of the raid and whose newly elected Socialist President, François Mitterrand, had declared his willingness to strengthen ties with Israel. Said French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson: "I am saddened. This government has a great deal of sympathy for Israel, but we don't think such action serves the cause of peace in the area." In her typically blunt fashion, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher summed up the view of many others: "Armed attack in such circumstances cannot...