Word: villepin
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...were crucial to the drafting of Security Council Resolution 1441, President Jacques Chirac cleverly positioned himself close to the Bush Administration while maintaining a degree of independence. But in the past few weeks, the French line against a war has hardened, and on Jan. 20, Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin went out of his way, without warning Powell, to oppose a rush to war in a public ambush...
...permanent slap at the U.S.'s face--very dangerous--and they threaten to make the Security Council irrelevant. If France abstains, it's not a player. If it votes yes, Chirac looks like a weather vane." Small wonder that, according to several sources, French Foreign Minister de Villepin was openly agitated--"shrill," said one observer--at the meetings in New York last week. ("All you talk about is war. That's all you want to talk about," de Villepin said to Powell at a lunch after his speech.) But if Blix returns from Baghdad with a report damning Saddam...
...movie." Surely, he snapped, "our friends have learned lessons from the past." Yet for a growing chorus of other folks, not least of all America's foremost allies, those lessons are no easy guide to the future. Accusing the U.S. of needless "impatience," French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin seemed to speak for much of the international community last week when he declared, "We see no justification right now for any military action...
...that Powell would deploy audio-visual aids to make his case. U.S. officials at the UN also hinted that next week's session could even render redundant the planned February 14 report-back by UN arms inspectors. The attendance of the special session by foreign ministers Dominique de Villepin of France and Joschka Fischer of Germany underscore the seriousness of the discussion...