Word: villepin
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...consensus rather than confrontation. Only after the invisible infrastructure of a modern state had been established would Iraq move to elections for a government and sovereignty. But that idea involved one fatal conceit: that the clock would move at a speed of the Administration's choosing. Dominique de Villepin, the French Foreign Minister, said acidly last week, "The American representatives on the ground continue to use the language of all the world's occupation regimes--'Just a little more time...
Three reasons. First, there is something about Dominique de Villepin, the oleaginous French Foreign Minister--with his dashing good looks, his volumes of poetry, his love of the word logic--that just gets under American skins...
...Three reasons. First, there is something about Dominique de Villepin, the oleaginous French Foreign Minister - with his dashing good looks, his volumes of poetry, his love of the word logic - that just gets under American skins...
...well. Chirac has muted his position somewhat on Iraq, and no one is talking about a French veto this time. In Berlin, the French President spoke of a transfer of sovereignty to the Iraqi people "within a few months"; a mere week before, his excitable Foreign Minister, Dominique de Villepin, had demanded it "within a month." But that doesn't mean France is ready to fold, and with the German population as critical of U.S. actions in Iraq as the French, Schröder is not likely to switch from old to new Europe now; Blair knows it, and Bush...
...ruling Social Democratic Party, "which in the far right's eyes is responsible for the multicultural society in Sweden, such as bringing immigrants into the country." Last Friday some 1,300 people, including British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and Foreign Ministers Joschka Fischer of Germany and Dominique de Villepin of France, attended a solemn memorial service at Stockholm's City Hall. "Anna Lindh is no longer with us. That idea still feels so foreign, so difficult to accept," said Prime Minister Göran Persson. A week after the stabbing, the country's mood remained grim and unsteady, as hundreds...