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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01PARIS11204 |
FRENCH VIEWS OF AFGHANISTAN'S POLITICAL FUTURE [...] (C) WE DELIVERED REFTEL POINTS TO FOREIGN MINISTER VEDRINE'S OFFICE AND TO MFA AFGHAN DESK OFFICER BRUCE BOURDON ON OCTOBER 11 AND FOLLOWED-UP WITH A MEETING WITH BOURDON ON OCTOBER 12. BOURDON TOLD US THAT THE FRENCH WERE ENGAGED IN DISCUSSIONS WITH THEIR EU PARTNERS REGARDING AFGHANISTAN'S P [...] |
2001-10-16 05:12:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | AF FR PK PREL |
| 03PARIS5741 |
FRENCH DENY NEGOTIATING WITH FARC FOR RELEASE OF [...] (C) DURING AN AUGUST 7 MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER VILLEPIN'S CABINET DIRECTOR PIERRE VIMONT ON A RANGE OF ISSUES, CHARGE ASKED DIRECTLY WHETHER FRANCE HAD NEGOTIATED WITH THE FARC IN AN EFFORT TO SECURE THE RELEASE OF FRENCH-COLOMBIAN CITIZEN INGRID BETANCOURT. VIMONT EXPLICITLY DENIED TH [...] |
2003-08-07 19:15:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER CO BR FR |
| 04PARIS3123 |
PREVENTING TRAVEL TO POSSIBLE KONGRA-GEL [...] No summary [...] |
2004-04-23 17:18:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PTER PINS IZ TU EU SY JO FR |
| 04PARIS4951 |
TITLE III LIBERTAD ACT WAIVER: FRANCE [...] (C) Summary: In response to reftel, we met June 24 with the MFA Cuba Desk Officer, who noted that France had been sharply critical of Cuba's human rights record bilaterally and as an EU member. Even before Havana unilaterally refused EU and French assistance, France had reevaluated its posit [...] |
2004-06-29 15:45:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC FR CU PREL |
| 04PARIS5065 |
CLARIFICATION REGARDING LIBERTAD ACT TITLE III [...] (U) AS PER REFTEL, POST ON JULY 2 DELIVERED LIBERTAD ACT TITLE III TALKING POINTS TO MFA CUBA DESK OFFICER ERIC CHAUX AND DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE MFA BUREAU FOR ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL AFFAIRS JACQUES MAILLARD. BOTH PROMISED TO INFORM APPROPRIATE PARTIES IN ADVANCE OF THE JULY 6 CFSP MEETIN [...] |
2004-07-02 16:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC PREL CA FR |
| 04PARIS5419 |
GOF/NGOS AND CUBAN OUTREACH [...] (C) Summary: The GOF shares USG goals of facilitating a transition towards democracy, supporting Cuban Civil society, and preparing for a post-dictatorship Cuba. The GOF, French public, and NGOs, however, are critical of the US embargo of Cuba. France's Cuba policy remains anchored in the EU [...] |
2004-07-19 16:57:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CU FR |
| 04PARIS5730 |
FRENCH LABOR CONCERNED WITH VENEZUELA [...] (SBU) Emboffs met July 23 at the unions' request with Michele Simonnin, of the trade union Workers' Strength (CGT-FO) and Philippe Selva of the General Confederation of Workers (CGT), two of the three largest labor unions in France, to discuss US foreign policy regarding Venezuela. The labor [...] |
2004-08-02 16:07:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR PREL VE ELAB |
| 04PARIS5906 |
"J,ACCUSE:" SHARON COMMENTS SPARK QUESTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Israeli PM Ariel Sharon's July 18 call for Jews to emigrate from France to Israel "as early as possible" in order to escape the "wildest anti-Semitism" touched off a barrage of criticism from both the GoF and French Jewish community. Although Sharon had qualified h [...] |
2004-08-10 08:14:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IS KIRF PHUM PREL |
| 04PARIS5935 |
FRENCH RESPONSE TO VENEZUELA REFERENDUM DEMARCHE [...] (C) PolOff met with MFA Venezuelan desk officer Hedi Picquart on August 9 and delivered demarche as per reftel. Picquart noted that France had hoped EU international election observers would participate in the August 15 referendum vote. Unfortunately, the GoV-imposed restrictions were deemed [...] |
2004-08-10 16:22:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE KPAO FR KDEM |
| 04PARIS6076 |
FRENCH CEMETERY DESECRATIONS AND LINK TO EXTREME [...] (SBU) Summary: France has seen a rash of hate crimes resulting in the desecration of nearly 400 Jewish and Muslim tombs since the beginning of the year. Most recently, 56 Jewish graves were painted with neo-Nazi symbols and xenophobic slogans in Lyon on August 8, although recent developments [...] |
2004-08-17 08:46:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KIRF PHUM FR KISL |
| 04PARIS6889 |
OSCE SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVES ON ANTI-SEMITISM AND [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to OSCE desk officer Guillaume de Kerdrel on September 17. Kerdrel indicated that the same points had been discussed during a September 1 meeting in Washington with Department officials and a French delegation that included the Ambassador for Holocaust Iss [...] |
2004-09-17 16:17:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM FR OSCE |
| 04PARIS7539 |
CUBAN ANTI-EMBARGO RESOLUTION: FRENCH RESPONSE [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-14 15:18:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD CU FR UNGA |
| 04PARIS7699 |
FRENCH RESPONSE TO VENEZUELA HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Venezuelan desk officer Hedi Piquart on October 20. Piquart stressed that while France is concerned with the state of human rights in Venezuela, it does not share our sense of urgency and considers it too early to make any public statements on the [...] |
2004-10-21 10:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL FR VE |
| 04PARIS7928 |
TENSION IN TAHITI AS POLITICAL STRUGGLE PLAYS OUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Political turmoil, confusion, and charges of corruption reign in Papeete and Paris as both Oscar Temaru and Gaston Flosse claim to be the legitimate president of French Polynesia in the aftermath of an October 9 vote of censure and subsequent October 22 vote for president in the [...] |
2004-10-29 11:06:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT FR FP XV |
| 04PARIS8063 |
ARAFAT IN CONTINUED, POSSIBLY IRREVERSIBLE COMA [...] (C) Summary: As of 1030 local (0430 EST) November 5, MFA officials described Arafat as in a continued coma, with uncertainty whether his condition is irreversible or what permanent damage he might suffer if he regains consciousness. There is still no diagnosis on the cause of his condition. I [...] |
2004-11-05 11:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS FR |
| 04PARIS8159 |
DEMARCHE ON HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS: FRENCH [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA DAS-equivalent for Human Rights in the Directorate of United Nations and International Organizations Affairs Beatrice le Fraper du Hellen on November 9. She indicated that France would co-sponsor all of the reftel resolutions and would vote against [...] |
2004-11-09 17:29:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL FR |
| 04PARIS8227 |
FRANCE'S EU/CUBA POSITION [...] (C) Summary: Poloff delivered reftel demarche and non-paper to MFA Cuba Desk Officer Eric Chaux and U.S. desk officer Jean-Charles Bou on November 12. Chaux opened by saying that even if there were a change in the EU common policy toward Cuba, the GoF would remain critical of the Castro regi [...] |
2004-11-12 17:54:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL FR CU |
| 04PARIS8949 |
INTERIOR MINISTER VILLEPIN DISCUSSES ANTI-SEMITISM [...] (U) Summary: Throughout his meeting with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum officials on November 19, Interior Minister Villepin underlined the GOF determination to fight anti-Semitism in every way possible. Villepin decried the rise in the number of anti-Semitic acts in France, commente [...] |
2004-12-14 14:24:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KISL KIRF FR |
| 04PARIS8983 |
FRANCE: 2004 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] (U) Post encloses the 2004 annual terrorism report for France. Per reftel, Word versions will be e-mailed to John Kincannon and Kiersten McCutchan at S/CT. Post POC is Political Officer Peter Kujawinski, x.2575. France ) 2004 OVERVIEW In 2004, France made progress in a number of areas [...] |
2004-12-16 08:30:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC FR |
| 04PARIS8990 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - MIDDLE EAST [...] MIDDLE EAST 2. U.S. DEFICIT 3. TURKEY B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: PRESIDENT CHIRAC'S TELEVISED INTERVIEW LAST EVENING ON TURKEY, HIS "YES, BUT ONLY IF," AND THE OPENING OF NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE EU IS TODAY'S NUMBER ONE LEAD STORY. INTERVIEWS AND COMMENTARIES ABOUND, ANALYZING THE PRESIDENT [...] |
2004-12-16 11:09:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 04PARIS9025 |
FRENCH LOBBYING EFFORTS TO SUPPORT UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) As per reftel, Poloff spoke to MFA DAS-equivalent for Human Rights in the Directorate of United Nations and International Organizations Affairs Beatrice le Fraper du Hellen about the need to lobby third countries against supporting any "no action motions" that might be brought by Iran or [...] |
2004-12-17 17:25:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL FR EUN |
| 04PARIS9130 |
FRANCE AND SOUTHERN AFRICA [...] (C) SUMMARY: This is the first of several messages reviewing France's relations with Africa. The southern African region currently attracts less French attention than any other region of Africa. With no francophone countries, and only one country currently engaged in conflict (Angola, at muc [...] |
2004-12-27 14:15:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AO BC LT MI MZ WA SF WZ ZA ZI ZU XA FR |
| 04PARIS9133 |
FRANCE AND EAST AFRICA [...] (C) SUMMARY. France's principal long-term concern in East Africa is the management of its relations with Djibouti where it maintains a large permanent military presence. The crisis in Darfur has prompted a more active French policy with regard to Sudan, but it remains largely a "Chad problem" [...] |
2004-12-27 14:48:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM DJ ER ET KE SO SU TZ UG XW XA FR |
| 04PARIS9137 |
FRANCE: UPDATE ON IMPLEMENTATION OF EMERGENCY [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Following considerable Embassy effort to bring about GOF coordination, the French Government finally has issued a directive requiring air carrier compliance with the No Fly and Selectee Emergency Amendments (EAs). The directive effectively gives Air France (AF [...] |
2004-12-27 16:39:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR PTER FR |
| 04PARIS9145 |
FRANCE AND THE INDIAN OCEAN STATES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The standoff in 2002 between Marc Ravalomanana and Didier Ratsiraka following the disputed election in Madagascar was a serious political crisis for the government of France, exposing divisions between the MFA and the presidency. With the crisis resolved, France's attention to t [...] |
2004-12-28 10:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM CN MA MP SE XW XA FR |
| 04PARIS9146 |
FRANCE AND CENTRAL AFRICA (SOUTH) [...] (C) SUMMARY. France continues to seek solutions for the crisis in the Great Lakes through policies designed to support DRC President Kabila and the transition process and to block Rwandan interference in Congolese affairs. France's history in the Rwandan genocide complicates their ability to [...] |
2004-12-28 10:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM BY CF CG CT EK GB RW TP ZF XA |
| 04PARIS9147 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - UKRAINE: VICTORY OF [...] UKRAINE: VICTORY OF YUSHCHENKO (B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: THE TRAGEDY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA CONTINUES TO DOMINATE HEADLINES TODAY AND EDITORIALISTS REFLECT ON THE SCOPE OF THE CATASTROPHE, THE UNPREDICTABILITY OF NATURAL PHENOMENA AND THE SOLIDARITY OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IN TIMES OF CRI [...] |
2004-12-28 11:20:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 04PARIS9154 |
U.S. EMBASSY DEMARCHE TO THE FRENCH CONCERNING POSSIBLE PROLIFERATION-RELATED ACTIVITIES BETWEEN INDIA'S DEFENSE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION (DRDO) AND THE FRENCH FIRM SAGEM [...] (S) On 12 December 2004, EST officer Alexander Tounger delivered a demarche and provided a non-paper to French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC) David Bertolotti, MFA Deputy Director of Disarmament and Nuclear Non-proliferation, concerning the planned visit in m [...] |
2004-12-28 15:05:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC HK PK CM GM FR MTCRE |
| 04PARIS9159 |
GOF LAUNCHES ANOTHER PROPOSAL TO FOSTER MORE [...] (C) Summary: Internal power struggles continue to plague the Council for the Muslim Faith (CFCM), the GoF-created umbrella organization which serves as the official French Muslim interlocutor with the government. Meanwhile, in the political arena, two leading contenders in the 2007 president [...] |
2004-12-28 15:36:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL PGOV PTER KDEM FR |
| 04PARIS9160 |
UKRAINE: FRENCH ON YUSHCHENKO VICTORY [...] (U) MFA desk officer for Ukraine Benoit Fremont described French satisfaction that the re-run of the second round of the Ukrainian presidential election had been conducted freely and fairly. Fremont agreed that while there had been some problems with the balloting, the level of fraud had not [...] |
2004-12-28 16:02:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EU UP FR PL |
| 04PARIS9167 |
FRANCE AND CENTRAL AFRICA (NORTH) [...] (C) SUMMARY. Chad, where France maintains a permanent miltary presence, and the Central African Republic (CAR), where France is supporting military and economic reform are key countries for France's Africa policy. The crisis in Darfur has caused concern in France about additional threats to [...] |
2004-12-29 11:22:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM CM CT CH ZF XA FR |
| 04PARIS9171 |
CIVAIR: DGAC RESPONSE TO U.S. CARRIER OPERATIONS IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While remaining firm in their request to eight U.S. carriers, operating under FAR 135 (commuter and on-demand operations) in French Caribbean territories to supply documentation supporting their requests for "revalidation of any non-scheduled flight authorizations," French avi [...] |
2004-12-29 14:18:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON FR |
| 04PARIS9188 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - TSUNAMI: AN INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-30 11:56:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 04PARIS9191 |
TFX001: FRENCH CASUALTIES AND HUMANITARIAN [...] SUMMARY. On December 29, poloff spoke with MFA India Desk Officer, Louis Vassy, about French victims of the tsunami of December 26 and French plans for humanitarian aid SIPDIS packages for the regions hit hardest by the disaster. Vassy elaborated on the deaths and voiced concerns that the [...] |
2004-12-30 13:11:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID CASC FR |
| 05PARIS1001 |
HAITI: FRENCH UNLIKELY TO CHANGE VIEWS ON HAITI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: French MFA and Cooperation (USAID-equivalent) officials report that any decision to change the venue or date of the proposed ministerial meeting on development assistance for Haiti would have to be taken by Foreign Minister Barnier or even President Chirac. If we [...] |
2005-02-16 17:02:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL EFIN HA FR |
| 05PARIS1004 |
KYOTO: FRENCH MEDIA REACT TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE [...] Summary. The implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, which takes effect today, dominates headlines in the French print press, and is the focus of a number of special reports, supplements and editorials. Embassy Paris offers this analysis of the principal themes in the coverage over the last t [...] |
2005-02-16 18:54:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SENV ENRG KPAO FR |
| 05PARIS1008 |
INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HYDROGEN ECONOMY [...] Summary: The International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy (IPHE) Steering Committee (SC) convened in Paris, France from January 26 to 28, 2005. The IPHE SC was co- chaired by Assistant Secretary of Energy David Garman and Assistant Secretary of Transportation Emil Frankel. All IPHE m [...] |
2005-02-17 11:04:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON FR |
| 05PARIS1011 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - LEBANON - SYRIA U.S. [...] LEBANON - SYRIA 2. U.S. DIPLOMACY B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: FRONT PAGES ARE OVERWHELMINGLY DEVOTED TO THE LEBANESE PEOPLE'S ANGER TOWARD SYRIA AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF RAFIK HARIRI: "ANTI-SYRIAN ANGER" (LE FIGARO); "ANTI-SYRIAN REVOLT" (LIBERATION); "ANGER RISING IN BEIRUT AGAINST SYRIA" [...] |
2005-02-17 12:01:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS1014 |
SOCIALIST PARTY KICKS OFF CAMPAIGN TO VOTE "YES" [...] (U) Summary: France's Socialist Party (PS) kicked off ahead of schedule a campaign intended to promote a "yes" vote among left-leaning voters in the referendum on the proposed EU Constitution tentatively scheduled for next June. Among the slogans chosen for this campaign is "Yes to a stronge [...] |
2005-02-17 12:47:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB FR PGOV PINR PREL SOCI |
| 05PARIS103 |
IRAN/EU3: GUARDED FRENCH REACTION TO U/S BOLTON [...] (C) On January 5, MFA Disarmament Office Deputy Veronique Vouland informed us that the MFA had taken on board U/S Bolton's letter re Iranian processing activities (reftels). She said they had not been surprised by the letter, but she also did not indicate whether France agreed with our assessm [...] |
2005-01-06 17:28:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM KNNP PREL FR |
| 05PARIS1032 |
UNESCO SCIENCE SECTOR LAUNCHES CAPACITY [...] SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: SINCE THE U.S. RE-ENTRY, USDEL HAS ENCOURAGED UNESCO TO ASSUME A LEADERSHIP ROLE IN PROMOTING CAPACITY BUILDING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. THIS STRATEGY HAS MET WITH SUCCESS. IN A LETTER TO AMBASSADOR OLIVER, UNESCO NATURAL SCIENCES SECTOR DIRECTOR ERDELEN ANNOU [...] |
2005-02-17 17:21:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA OPDC PHSA PBTS IHO KSI UNESCO |
| 05PARIS1038 |
FRANCE/COMOROS: AZALI VISIT [...] (C) Embassy Africa watcher met February 16 with Remi Marechaux, MFA DAS-equivalent for southern Africa and the Indian Ocean, for a read-out on Comoran President Azali Assoumani's January 31-February 2 official visit to France. Marechaux said that the visit was largely symbolic, as part of an [...] |
2005-02-17 17:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CN XO FR |
| 05PARIS1039 |
DARFUR ACCOUNTABILITY: AMB. PROSPER'S DISCUSSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: France remains committed to referring those responsible for violations of international humanitarian and human rights law in Darfur to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The USG proposal for a hybrid UN/AU tribunal raises French concerns over universal standards of justice, [...] |
2005-02-17 18:14:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KJUS KAWC SU FR |
| 05PARIS104 |
GTMO AND DJAMEL BEGHAL TRIAL UPDATES [...] (C) Summary: The investigation against four former GTMO detainees (reftels A and B) appears to be proceeding well; all appeals for pre-trial release have been denied and the investigating judges feel confident that the trial, likely to begin this summer, will result in conviction. However, in a [...] |
2005-01-06 17:58:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | FR PGOV PINR PREL KISL |
| 05PARIS1041 |
STOCKTAKING WITH FRENCH PRESIDENCY DIPLOMATIC [...] (C) Summary: DCM spoke with President Chirac's Diplomatic Advisor Maurice Gourdault-Montagne (MGM) February 17 to review French position on key issues in advance of President Bush's February 21 meeting with President Chirac and the subsequent meetings with NATO and EU leaders. Gourdault-Monta [...] |
2005-02-17 18:43:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR SY IR LE NATO |
| 05PARIS1050 |
GDP INCREASED 2.3 PERCENT IN 2004; UNEMPLOYMENT [...] SUMMARY. According to the latest flash estimate, French GDP increased a relatively high 2.8 percent (annualized) in the fourth quarter of 2004, which means France posted a decent 2.3 percent growth rate for 2004. Domestic demand revived, contributing to significant import growth. [...] |
2005-02-18 11:03:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR PBIO |
| 05PARIS1052 |
PARIS CLUB - JANUARY 2005 TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (U) Following are summaries of country discussions during the January 12-13, 2005 Paris Club session. The Paris Club's President, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, chaired the session. Secretary General (SecGen) Emmanuel Moulin represented the Secretariat. Representatives of non-Paris Club members Brazil, [...] |
2005-02-18 11:11:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR |
| 05PARIS1053 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - LEBANON - SYRIA, PRESIDENT [...] LEBANON - SYRIA 2. PRESIDENT BUSH IN EUROPE (B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: FRONT-PAGES IN THE FRENCH PRESS TODAY DEAL WITH A VARIETY OF SUBJECTS FROM THE RECORD PROFITS OF FRENCH COMPANIES, NAMELY OIL GIANT TOTAL THAT HAS SURPASSED ITS ALL-TIME RECORD, TO THE MISUSE OF PUBLIC FUNDS OR THE [...] |
2005-02-18 11:30:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS1054 |
FRANCE: NEW AGRICULTURE MINISTER HIGHLIGHTS WTO, [...] This is an action request. See Para 6. 2.(U) Summery: France's new Agriculture Minister Dominique Bussereau told Ambassador he would welcome a visit to France by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns. During a call by Ambassador Feb 17, Bussereau said he hoped to visit the United State [...] |
2005-02-18 11:50:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD TBIO FR |
| 05PARIS1055 |
FRENCH FORMER PRESIDENT GISCARD D'ESTAING ON [...] (C) Former French President Giscard d'Estaing, over lunch February 16, told Ambassador Leach that he had been impressed by Secretary Rice on her recent visit to Paris. He thought that following the Iraqi elections and the constitution of an Iraqi government, France would be more open to assi [...] |
2005-02-18 12:04:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR TU IZ SY UK EUN LB PINT |
| 05PARIS1065 |
AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS [...] ATTENTION 2. TOGO 3. RWANDA 4. SUDAN 5. ZIMBABWE 6. AID TO AFRICA 7. CAMEROON Â [...] |
2005-02-18 14:23:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO XA |
| 05PARIS107 |
SYRIAN FORMER HOSTAGE IN IRAQ FILES LAWSUIT [...] (C) Summary and comment: French officials, in preliminary comments to us, stressed the strictly private nature of a lawsuit filed in a French court by a Syrian former hostage in Iraq, who accused named U.S. military officials of torture and war crimes during the weeklong period he was in MNF-1 [...] |
2005-01-06 18:55:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM IZ FR |
| 05PARIS1081 |
NEWBORN FRENCH RESEARCH AGENCY AND ITS PAINFUL [...] Summary. France advanced its science agenda with the establishment of a National Research Agency (ANR, ref A) which held its first meeting on February 15. This new, NSF-style, "agency of means" is part of the government's ambitious effort to renovate France's research organization and boost [...] |
2005-02-18 17:06:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPL EFIN KSCA TPHY FR KBIO |
| 05PARIS1082 |
FRENCH ON FEB. 21 GAERC [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel A) points to MFA DAS-equivalent for Common Foreign and Security Policy Pascal LeDeunff on Feb. 11 and followed up in conversation Feb. 18. LeDeunff emphasized that ministers would spend the bulk of the Feb. 21 GAERC in preparing for the EU summit with President Bus [...] |
2005-02-18 18:04:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IR UP MD SU CG SR BK FR |
| 05PARIS1084 |
EU CHINA ARMS EMBARGO: EXPANDING ON FRENCH DEFENSE [...] (C) During the course of a meeting on an unrelated issue with Mr. Camille Grand, Diplomatic Advisor to Defense Minister Alliot-Marie, we inquired about the minister's comments in the recent Financial Times article entitled "France urges end to China arms embargo." We noted our confusion over [...] |
2005-02-18 18:53:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM ETTC PREL FR EUN |
| 05PARIS1085 |
ADDITIONAL FRENCH THOUGHTS FOR NATO SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: MFA and Presidency advisors preparing for next week's February 22 NATO summit told us that the EU -- not NATO - is best placed to handle police and gendarme training for the Iraqis. In line with the comments made by French Presidency Diplomatic Advisor Maurice Gourdault-Montagne [...] |
2005-02-18 19:09:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL FR NATO EUN |
| 05PARIS1086 |
OECD/NEA MULTILATERAL NUCLEAR ENVIRONMENT [...] A meeting of the Contributing Parties was held at OECD Headquarters prior to the full Committee meeting chaired by Patrick Reyners, Head of Legal Affairs, NEA. Swedish Committee representative Nystrom, was re- elected as the Committee co-chairperson representing the donor Parties. All Parties [...] |
2005-02-22 08:35:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG OTRA TRGY FR TECH RU |
| 05PARIS1087 |
PSI/MTCR: SUSPICIOUS CARGO BOUND FOR SYRIA [...] (S) Based on the request in Ref (A) cable for immediate action, morning of 19 February 2005, EST officer delivered demarche and non-paper regarding a shipment of French-origin equipment to Syria to French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC) David Bertolotti, MFA D [...] |
2005-02-22 10:13:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC HK PK CM GM FR MTCR |
| 05PARIS1094 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - PRESIDENT BUSH IN EUROPE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-02-22 11:33:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS1106 |
AMBASSADOR CHALLENGES SOCIALISTS ON EU [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Leach and DCM Wolff February 21 expressed concern to the Socialist Party (PS) leadership about the negative message on U.S.-EU relations contained in the party's campaign material in support of a yes vote on the EU constitution in France's late spring referendum. In c [...] |
2005-02-22 14:09:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV FR EUN |
| 05PARIS1114 |
FRANCE RESERVED ON MEK REPATRIATION REVIEW PANEL [...] No summary [...] |
2005-02-22 15:28:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PGOV PTER ASEC IR IZ FR PREM |
| 05PARIS1139 |
CODEL SMITH MEETS CHIRAC, FRENCH OFFICIALS, [...] (C) Summary: During their January 31st stop in Paris, Senators Smith, Biden, Leahy, Chambliss, Shelby and Hatch discussed the status of the bilateral relationship, Iraq, Iran proliferation, Afghanistan, the EU´s arms embargo on China, and anti-Semitism in France in separate meetings with French [...] |
2005-02-23 11:44:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL KNNP MARR IZ AF FR |
| 05PARIS114 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - JAKARTA INTERNATIONAL RELIEF [...] JAKARTA INTERNATIONAL RELIEF SUMMIT 2. MIDDLE EAST - PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS 3. TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: LEFT-OF-CENTER LE MONDE CARRIES AN OP-ED BY SECRETARY POWELL TITLED "DEVELOPMENT AID TO POOR COUNTRIES: A MORAL OBLIGATION." THE ELECTIONS IN PALESTINE, THE J [...] |
2005-01-07 11:25:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS1142 |
ARNAUD LAGARDERE ON BOEING/AIRBUS, CHIRAC AND THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador hosted Lagardere group CEO (and EADS shareholder) Arnaud Lagardere at lunch February 18. Discussion focused on Lagardere/EADS business plans, Boeing/Airbus, President Chirac and media industry developments. Lagardere had unvarnished criticism for President Chirac. On Ai [...] |
2005-02-23 12:12:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EAIR SCUL FR WTRO USTR |
| 05PARIS1143 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - PRESIDENT BUSH IN EUROPE THE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-02-23 12:13:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS116 |
France: Telecom and Information Technology Update [...] This is another in a series of periodic updates on the French telecommunications and information technology sectors, including internet and e-commerce. Contents: -- Phone rates in France may soon be going up (para 2) -- French Telecom Regulator Board Gets New Member (para 3) -- Videophone s [...] |
2005-01-07 11:28:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ETRD FR |
| 05PARIS1168 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - BUSH-PUTIN MEETING IN [...] BUSH-PUTIN MEETING IN BRATISLAVA 2. CHINA ARMS EMBARGO (B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: WITH NEWS OF ANOTHER HOUSING SCANDAL CONCERNING FINANCE MINISTER HERVE GAYMARD RECENTLY BREAKING, HEADLINES TODAY AFFIRM THAT "GAYMARD IS IN A STORM" (RIGHT-OF-CENTER LE FIGARO) AND "THE GAYMARD CASE PUTS [...] |
2005-02-24 11:32:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS1178 |
FRENCH HAVE NOT RECEIVED RUSSIAN PROPOSAL ON [...] No summary [...] |
2005-02-24 14:35:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PBTS MD FR OSCE |
| 05PARIS1196 |
MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) -- SMALL [...] (C) On February 24, EST Counselor provided French MTCR Point-of-Contact David Bertolotti with non-paper contained reftel, noting the request for feedback; the need to limit discussion within the small group; and, the invitation to share small group proposals. Bertolotti said he would study t [...] |
2005-02-24 17:47:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | AU FR KSCA PREL PARM ETTC TSPA |
| 05PARIS1197 |
MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): [...] (C) On February 24, EST Counselor presented paper contained in reftel regarding proposed agenda topics for the 2005 MTCR Plenary Information Exchange to French MFA MTCR Point-of-Contact David Bertolotti. Bertolotti appreciated the receipt of the document and he will prepare it soonest as a PO [...] |
2005-02-24 17:47:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR KSCA PARM PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA |
| 05PARIS1209 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - PRESIDENT BUSH IN EUROPE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-02-25 11:25:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS1219 |
AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS [...] ATTENTION 2. TOGO 3. COTE D'IVOIRE 4. CENTRAFRIQUE 5. SUDAN Â [...] |
2005-02-25 14:36:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO XA |
| 05PARIS1225 |
IRAN-EU3: FEBRUARY 24 MEETING BETWEEN FRENCH [...] SUMMARY. Iranian chief nuclear negotiator Hassan Ruhani, on one stop of a tour that will include visits to each EU3 capital, met with French President Jacques Chirac February 24. Chirac's Middle East advisor, Dominique Boche, told us that Ruhani's purpose was to move the discussions from the [...] |
2005-02-25 15:19:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | KNNP PARM PREL TRGY MNUC IR UK FR IAEA GE |
| 05PARIS1229 |
TOGO/FRANCE: UPDATE ON CHARLES DEBBASCH AND MFA [...] (U) This message reports (para 2) developments in the case of Charles Debbasch (reftel) and (para 3) MFA statements on Togo since the February 14 statement reported reftel. 2. (SBU) DEBBASCH CASE: According to a February 24 AFP report, the criminal case against Debbasch (a longtime adv [...] |
2005-02-25 16:07:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINR TO FR |
| 05PARIS1230 |
FINANCE MINISTER TURNS IN RESIGNATION [...] SUMMARY. Intense and unabating media coverage of Finance Minister Herve Gaymard's extravagance in his choice of taxpayer provided housing, and his lying about his financial situation, has prompted him to turn in his resignation on February 25. Despite his efforts to focus attention on GOF ec [...] |
2005-02-25 16:37:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR PBIO |
| 05PARIS1231 |
FINANCE MINISTER VISION FOR GOF MACRO-ECONOMIC [...] SUMMARY. Just before turning in his resignation (septel), Finance Minister Herve Gaymard announced the details of GOF macro-economic policy in the run-up to presidential elections in 2007. He planned a series of fiscal incentives and reforms aimed at restoring confidence, boosting economic g [...] |
2005-02-25 16:39:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
| 05PARIS1232 |
FRANCE MORE COMFORTABLE WITH REVISED TERMS OF [...] No summary [...] |
2005-02-25 17:21:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY FR IAEA |
| 05PARIS1233 |
IRAN/IAEA: FRANCE WILL RAISE IRAN AT THE FEB 28 [...] No summary [...] |
2005-02-25 17:33:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | IR KNNP PARM PREL TRGY MNUC IAEA |
| 05PARIS1238 |
FRANCE ISSUES 50-YEAR GOVERNMENT BONDS [...] SUMMARY. France has introduced a new financial instrument on the debt markets: 50-year Government bonds. Faced with an aging population and pension reforms, France tapped the bond market to take advantage of low long-term interest rates and robust demand. The issuance, which has been a succe [...] |
2005-02-25 18:19:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR PBIO |
| 05PARIS1244 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - EUROPE - PRESIDENT BUSH'S [...] EUROPE - PRESIDENT BUSH'S TRAVEL TO EUROPE AND TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS 2. MIDDLE EAST - LEBANON B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: A VARIETY OF STORIES, WHICH INCLUDE DOMESTIC SOCIAL ISSUES AND EUROPEAN POLITICAL AFFAIRS, ARE FEATURED ON TODAY'S FRONT PAGES. INSIDE, SEVERAL ARTICLES ARE DEVOTED TO [...] |
2005-02-28 11:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS1264 |
FRANCE'S FOURTH FINANCE MINISTER IN A YEAR: [...] (C) France Telecom CEO, Thiery Breton, has been named as new Minister of Finance, Economy and Industry, replacing Herve Gaymard. Breton, an admired and politically astute technocrat and business executive, had been approached to replace Nicolas Sarkozy as Finance Minister in November 2004 bu [...] |
2005-02-28 16:47:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EFIN PREL FR |
| 05PARIS1268 |
ELYSEE ON POSSIBLE THREAT TO LEBANESE OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: Presidential Middle East Advisor Dominique Boche summoned us February 28 to pass on urgent, unverified threat information that possible sniper attacks might take place at the planned Lebanese opposition demonstration today in Beirut's Martyr's square. The targets of the possible [...] |
2005-02-28 17:49:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE SY FR |
| 05PARIS1283 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - MIDDLE EAST - LEBANON [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-01 11:27:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS1300 |
VERSAILLES CONGRESS APPROVES AMENDMENTS, EU [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Chirac is expected to set a date for the referendum on the EU Constitution before the end of this week, following approval of EU-related amendments to the French Constitution at a specially convened Congress in Versailles yesterday, February 28. Chirac's next -- and p [...] |
2005-03-01 15:22:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI PREL FR |
| 05PARIS1304 |
FRENCH INFORMED OF FINAL DETERMINATION OF [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-01 17:08:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KAWC PINR PREL FR |
| 05PARIS1306 |
SARKOZY WATCH: FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER DE CHARETTE [...] (C) Summary: In a remarkable initiative, the new head of international relations of the governing UMP party, former Foreign Minister Herve de Charette called on Ambassador Leach March 1 offering a hand of friendship and cooperation. Charette applauded the positive results of U.S. policies across th [...] |
2005-03-01 17:30:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR PINT |
| 05PARIS1307 |
FRANCE: 2005 SPECIAL 3001 REVIEW [...] (U) Per reftel, post has reviewed intellectual property rights protection in France, focusing most recently on piracy of optical media, GOF efforts to prevent unauthorized procurement and/or use of software, and compliance with TRIPS obligations. Post provided reftel points and industry comm [...] |
2005-03-01 17:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD FR |
| 05PARIS1309 |
PUBLIC AFFAIRS PERSPECTIVES IN THE WAKE OF THE [...] Summary: French opinion leaders across the political spectrum commented at length on every stop of the President's trip to Europe. As with the visit of Secretary Rice, several, sometimes conflicting, themes emerged. Even long-standing critics of recent U.S. policy heralded the visit and P [...] |
2005-03-01 17:53:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PREL OPRC OIIP FR |
| 05PARIS1310 |
Haiti Reconstruction: Paris Preparatory Meeting for [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 24, representatives of State, Treasury and USAID attended a French-hosted preparatory meeting in Paris in preparation for the ministerial conference on Haiti reconstruction to be held on March 18, 2005, in Cayenne, French Guiana. The French presented the Cayenne Co [...] |
2005-03-01 18:10:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID HA FR |
| 05PARIS133 |
TSUNAMI ASSISTANCE - FRENCH WILL ASSIGN A LIAISON [...] No summary [...] |
2005-01-07 18:19:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS MARR FR |
| 05PARIS1344 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - IRAQ - FRENCH HOSTAGE - [...] IRAQ - FRENCH HOSTAGE - VIDEOTAPE 2. MIDDLE EAST - LEBANON - SYRIA - GREATER MIDDLE EAST 3. U.S. - EU AND THE TRANSATLANTIC ALLIANCE B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: TODAY'S FRONT PAGES ARE OVERWHELMINGLY DEVOTED TO FLORENCE AUBENAS, THE FRENCH LIBERATION JOURNALIST HELD HOSTAGE IN IRAQ. YESTERD [...] |
2005-03-02 13:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS1356 |
FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON DESIGNATING HIZBALLAH AS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION [...] (S) Summary: On March 1, poloffs delivered reftel demarche on designating Hizballah as a terrorist organization to Julien Deruffe and Yves Trotignon from the MFA's office of counter-terrorism and Remy Bouallegue, Lebanon/Syria desk officer. Poloff also informed Dominique Boche, President Chir [...] |
2005-03-02 14:35:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | ETTC PTER EFIN FR EUN |
| 05PARIS137 |
2004: FRENCH MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE [...] SUMMARY: France enjoyed a moderately good year in 2004 in terms of macroeconomic performance, advances in economic policy, and economic stability. Job growth remains the economy's major weakness, but modest GDP growth did help the government to maintain fiscal restraint and the private sect [...] |
2005-01-07 18:29:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR PBIO |
| 05PARIS1382 |
FRANCE: POSITIVE ON TSA INTERMODAL DIALOGUE, TEPID [...] (C) SUMMARY: In February 24 meetings with TSA International Programs Assistant Administrator David Tiedge, French officials -listened to U.S. concerns about Emergency Amendment implementation, agreed to continue discussion, but sidestepped new commitments; -agreed to continue discussion [...] |
2005-03-03 12:34:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR PTER FR |
| 05PARIS1393 |
GOF WELCOMES POSTPONEMENT OF ASAD VISIT TO VIENNA [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-03 13:44:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | AU SY PREL ECIN LE FR |
| 05PARIS1398 |
FRANCE SUBMISSION FOR 2005 TIP REPORT [...] (U) France is a destination country for trafficked persons, mainly women trafficked for prostitution from Eastern Europe (Romania, Bulgaria, and to a lesser extent Albania) and Africa (Nigera, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon). France's national Central Office for the Repression of Trafficking in Pe [...] |
2005-03-03 16:43:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB FR RO |
| 05PARIS1400 |
IRAN/EU3: LETTER FROM U/S BOLTON DELIVERED TO [...] (SBU) Post delivered the letter from U/S Bolton in reftel to MFA Political Director Laboulaye's office on March 3, 2005. Given that Laboulaye was on leave, we also passed on a copy of the letter to Ms. Veronique Vouland, deputy in the MFA's Department for Disarmament and Nuclear Non-prolifer [...] |
2005-03-03 17:23:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM MNUC IR FR |
| 05PARIS1401 |
FRENCH HOSTAGE VIDEO RAISES SPECULATION ON A [...] (SBU) The March 1 release of a videotape showing missing French journalist Florence Aubenas pleading for assistance from a pro-Syrian French MP has plunged the GoF into its second Iraq hostage crisis in recent months and sparked widespread French press speculation of a Syria hand in Aubenas' k [...] |
2005-03-03 17:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ FR SY LE |
| 05PARIS1412 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - LEBANON AND SYRIA - ISRAEL [...] LEBANON AND SYRIA 2. ISRAEL AND PALESTINE 3. IRAQ - FORMATION OF A NEW GOVERNMENT (B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: ISSUES SURROUNDING FRENCH HOSTAGE FLORENCE AUBENAS HELD IN IRAQ AND PRIME MINISTER RAFFARIN'S DECISION TO KEEP PARLIAMENT MEMBER DIDIER JULIA FROM NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE HOSTA [...] |
2005-03-04 11:05:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS1413 |
AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS [...] ATTENTION 2. TOGO 3. COTE D'IVOIRE 4. DROC 5. RWANDA 6. BURUNDI 7. SUDAN 8. ZIMBABWE Â [...] |
2005-03-04 11:18:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO XA |
| 05PARIS1432 |
FRANCE: ANNUAL SECTION 1377 REVIEW OF TELECOM TRADE [...] On January 26, EconOff and visiting USTR telecom trade specialist Ken Schagrin met with GOF Industry Ministry (DIGITIP) officials as well as Telecom Regulatory Authority (ART) officials to discuss concerns raised in response to the reftel Federal Register Notice published on November 24, 2004. [...] |
2005-03-04 16:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ETRD FR WTO |
| 05PARIS1456 |
FRENCH BUDGET DEFICIT AT 3.7-3.8 PERCENT OF GDP IN [...] SUMMARY. The 2004 overall budget deficit for France is reported to be 3.7% of GDP. The deterioration over the expected 3.6% deficit is mainly due to a rise in social security expenditures, notably health insurance. France's public debt amounted to 65.6% of GDP in 2004, also exceeding the 60 [...] |
2005-03-07 12:32:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
| 05PARIS1466 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - IRAQ - LIBERATION OF GIULIANA [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-07 14:31:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS1477 |
FRENCH REACT POSITIVELY TO DEMARCHE ON DRC ARMS [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA AF PDAS Elisabeth Barbier on March 7 expressed general agreement with reftel demarche on the DRC arms embargo resolution, accepting that MONUC did not need to take on additional responsibilities. She also responded favorably to the proposed flight reporting provision but sa [...] |
2005-03-07 16:26:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC MARR KPKO CG FR UNSC |
| 05PARIS1478 |
CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): FRANCE'S SINGLE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-07 16:57:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | CW AS PARM PREL |
| 05PARIS1484 |
GOF SUPPORTS U.S. LINE ON FULL, IMMEDIATE SYRIAN [...] (C) Summary: MFA officials stressed agreement with U.S. views on seeking full and immediate Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon, but voiced caution on Hizballah. We note that French public statements on Syrian withdrawal hedge slightly on the question of full withdrawal before elections and the Fr [...] |
2005-03-07 18:06:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY LE FR |
| 05PARIS1486 |
UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY DRAFT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Preparing a revised draft Convention on Cultural Diversity for adoption at the October 2005 UNESCO General Conference was the key goal at this 31 January-11 February meeting, despite a welter of unresolved substantive and drafting issues. Several days into the negotiations [...] |
2005-03-07 18:11:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL ETRD FR UNESCO |
| 05PARIS1496 |
AT MEETING WITH MEMBER STATES, DG OUTLINES [...] Summary: In a February 10 meeting with representatives of member states, DG Matsuura reported that UNESCO had succeeded in assuming a lead role in coordinating efforts to set up global and regional tsunami warning systems. He outlined a process -- SIPDIS including a March 3-8 UNESCO/IOC [...] |
2005-03-08 09:57:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY TSPL SENV KSI UNESCO |
| 05PARIS15 |
FRENCH NOTIFICATION OF MARITIME INFRACTION BY U.S. [...] (U) The French Foreign Ministry has provided the Embassy with a report filed by the GOF's Maritime Affairs Administrator alleging an infraction of international maritime traffic rules by the U.S.-flagged merchant vessel "Ascencion" on August 15, 2004 off the coast of France in the English Cha [...] |
2005-01-03 13:29:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT FR IMO |
| 05PARIS1509 |
FY2005 UNESCO PAYMENT: U.S. ASSESSED [...] As per reftel, UNESCO acknowledges receipt of the amount of seven million one hundred and ten thousand dollars (USD7,110,000)with letter DCO/1- 82 dated February 1, 2005. 2. Below, Mission transmits the text of letter sent by the Deputy Assistant Director General for Administration and C [...] |
2005-03-08 13:30:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | AFIN AORC UNESCO |
| 05PARIS1510 |
FRENCH DISCUSS OSCE ISSUES WITH RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT [...] (C) Summary: Following a meeting March 7 with Alexander Grushko, Director of the Russian MFA's European Cooperation Department, A/S-equivalent for Security Affairs Philippe Carre told POL M/C he believed the Russians may understand they had gone too far in their efforts to diminish the OSCE, a [...] |
2005-03-08 13:54:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR PGOVE RU OSCE |
| 05PARIS1511 |
PARIS RESPONSE, SOLICITING DONATIONS FOR NATO [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-08 13:58:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | UP ETTC MARR MOPS PREL NATO |
| 05PARIS1515 |
MDA:FRENCH RESPONSE ON CONFERENCE FOR MDA [...] (C) Poloff presented reftel talking points to MFA IO Middle East expert Alice Guitton February 25. On March 4, during a discussion of Israeli participation in other international organizations (septel), MFA DAS-equivalent Jean-Pierre Lacroix told us that France favored Magen David Adom (MDA) [...] |
2005-03-08 14:51:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PREF IS FR ICRC |
| 05PARIS1517 |
PSI: FORMAL FRENCH RESPONSE TO U.S. DEMARCHES ON PSI CASE INVOLVING SUSPICIOUS CARGO BOUND FOR SYRIA; POSSIBILITY THAT GOODS WILL BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE ON TO SYRIA [...] (S) On 04 March 2005, EST officer met with David Bertolotti, MFA Deputy Director of Disarmament and Nuclear Nonproliferation, who provided a non-paper representing the Government of France's (GOF) formal response to the Embassy demarches presented on 19 February and 01 March. The French non [...] |
2005-03-08 15:19:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC HK PK CM GM FR MTCR |
| 05PARIS152 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - ELECTIONS IN PALESTINE [...] ELECTIONS IN PALESTINE 2. IRAQ - VIOLENCE BEFORE ELECTIONS B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: TWO MAJOR STORIES DOMINATE TODAY'S FRONT PAGES AND COMMENTARIES: THE PROJECTED VICTORY BY MAHMOUD ABBAS IN PALESTINE AND WHAT THIS MAY MEAN FOR THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS, AND THE SITUATION IN IRAQ, WEE [...] |
2005-01-10 11:48:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS1520 |
France: Telecom and Information Technology Update [...] This is another in a series of periodic updates on the French telecommunications and information technology sectors, including internet and e-commerce. Contents: New CEO named for France Telecom (para 2) France Telecom Announces 2004 Results (para 3) A Victory for ART ... (para 4) ... And [...] |
2005-03-08 15:59:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ETRD FR |
| 05PARIS1525 |
AUSTRALIA GROUP DEMARCHE TO THE FRENCH CONCERNING [...] (C) On 04 March 2005, Embassy EST officer delivered points provided reftel on U.S. proposals for the April 2005 Australia Group (AG) Plenary to French Ministry of Foreign Affairs point-of-contact for AG matters, Etienne Sur. After reading the non-paper, Sur commented that the U.S. proposals [...] |
2005-03-08 16:43:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PARM PREL FR CBE |
| 05PARIS1526 |
TSUNAMI RECONSTRUCTION: FRANCE WILL PARTICIAPE IN [...] (U) On 7 March, Econ Chief passed ref A paper and ref B agenda to Eric Chevalier, deputy to Jean-Claude Mallet, the newly named Interagency Coordinator for Tsunami Relief. Chevalier confirmed that Mallet would participate in the conference call on 9 March. Chevallier welcomed the U.S. initia [...] |
2005-03-08 17:07:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN FR |
| 05PARIS1527 |
FRANCE WILL ISSUE PRESS STATEMENT REACTING TO ICTY [...] (C) On March 8, POL M/C delivered reftel demarche encouraging press statements on the ICTY indictment of Ramush Haradinaj to Jean-Francois Terral, A/S-equivalent for Russia, the former Soviet space, and the Balkans. Terral agreed with the necessity of issuing a press statement, and shared a co [...] |
2005-03-08 17:44:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KAWC SR YI FR ICTY |
| 05PARIS1528 |
MFA SAYS FRANCE-GERMANY-RUSSIA-SPAIN MARCH 18 [...] (C) During a March 8 meeting with Jean-Francois Terral, the MFA's A/S-equivalent for Russia, the former Soviet space and the Balkans, POL M/C raised news of a March 18 meeting in Paris of the French, German, Russian and Spanish leaders. Terral said the meeting should be viewed in the context of [...] |
2005-03-08 18:00:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV FR RU |
| 05PARIS1542 |
FRANCE: EU CHINA ARMS EMBARGO, CODE OF CONDUCT AND [...] (C) Summary: Our MFA contact reported that internal EU negotiations on the modalities of a strengthened Code of Conduct were completed, while discussions on the "toolbox" were almost done. This GOF export control expert reaffirmed the belief that the EU China Arms Embargo would be lifted befo [...] |
2005-03-09 10:32:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL MARR CH FR |
| 05PARIS1559 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - GREATER MIDDLE EAST - IRAQ - [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-09 13:33:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS1569 |
TERRORISM INVESTIGATING JUDGE COMMENTS ON CORSICAN [...] (C) Summary: The French government has the upper hand in its decades-long battle against Corsican separatists, said terrorism investigating judge Gilbert Thiel, but it is still too early to speak of an end to separatist-linked violence. Regarding the other facets of his portfolio, Breton separ [...] |
2005-03-09 16:53:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER FR |
| 05PARIS1573 |
(C) MFA OFFICIAL RETHINKS PUTIN'S ABILITIES, URGES [...] (C) Summary and comment: Jean-Francois Terral, A/S-equivalent for Russia, the former Soviet space, and the Balkans, discussed a full range of related issues March 8 with POL M/C, with a particular focus on Russia and Kosovo. On Russia, Terral appeared more positive than expected on relations w [...] |
2005-03-09 17:01:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL PGOV FR YI RU |
| 05PARIS1578 |
FRENCH STEP UP ANTIPIRACY EFFORTS; INTERESTED IN [...] (U) ACTION REQUEST AND COMMENT: See para 9. 2. (U) SUMMARY. Nine months after launching an aggressive antipiracy and counterfeiting plan (reftel), the French government is stepping up its training and coordination efforts overseas against piracy of consumer and luxury goods. By mid-2005, [...] |
2005-03-09 17:37:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD FR |
| 05PARIS1580 |
FRENCH POSITION ON THE JOINT EU-CHINA STATEMENT ON [...] (S) Following a demarche delivered on 01 March on a separate matter, French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact David Bertolotti provided EST Officer comments on the French position regarding the joint European Union-China statement on nonproliferation issued o/a October [...] |
2005-03-10 07:56:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PARM FR JA CH MTCR |
| 05PARIS1588 |
JAPANESE EMBASSY ON CHIRAC VISIT TO JAPAN, EU ARMS [...] (C) Summary: On March 8, 2005, Japanese DCM confirmed to DCM that President Chirac will visit Japan officially March 26-28. Chirac, who will be accompanied by a French business delegation and Commerce Minister Loos, will attend the 2005 Aichi Expo and later meet with PM Koizumi and the Empero [...] |
2005-03-10 11:23:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR ETTC JA FR EUN |
| 05PARIS1589 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - IRAQ LEBANON-SYRIA [...] IRAQ 2. LEBANON-SYRIA B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: FRONT PAGES AND EDITORIALS, DEVOTED TO TODAY'S DAY OF SOCIAL PROTEST, SINGLE OUT SALARIES AND A DETERIORATING BUYING POWER AS THE MAJOR REASON FOR THE PROTEST, AHEAD OF CONCERNS FOR CHANGES TO THE 35-HOUR WORKWEEK. LEBANON, SYRIA'S PULLOUT [...] |
2005-03-10 11:39:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS1610 |
FRENCH RELEASE 1 OF 3 EX-GTMO DETAINEES [...] (U) According to press reports, the GOF released Mustaq Ali Patel in the evening of March 9 after questioning him for two days. Patel was one of three French citizens previously held in Guantanamo (GTMO) and transferred to French custody on March 7. The other two ex-GTMO detainees, Ridouane K [...] |
2005-03-10 17:02:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER FR |
| 05PARIS1611 |
FRANCE "CAUTIOUS" ON EU-LED BMO MISSION, RECEIVE [...] (C) Pierre Cochard, DAS-equivalent for Russia and the former Soviet states, told Poloff March 10 that France was not firmly opposed to a EU-led BMO in Georgia, but that it was being "cautious" based on the swirl of other options available and ESDP funding constraints. Cochard bemoaned the lac [...] |
2005-03-10 17:04:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS RS GG MD FR OSCE |
| 05PARIS1612 |
FRENCH RESPONSE TO ALGERIAN UNCHR RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-10 17:34:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL FR AG MO WS UN |
| 05PARIS1613 |
FRENCH POLYNESIA: NEW PRESIDENT, UNCERTAIN FUTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: Following relatively smooth by-elections on February 13, the Polynesian National Assembly elected pro-independence candidate Oscar Temaru president of French Polynesia on March 3 by a vote of 29 to 26 (with two ballots left blank). Temaru's election brings to a close more than [...] |
2005-03-10 17:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT FR FP XV |
| 05PARIS1614 |
FRENCH RESPONSE ON PROPOSED JOINT DEMARCHE ON [...] (C) Embassy Africa watcher shared reftel points February 26 on a proposed joint demarche to troop contributing countries (TCCs) with MFA IO Africa expert Clement Leclerc. 2. (C) While Leclerc's initial reaction was guardedly positive, in a subsequent meeting March 4, he told us that the am [...] |
2005-03-11 08:07:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PHUM KCRM KPKO CG FR MONUC |
| 05PARIS1617 |
FIRST FRANCO-POLISH SUMMIT, FEB. 28, ARRAS, FRANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Chirac hosted Polish President Kwasniewski and several ministers for the debut Franco-Polish summit in Arras (northern France) on Feb. 28. French media emphasized that Paris and Warsaw "sealed their reconciliation" (Le Figaro, Mar. 1) at the summit. Both the MFA desk for [...] |
2005-03-11 10:25:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV FR PL |
| 05PARIS1629 |
AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS [...] ATTENTION 2. TOGO 3. DROC 4. COTE D'IVOIRE 5. NIGER 6. CENTRAFRIQUE 7. SUDAN 8. HIV/AIDS Â [...] |
2005-03-11 13:36:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO XA |
| 05PARIS1630 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - BUSH POLICY - IRAQ - LEBANON [...] BUSH POLICY - IRAQ - LEBANON - SYRIA 2. U.S. WITHDRAWAL FROM WORLD COURT JURISDICTION OVER CAPITAL CASES B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: TWO MAJOR STORIES DOMINATE TODAY'S FRONT PAGES AND COMMENTARIES: THE CONSEQUENCES OF YESTERDAY'S DAY OF SOCIAL PROTEST AND TODAY'S COMMEMORATION OF THE FIRST A [...] |
2005-03-11 13:38:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS1649 |
GENERAL STRIKE MARCH 10 -- MORE PRESSURE ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A nationwide general strike March 10 called by public sector unions took place peacefully, and without causing major disruption. Striking public and private sector employees protested loss of purchasing power, low salaries and proposed reforms to the 35-hour work week and the [...] |
2005-03-11 18:25:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EU FR PGOV SOCI |
| 05PARIS1667 |
FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER VEDRINE ON "DECISIVE YEAR" [...] (C) Summary: Former Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine told Ambassador Leach March 11 that Europe was beginning to ask itself whether the Bush Administration's pursuit of democracy and reform in the Arab world and elsewhere might be bearing fruit. Elections in Iraq and the Palestinian territories, [...] |
2005-03-14 11:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM KWBG IS SY LE IZ IR FR EUN |
| 05PARIS167 |
PARIS CLUB -- DECEMBER 2004 TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (U) Following are summaries of country discussions during the December 14, 2004 Paris Club session. The Paris Club's President, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, chaired the session. Staff represented the Secretariat since Secretary General (SecGen) Emmanuel Moulin suffered an SIPDIS unexpected medical [...] |
2005-01-10 16:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR |
| 05PARIS1680 |
SARKOWATCH: NICOLAS SARKOZY REGAINS SEAT IN THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a special by-election on March 13, Nicolas Sarkozy regained his old seat in the National Assembly representing the affluent town of Neuilly in the suburbs west of Paris. Sarkozy won handily in the first round garnering 71 percent of the vote. It was the most comfortable ma [...] |
2005-03-14 14:29:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB FR PGOV PINR PREL SOCI |
| 05PARIS1684 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - SYRIA - MIDDLE EAST [...] SYRIA - MIDDLE EAST DEMOCRATIZATION 2. IRAN B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: SYRIA'S DECISION TO WITHDRAW FROM LEBANON AND WASHINGTON'S SUPPORT TO THE EU-3 INITIATIVE WITH IRAN ARE TWO OF TODAY'S MAJOR INTERNATIONAL STORIES, WITH COMMENTATORS WIDENING THEIR SCOPE TO ANALYZE THE REALITY OF AN "ARA [...] |
2005-03-14 14:34:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS1698 |
CHINA ARMS EMBARGO: FRENCH POSITIONS UNCHANGED [...] (C) As per reftel instructions, we raised with MFA DAS-level Director for East Asia Marc Abensour the upcoming visit to Europe of the Chinese Foreign Minister Li and reiterated the U.S. position against the lifting of the EU arms embargo, as well as our concerns on human rights, and the need f [...] |
2005-03-14 17:27:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CM FR EUN |
| 05PARIS1699 |
TWO EX-GTMO DETAINEES CHARGED WITH TERRORIST [...] (S) Summary and comment: Ridouane Khalid and Khaled Ben Mustafa, two of the three ex-Guantanamo (GTMO) detainees returned to French custody on March 7, were formally placed under investigation on "terrorist conspiracy" charges March 11 by terrorism investigating judges Jean-Louis Bruguiere and [...] |
2005-03-14 17:50:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PGOV PREL FR PTER KJUS |
| 05PARIS1708 |
APRIL 2005 AUSTRALIA GROUP PLENARY DEMARCHES: [...] (C) On 11 March 2005, Embassy EST officer delivered reftels non-papers on U.S. Government (USG) proposals in advance of the April 2005 Australia Group (AG) Plenary to French Ministry of Foreign Affairs point of contact for AG matters, Etienne Sur. After reading points in non-papers, Sur firs [...] |
2005-03-15 12:11:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PARM PREL FR CBE |
| 05PARIS1711 |
FRANCE: UPDATE ON TRANSFERRED GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-15 12:41:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KTIA KAWC PHUM PINR OPDC PREL FR |
| 05PARIS1713 |
FRENCH RESPONSE TO BELARUS DRAFT RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-15 13:17:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | BO FR UNHRC PDEM EUN |
| 05PARIS1714 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - MIDDLE EAST - LEBANON - SYRIA [...] MIDDLE EAST - LEBANON - SYRIA 2. KAREN HUGHES NOMINATION - U.S. IMAGE ABROAD 3. CHINA - TAIWAN RELATIONS B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: THE NOMINATION OF KAREN HUGHES AS UNDERSECRETARY FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY IS PROMINENTLY ANNOUNCED ON THE FRONT PAGE OF LE FIGARO, UNDER THE HEADING: "PRESIDENT B [...] |
2005-03-15 13:37:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS1715 |
FRANCE: GOF ACCEPTS PROPOSED MARCH 29 MEETINGS ON NEW [...] EconOff raised reftel with MFA Wassenaar Arrangement expert Bruno Bisson on March 11 and followed-up with him on March 14 and 15, when he confirmed that he and his GOF interagency colleagues accept the U.S. proposal to bring a small team of experts to Paris on March 29 for a presentation of ou [...] |
2005-03-15 13:37:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KSTC PARM PREL FR |
| 05PARIS1716 |
GOF CONTINUES TO ADVISE IRAN AGAINST INTERFERENCE [...] (C) We discussed reftel points on Iranian interference in Iraq with MFA Iraq desk officer Renaud Salins March 11. Salins confirmed to us that the GoF continued to regularly remind Iran of its responsibilities of non-interference in Iraq and the need for Iran to play a constructive role as Iraq [...] |
2005-03-15 14:01:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC IZ IR FR |
| 05PARIS1720 |
FRENCH RESPONSE TO CUBA RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-15 15:28:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM FR CU CHR |
| 05PARIS1721 |
FRENCH RESPONSE TO UNCHR 61 DEMARCHE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Poloff delivered reftel A demarche to Francois Vandeville, responsible for human rights in the United Nations and International Organizations bureau at the MFA. Vandeville welcomed the U.S. intention to participate "vigorously" in the sixty-first session of the Commission on Hum [...] |
2005-03-15 15:42:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL FR UNCHR |
| 05PARIS1727 |
FRENCH RESPONSE ON MARCH 16 GAERC DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-15 16:12:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL PTER HR CH LE KPAL RS GG FR SY EUN |
| 05PARIS1731 |
PSI: UPDATE FROM THE FRENCH MFA ON THE STATUS OF THE SYRIA BOUND CARGO IN PIRAEUS [...] (S) On 15 March 2005, EST officer was contacted by David Bertolotti, MFA Deputy Director of Disarmament and Nuclear Nonproliferation, who provided a readout of the 15 March demarche by the French Embassy in Athens delivered to Greek MFA Director of Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) ma [...] |
2005-03-15 17:15:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC HK PK CM GM FR MTCR |
| 05PARIS1732 |
DJAMEL BEGHAL CONVICTED, RECEIVES 10-YEAR SENTENCE [...] (U) Summary: Djamel Beghal, the ringleader of a group arrested in 2001 on suspicion of planning to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Paris, was convicted March 15 of "terrorist conspiracy," and received a maximum 10-year sentence. His five accomplices were all found guilty as well, and received senten [...] |
2005-03-15 17:43:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PGOV KJUS FR |
| 05PARIS1733 |
FRANCE "CAUTIOUS" ON EU-LED BMO MISSION [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-15 17:44:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ZJ RS GG PBTS FR EUN OSCE |
| 05PARIS174 |
MTAG 04 - 04: DEMARCHE ON FRENCH FIRM'S ASSISTANCE TO PAKISTAN'S MISSILE PROGRAM (S) [...] (S) On 30 December 2004, EST officer delivered a demarche to French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC) David Bertolotti, MFA Deputy Director of Disarmament and Nuclear Non-proliferation, concerning the 10 December shipment of telemetry equipment from the French f [...] |
2005-01-10 17:42:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL ETTC HK PK CM GM FR MTCRE |
| 05PARIS1747 |
OECD: Participants Begin Formal Review of the [...] On 22-23 February 2005, the OECD Participants to the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits and officials from Brazil met to start a formal review of the terms and conditions for officially supported export credits for civil aircraft. These terms and conditions are set out in the [...] |
2005-03-16 10:38:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETRD EAIR EAID BR OECD |
| 05PARIS175 |
2005 CENTRAL GOVERNMENT BUDGET, PART III: [...] SUMMARY. This is the last in a series of cables on the 2005 GOF central government (CG) budget. This cable analyzes the questionable assumptions upon which the budget bill was based, and analyzes the budget as finally passed. Final passage of the 2005 budget law occurred December 30 with pub [...] |
2005-01-10 18:57:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR PBIO |
| 05PARIS1754 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - IRAQ: FORMATION OF NEW [...] IRAQ: FORMATION OF NEW GOVERNMENT 2. SECRETARY RICE TO ASIA B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: FRONT-PAGES AND SEVERAL EDITORIALS ARE DEVOTED TO THE EUROPEAN UNION'S BOLKESTEIN DIRECTIVE, A MEASURE AFFECTING THE SERVICE SECTOR AND WHICH, ACCORDING TO SOME, IS BEING USED AND ABUSED BY THE PROPONENTS [...] |
2005-03-16 13:10:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS176 |
PLUTONIUM DISPOSITION: RESPONSE TO FRENCH [...] (SBU) On January 10, EST Counselor delivered Ambassador Guhin's letter and talking points contained reftel to Veronique Vouland, Deputy to Francois Richier, and Sebastien Jaunet, both in the Sub Directorate for Disarmament and Nuclear Non-Proliferation. (Messrs. Dahan and Richier were both u [...] |
2005-01-10 18:57:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR TRGY MNUC PARM ENRG |
| 05PARIS1762 |
PSI: FRANCARE REMAINS NONCOMMITTAL; SHRINKING LEGAL OPTIONS (S) [...] (S) On 16 March 2005, EST officer met with David Bertolotti, MFA Deputy Director of Disarmament and Nuclear Nonproliferation regarding cargo of currently embargoed goods held in Piraeus port consigned to a Syrian entity. Bertolotti described the 14 March meeting between French officials and [...] |
2005-03-16 16:16:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC HK PK CM GM FR MTCR |
| 05PARIS1764 |
GOF OFFERS TRAINING TO IRAQI POLICE AND JUDGES, [...] (SBU) In recent discussions with us on Iraq, working-level MFA officials have described new French training programs for Iraqis under the EU umbrella and preliminary GoF thinking on the U.S.-proposed international coordination mechanism for Iraq assistance. The new GoF assistance is part of th [...] |
2005-03-16 18:19:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL EAID IZ FR |
| 05PARIS1765 |
FRENCH OFFICIALS ON LARSEN VISIT, LEBANON NEXT [...] (S) Summary: MFA and Elysee officials are stressing the need for continued insistence on a full Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon before elections, in the wake of UN Special Envoy Larsen's meetings in Beirut and Aleppo. The GoF views a four to six-month Syrian withdrawal as too long. According [...] |
2005-03-16 18:41:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL SY LE PTER FR UNSC |
| 05PARIS1780 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - IRAQ - ITALIAN TROOP [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-17 12:55:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS1787 |
CHILD MARRIAGE IN FRANCE [...] (U) Following is post's response to request for information on child marriage. Following paras respond directly to reftel's three questions. 2. (U) Reftel Question A: Males can legally marry in France at age 18; females at 15 (Article 144, Civil Code). Girls between 15 and 18 can be mar [...] |
2005-03-17 14:13:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI KWMN FR |
| 05PARIS1797 |
FRANCE: INTERAGENCY BRIEFING TEAM ON GUANTANAMO [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-17 16:04:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KAWC PINR PREL FR |
| 05PARIS1800 |
EUROPEAN CFO VIEWS ON SARBANES-OXLEY SECTION 404 [...] (SBU) The Ambassador hosted a discussion on March 15 at the Embassy, led by the SEC's Chief Accountant, Donald Nicolaisen, with Chief Financial Officers of SEC-listed companies operating in France. The CFOs expressed particular concerns about the high costs of complying with Section 404 of th [...] |
2005-03-17 16:05:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON FR |
| 05PARIS1802 |
DAS CARPENTER'S MARCH 9 CONSULTATIONS WITH SENIOR [...] (C) Summary and comment: During March 9 discussions with visiting NEA DAS Scott Carpenter, senior French officials expressed full GoF support for U.S. objectives on reform in the Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA), but stressed their continued desire to keep our messages separate and [...] |
2005-03-17 16:47:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PHUM KMPI LE IZ SY EG KPAL FR |
| 05PARIS1805 |
FRENCH WELCOME DEMARCHE ON GBAGBO [...] (C) Embassy Africa watcher met March 15 with Nathalie Delapalme, FM Barnier's Africa advisor, to share the elements of the demarche on Ivoirian President Gbagbo (reftel) and to discuss the situation in Cote d'Ivoire generally. 2. (C) Delapalme welcomed the demarche on Gbagbo, noting that Fr [...] |
2005-03-17 16:53:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IV FR |
| 05PARIS1806 |
TOGO: BARNIER AND DE BONNECORSE ATTEND EYADEMA'S [...] (C) Nathalie Delapalme, FM Barier's Africa advisor, told us March 15 that Barnier had met briefly with Faure Gnassingbe and "other Togolese personalities" while representing France at the funeral of President Gnassingbe Eyadema (reftel). Delapalme would not be drawn out on the substance of Ba [...] |
2005-03-17 16:54:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TO FR |
| 05PARIS1807 |
VILLEPIN'S POLICE ADVISOR DISCUSSES FRENCH [...] (C) Summary: Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin's cabinet advisor on the police said March 15 that the French security establishment is going through a period of "synthesis," in which reforms proposed over the past decades are gradually finding their place within standard operating proced [...] |
2005-03-17 17:45:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER FR PGOV KJUS |
| 05PARIS1822 |
EURONEXT PARIS REFORMS ITS OFFERINGS, GOING FOR [...] SUMMARY. Euronext, the stock market operator based in Paris, has initiated major changes in its offerings, to stimulate small and mid capitalizations. It now has a single well-organized list ("Eurolist"), and has created new indices along with a new small and mid cap expert status for analy [...] |
2005-03-18 09:43:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
| 05PARIS1823 |
MOD ADVISOR UPBEAT ON BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP; SEES [...] (C) Summary: Defense Minister Alliot-Marie's Diplomatic Advisor Bertrand Besancenot provided Political Minister-Counselor with a readout of the Minister's March 9-10 visit to the United States. He described at length the positive tone in the bilateral relationship, as reflected in Alliot-Mari [...] |
2005-03-18 10:13:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM CH FR NATO EUN |
| 05PARIS1824 |
EURONEXT ATTRACTS FOREIGN INVESTORS, INCREASES [...] (U) SUMMARY: Euronext, the pan-European stock exchange operator based in Paris, improved its profitability and attracted significant foreign investment in 2004. END SUMMARY. ------------------------- Euronext Did Well in 2004 ------------------------- 2. (U) As of December 2004, Eur [...] |
2005-03-18 11:03:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
| 05PARIS1828 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - IRAQ ALASKA OIL DRILLING [...] IRAQ 2. ALASKA OIL DRILLING 3. PUTIN TO FRANCE B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: TODAY'S FRONT PAGES CARRY A VARIETY OF STORIES, WHICH INCLUDE PUTIN'S VISIT TO PARIS, WITH LEFT-OF-CENTER LIBERATION HEADLINING "PUTIN, THE COLD-SHOULDER FRIEND," AND POPULAR RIGHT-OF-CENTER LE PARISIEN'S POLL ON TH [...] |
2005-03-18 11:28:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS1830 |
AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS [...] ATTENTION 2. COTE D'IVOIRE 3. TOGO 4. DJIBOUTI 5. CENTRAFRIQUE 6. DROC 7. MOZAMBIQUE 8. AID TO AFRICA Â [...] |
2005-03-18 13:10:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO XA |
| 05PARIS1832 |
SOMALIA/IGAD: FRENCH MFA AGREES WITH U.S. POSITION [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-18 13:55:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SO FR |
| 05PARIS1833 |
RAFFARIN MOVES TO DAMPEN DISCONTENT BEFORE MAY 29 [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin agreed to open wage negotiations with public sector unions following a relatively strong turnout for the general strike on March 10 (reftel). Raffarin also called on French corporations "to share the wealth" with private sector workers following a ye [...] |
2005-03-18 14:37:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB FR PGOV PINR PREL SOCI |
| 05PARIS1834 |
IRAN HOSTS CONFERENCE MARCH 5-6 TO SHOW ITS [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director for Policy Planning Philippe Errera (please protect) provided us with a brief readout of Iran's March 5-6 conference entitled "Nuclear Technology and Sustainable Development," sponsored by the Iranian Center for Strategic Research (CSR), the Foreign Ministry, the Atomic [...] |
2005-03-18 15:11:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MNUC IR FR |
| 05PARIS1838 |
FRENCH FOLLOW-UP ON BRITISH REQUEST FOR [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-18 16:25:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | AF UK PREL SNAR FR |
| 05PARIS1839 |
FRANCE TO HOST WORKING-LEVEL COORDINATION MEETING [...] On March 17 poloff spoke with MFA Afghanistan Desk Officer Cyril Gerardon about the scheduled March 29 working-level coordination meeting, the topic of which will be "Setting up the Afghan Parliament." Gerardon provided a schedule for the meeting saying that the goal of the conference is to [...] |
2005-03-18 16:25:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AF FR |
| 05PARIS184 |
CHANGES TO FRENCH CONSTITUTION REQUIRED [...] (U) President Jacques Chirac has announced that France will hold a referendum on the EU Constitution "before summer". Before the referendum can be held, however, the French Constitution must be amended to insure that all of its provisions are consistent with those of the proposed EU Constitu [...] |
2005-01-11 09:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI PREL FR |
| 05PARIS1856 |
FRENCH OUTCRY AGAINST THE SERVICES DIRECTIVE FUELS [...] SUMMARY. (U) Recent polls showing the anti-European Constitution vote taking the lead in France are forcing the Chirac government to take an even harder line against the European Commission's proposed Services Directive. French President Jacques Chirac strongly restated France's position on t [...] |
2005-03-21 10:54:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL FR EUN |
| 05PARIS1857 |
EC MAKES NEW PITCH ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY [...] SUMMARY: DCM Koss and I attended a lunch March 19 hosted by Luxembourg ambassador to UNESCO Hubert Wurth. Wurth, who was acting for the EU presidency, also included his deputy and Xavier Troussard of the Culture and Education Division of the European Commission. Lunch discussion focused on t [...] |
2005-03-21 10:58:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL ETRD UNESCO |
| 05PARIS1859 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - WOLFOWITZ NOMINATION TO WORLD [...] WOLFOWITZ NOMINATION TO WORLD BANK - BOLTON NOMINATION TO UN 2. SECRETARY RICE IN ASIA (B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: THE INCREASING NUMBER OF "NO" VOTES ON THE EU CONSTITUTION REFERENDUM SHARES FRONT PAGES ALONG WITH DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST THE BOLKESTEIN DIRECTIVE AND THE REPORT OF T [...] |
2005-03-21 11:57:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS1861 |
PARTIAL PRIVATIZATION OF HIGHWAY COMPANY SANEF [...] SUMMARY. The state-owned toll highway company SANEF, the third-largest in France, is going public, selling 950 billion euros in new shares on March 23. The GOF will keep a majority stake in the company as it did in number-one and two highway companies ASF and SAPRR. END SUMMARY. 2. Prio [...] |
2005-03-21 12:00:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ELTN EWWT FR |
| 05PARIS1880 |
FRENCH RESPONSE ON ICJ NOMINATION [...] We delivered to the MFA's International Organizations directorate March 10 a diplomatic note in support of Judge Buergenthal's nomination, together with the judge's curriculum vitae. Poloff met March 21 with MFA IO advisor Didier Gonzalez, congratulating the GoF on the appointment to the ICJ [...] |
2005-03-21 16:39:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL CH UK NL FR UNSC UNGA RU |
| 05PARIS1882 |
VISIT TO FRANCE'S FIRST (AND ONLY) MUSLIM HIGH [...] (SBU) In an effort to widen Embassy outreach to Muslim communities throughout France, Poloff and Consul Lille recently visited the "Lycee Averroes," the first and only Muslim high school in France, co-located in the grounds of the Grand Mosque of Lille. We had a friendly, hour-long meeting wi [...] |
2005-03-21 17:26:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO KISL PHUM FR |
| 05PARIS1883 |
GOF SAYS RUSSIA-FRANCE-GERMANY-SPAIN MARCH 18 [...] (C) Summary: Laurent Bili, President Chirac's technical advisor on pol/mil and Russia issues, told POL M/C March 21 that the meeting between the Russian, French, German and Spanish leaders on March 18 focused primarily on EU-Russia relations, with the goal of concluding negotiations on the "Fo [...] |
2005-03-21 17:39:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR RS FR EUN |
| 05PARIS1893 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - UN REFORM [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-22 11:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS1916 |
U.S. EMBASSY DEMARCHE ON AUSTRALIA GROUP REGIONAL [...] (C) On 22 March 2005, Embassy EST officer delivered reftel non-paper on U.S. actions to implement Australia Group (AG) decisions on regional nonproliferation to French Ministry of Foreign Affairs point of contact for AG matters, Etienne Sur. After reading points in non-paper, Sur thanked EST [...] |
2005-03-23 10:03:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC FR CBW AUSGR |
| 05PARIS1925 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - UN REFORM [...] EU SUMMIT - EU CONSTITUTION REFERENDUM 2. VALUE OF THE DOLLAR (B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: THE FRENCH VOTE TO REJECT THE EU CONSTITUTION, THE DEBATE OVER THE BOLKESTEIN DIRECTIVE TO LIBERALIZE SERVICES AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FRANCE AND THE REST OF EUROPE IN LIGHT OF THE EUROPEAN EC [...] |
2005-03-23 11:10:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS1935 |
PREVIEW OF CHIRAC'S MARCH 25-28 JAPAN TRIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Chirac leaves March 25 for a three-day visit to Japan, at which the main topics of bilateral discussion will be ITER and the EU's China arms embargo, according to French officials. Also to be discussed are North Korea, Iraq, the EU-3's negotiations with Iran, Japan's [...] |
2005-03-23 14:22:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TRGY FR JA IZ |
| 05PARIS1936 |
CHIRAC'S AFRICA ADVISOR RELAXED ON TOGO, WORRIED [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to President Chirac's Africa advisor, the situation in Togo is not worrisome. He believes that the elections will produce a winner, probably Faure Gnassingbe, who will be accepted by the population. In the case of an opposition win, ECOWAS will ensure that the milita [...] |
2005-03-23 14:31:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TO IV CG FR |
| 05PARIS1946 |
March 21-22 Informal Discussions on the draft [...] SUMMARY. A day and a half meeting in Paris organized by the Canadian government to discuss the UNESCO draft convention on cultural diversity brought us no closer to consensus on the final document. The meeting was a rehash of positions on such important issues as the relationship of the con [...] |
2005-03-23 17:35:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL ETRD UNESCO |
| 05PARIS1959 |
FRENCH RESPONSE ON ISRAEL'S MEMBERSHIP IN GROUPS [...] (C) SUMMARY: France is resistant to Israel's participation in political consultation groups in UN bodies outside New York, believing that there is no automatic right of participation outside of natural geographic groupings, and is reluctant to establish such a precedent. (Israel's "temporary [...] |
2005-03-24 10:57:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC ELAB KIPR IS FR WIPO ILO |
| 05PARIS196 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - MIDDLE EAST - PALESTINIAN [...] MIDDLE EAST - PALESTINIAN ELECTION 2. SUDAN PEACE ACCORD 3. TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: A VARIETY OF SUBJECTS ARE FEATURED BOTH IN LEAD STORIES AND IN EDITORIALS, INCLUDING DOMESTIC POLITICAL STORIES AND REPORTS ON THE DIFFICULTIES FOR THE TSUNAMI RELIEF EFFORT TO RE [...] |
2005-01-11 12:29:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS1968 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - SYRIA-LEBANON [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-24 12:16:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS1998 |
PARTY OFFICIAL IN CHARGE OF SOCIALIST PARTY 'YES' [...] (C) At a meeting with PolOff on March 16, Francois Rebsamen, Mayor of Dijon and Socialist Party (PS) official in charge of the party's campaign to mobilize left-leaning voters to vote 'yes' in the upcoming referendum on the EU Constitution, acknowledged that the "Yes, for a strong Europe agai [...] |
2005-03-24 16:17:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB EU FR PGOV PINR SOCI |
| 05PARIS2006 |
CHIRAC WINS EU COUNCIL'S BACKING ON HOT-BUTTON [...] (C) Summary: Playing on collective nervousness over polls suggesting that French voters could reject the draft EU constitution in the May 29 referendum, President Jacques Chirac persuaded fellow EU heads of state and government March 22 to send back to the drawing board the Commission's "serv [...] |
2005-03-24 18:22:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ELAB FR EUN |
| 05PARIS2016 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - KYRGYZSTAN REVOLUTION [...] KYRGYZSTAN REVOLUTION 2. WOLFOWITZ TO WORLD BANK 3. THE UN - DARFUR B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: THE REVOLUTION IN KYRGYZSTAN IS TODAY'S MAJOR FRONT-PAGE STORY. FOR RIGHT-OF-CENTER LE FIGARO IT IS "THE NEW QUIET REVOLUTION;" FOR LEFT-OF-CENTER LIBERATION "PUTIN IS LOSING HIS PALS" AND FOR C [...] |
2005-03-25 11:19:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS203 |
GOF OFFICIALS UPBEAT ON PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS, BUT [...] (C) Summary: GoF officials are stressing to us privately their high degree of satisfaction with Palestinian elections, but express concern that the post-elections follow-up will focus too much on what is demanded of the Palestinian side without pressing Israel to make gestures to the new Pale [...] |
2005-01-11 16:50:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS FR |
| 05PARIS2032 |
AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS [...] ATTENTION 2. COTE D'IVOIRE 3. TOGO 4. NIGER 5. SUDAN 6. SIERRA LEONE Â [...] |
2005-03-25 15:25:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO XA |
| 05PARIS2034 |
EX-GTMO DETAINEES UPDATE: 6 IN PRETRIAL DETENTION [...] (C) The Paris Court of Appeal on March 25 ordered ex-GTMO detainee Ridouane Khalid imprisoned pending investigation of charges of "criminal association with a terrorist enterprise." Returned to France on March 7, Khalid had been released on March 11, though he remained under judicial watch. [...] |
2005-03-25 16:12:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL FR PTER KJUS KAWC |
| 05PARIS2038 |
FRENCH OBSERVERS TO TOPOFF 3 [...] (U) The GOF will send the following two observers to the Top Officials 3 exercise to take place April 4-8, 2005: -Mr. Alain Waquet Senior National Security Official (and Prefect) Interior Ministry Official passport number: 04ZZ3848 Tel: 33-1-5604-7654 email: alain.waquet@interieur.go [...] |
2005-03-25 16:27:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC FR |
| 05PARIS2039 |
FRANCE ON VARIOUS UN/HR/CHR ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff met March 23 with Beatrice le Fraper du Hellen, DAS-equivalent for Human Rights in the MFA's United Nations and International Organizations bureau, to discuss several UN, human rights, and CHR-related issues. End Summary. Cuba ---- 2. (C) In discussing the proposed [...] |
2005-03-25 16:48:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL FR UNCHR |
| 05PARIS2040 |
FRANCE: RACIST AND ANTI-SEMITIC ACTS UP SHARPLY IN [...] (U) Summary: The National Consultative Commission on Human Rights (NCCHR) stated that racist and anti-Semitic incidents increased from 833 in 2003 to 1,565 in 2004. The 2004 figures eclipse the 1,313 acts registered in 2002 and represent the largest number of incidents recorded in a single y [...] |
2005-03-25 17:04:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF FR |
| 05PARIS2041 |
MUBARAK IN PARIS: CHIRAC URGES KEEPING PRESSURE [...] (C) Summary: Receiving Egyptian President Mubarak in Paris 24, President Jacques Chirac stressed the necessity of maintaining pressure on Syria until it withdraws its armed forces and intelligence services fully from Lebanon, before elections this spring. Mubarak, who had met Syrian Presiden [...] |
2005-03-25 18:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV AORC KWBG EG FR |
| 05PARIS2043 |
AIDS: FRENCH/US COLLABORATION "ESSENTIAL" [...] Summary. EST Counselor met with Michel Kazatchkine, head of the National Agency for AIDS Research (ANRS) on March 24, shortly after Dr Kazatchkine's nomination as "Ambassador at large for AIDS." The meeting focused on France's involvement in global AIDS activities and ANRS's research in dev [...] |
2005-03-25 18:43:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO FR |
| 05PARIS2051 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - KYRGYZSTAN REVOLUTION - U.S. [...] KYRGYZSTAN REVOLUTION - U.S. - RUSSIAN INFLUENCE 2. AFGHANISTAN - TALIBAN REGIME B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: DOMESTIC POLITICS DOMINATE TODAY'S FRONT PAGES AND COMMENTARIES, WITH RIGHT-OF-CENTER LE FIGARO LEADING WITH THE RESULTS OF ITS LATEST IPSOS-EUROPE ONE POLL ON THE EUROPEAN CONSTITUTI [...] |
2005-03-29 10:41:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS2052 |
MUBARAK IN PARIS: CHIRAC URGES KEEPING [...] (C) Summary: Receiving Egyptian President Mubarak in Paris March 24, President Jacques Chirac stressed the necessity of maintaining firm pressure on Syria until it withdraws its armed forces and intelligence services fully from Lebanon, before elections this spring. Mubarak, who had met Syr [...] |
2005-03-29 10:57:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV AORC KWBG EG FR |
| 05PARIS206 |
UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY CONVENTION NEGOTIATIONS: [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request. UNESCO Senior Legal Officer John Donaldson called into question the October 2005 goal for adoption of a Cultural Diversity Convention, noting that UNESCO rules and past practice are consistent with a four-year timetable, not the current two-year schedule. He [...] |
2005-01-11 16:59:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL UNESCO EUN UN |
| 05PARIS2062 |
GOV OF FRANCE QUESTIONS STATUS OF CSI PERSONNEL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of France is considering asking the U.S. to change the current status of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Container Security Initiative personnel working at the port of Le Havre. CSI Le Havre personnel currently hold "administrative and technical" status. The [...] |
2005-03-29 13:10:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT AODE EWWT FR |
| 05PARIS208 |
NEGATIVE FRENCH RESPONSE TO U.S. PROPOSALS ON [...] (C) Summary and comment: Senior MFA officials, stressing that they had consulted with the Elysee, rejected the U.S-proposed inclusion of a preambular reference to UNSCR 1559 in the draft renewal resolution for UNIFIL (ref a), which they described as counterproductive to our shared goal of pres [...] |
2005-01-11 19:33:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL FR |
| 05PARIS2085 |
EU REFERENDUM: FRENCH POLLSTERS ASSESS TREND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: After two recent polls showed that a majority of those who had decided would reject the EU Constitution in a May 29 referendum, we met with pollsters to get their assessment of this trend. We wanted to determine if the change was just a passing phase related to rece [...] |
2005-03-29 17:05:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EU PGOV FR ELAB SOCI |
| 05PARIS209 |
CHIRAC LOOKS FORWARD TO 2005: THE TONE CHANGES, [...] (U) SUMMARY. During his traditional New Year's address to the diplomatic corps in Paris January 6, President Chirac stated his desire for good relations with the U.S. and extended "friendly wishes" to President Bush in advance of his inauguration (President Bush and UN Secretary General Kofi A [...] |
2005-01-12 08:33:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PTER EAIR SENV FR |
| 05PARIS2098 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - UN - KOFI ANNAN AND FOOD FOR [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-30 10:07:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS2110 |
FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON OSLO DONORS' [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA AF Assistant Secretary Joubert on March 29 said that Xavier Darcos (Minister-Delegate for Cooperation, Development, and Francophonie) would likely lead the GOF delegation to the April 11-12 Oslo Donors' Conference on Sudan (reftel), although no final decision had been made. [...] |
2005-03-30 14:25:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ECON KJUS KAWC SU FR |
| 05PARIS2135 |
PRESENTATION OF NEW SOUTH ASIA STRATEGY [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-30 15:56:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PK IN AF FR |
| 05PARIS2136 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - UN - KOFI ANNAN AND FOOD FOR [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-31 06:45:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS2145 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - SYRIA - LEBANON KYRGYZSTAN [...] SYRIA - LEBANON 2. KYRGYZSTAN AND RUSSIA'S INFLUENCE 3. UN REPORT ON THE ENVIRONMENT B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: EVERY FRONT PAGE AND NUMEROUS EDITORIALS ARE DEVOTED TO THE LAUNCHING OF FRANCE'S DIGITAL LAND TELEVISION NETWORK, WHICH WILL GIVE ACCESS TO 14 FREE CHANNELS, DOUBLE TODAY'S ACCE [...] |
2005-03-31 10:15:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS2158 |
DRC: MFA OFFICIALS COMMENT ON SRSG SWING AND [...] (C) At a March 29 meeting with Embassy Africa watcher largely devoted to Sudan/Darfur (Reftel), MFA A/S-equivalent for Africa Bruno Joubert and DAS-equivalent Jean-Christophe Belliard offered comments on Amb. Swing's tenure as SRSG (France was very supportive of his efforts) and elections in [...] |
2005-03-31 14:06:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM CG FR |
| 05PARIS216 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - MIDDLE EAST - PALESTINIAN [...] MIDDLE EAST - PALESTINIAN ELECTION 2. GUANTANAMO 3. AIRBUS-BOEING AGREEMENT B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: POPULAR RIGHT-OF-CENTER LE PARISIEN CARRIES PRESIDENT BUSH'S OP-ED ON THE INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI, IN WHICH HE CONVEYS HIS AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE'S COMPASSION FOR THE VICTIMS AND PROMISES [...] |
2005-01-12 12:55:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS2162 |
(C) GENERAL AOUN ON LEBANON DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) Summary and comment: At the Department's recommendation (reftel), DCM met with former Lebanese Armed Forces Commander General Michel Aoun at the latter's request March 29. Throughout the hour-long discussion, Aoun stressed his status as the most long-standing opponent of Syria's occupatio [...] |
2005-03-31 14:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY LE PTER FR |
| 05PARIS2173 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - UN - KOFI ANNAN AND FOOD FOR [...] No summary [...] |
2005-04-01 09:10:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS2175 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - CIA REPORT - WOLFOWITZ [...] CIA REPORT 2. WOLFOWITZ APPOINTMENT (B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: FRONT PAGES TODAY ARE DOMINATED BY DOMESTIC STORIES RANGING FROM FRANCE'S RISING UNEMPLOYMENT LEVEL TO NICOLAS SARKOZY'S TAKING ANOTHER STEP TOWARD A PRESIDENTIAL BID IN 2007. SARKOZY, DURING A TELEVISED INTERVIEW YESTERDAY [...] |
2005-04-01 10:19:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS2196 |
AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS [...] ATTENTION 2. COTE D'IVOIRE 3. RWANDA 4. NIGER 5. SENEGAL 6. ANGOLA 7. ZIMBABWE 8. SUDAN 9. SOUTH AFRICA 10. GABON 11. DROC 12. SOMALIA Â [...] |
2005-04-01 14:22:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO XA |
| 05PARIS2201 |
COTE D'IVOIRE: OUATTARA SAYS IT MAY BE TIME FOR [...] (C) Embassy Africa watcher met March 31 with RDR leader Allasane Dramane Ouattara at Ouattara's Paris office to deliver a message from the Secretary responding to Ouattara's message of congratulations on her appointment. 2. (C) Ouattara's office, located at 124 Avenue Victor Hugo, has no ex [...] |
2005-04-01 15:48:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IV FR |
| 05PARIS2205 |
'YES' VS. 'NO' -- THE FRENCH REFERENDUM DEBATE [...] (SBU) The deepening debate in France over the EU Constitution has highlighted the divisions within the center-right and center-left coalitions that dominate the country's political scene. Overall, to be in favor of the proposed Constitution is seen as supporting business-as-usual -- to favor [...] |
2005-04-04 05:16:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB EU FR PGOV PINR SOCI |
| 05PARIS2210 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - CIA REPORT - WOLFOWITZ [...] CIA REPORT 2. WOLFOWITZ APPOINTMENT (B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: FRONT PAGES TODAY ARE DOMINATED BY DOMESTIC STORIES RANGING FROM FRANCE'S RISING UNEMPLOYMENT LEVEL TO NICOLAS SARKOZY'S TAKING ANOTHER STEP TOWARD A PRESIDENTIAL BID IN 2007. SARKOZY, DURING A TELEVISED INTERVIEW YESTERDAY [...] |
2005-04-04 05:39:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS2211 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - CIA REPORT - WOLFOWITZ [...] CIA REPORT 2. WOLFOWITZ APPOINTMENT (B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: FRONT PAGES TODAY ARE DOMINATED BY DOMESTIC STORIES RANGING FROM FRANCE'S RISING UNEMPLOYMENT LEVEL TO NICOLAS SARKOZY'S TAKING ANOTHER STEP TOWARD A PRESIDENTIAL BID IN 2007. SARKOZY, DURING A TELEVISED INTERVIEW YESTERDAY [...] |
2005-04-04 05:40:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS2217 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - IRAQ - ELECTIONS DARFUR [...] IRAQ - ELECTIONS 2. DARFUR 3. SYRIA - UN AGREEMENT ON LEBANON 4. ZIMBABWE ELECTIONS B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: THE OVERWHELMING COVERAGE DEVOTED TO THE LIFE AND DEATH OF POPE JOHN PAUL II LEAVES LITTLE ROOM TO OTHER STORIES. RIGHT- OF-CENTER LE FIGARO ON SATURDAY CARRIED AN INTERVIEW WIT [...] |
2005-04-04 10:28:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS2220 |
READOUT OF CHIRAC'S MARCH 26-28 OFFICIAL TRIP TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The MFA, the Japanese Embassy here, and the French High Commissioner for Science all provided readouts to Embassy on President Chirac's March 26-28 trip to Japan. According to our interlocutors and the press, Chirac and PM Koizumi continued to express opposing views on both the EU' [...] |
2005-04-04 11:31:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TRGY FR JA CH TW |
| 05PARIS2231 |
UNESCO - EC PARTICIPATION IN CULTURAL [...] This is an action request. See para. 5. 2. As I reported Reftel, the European Union members of UNESCO continue their push to have the European Commission sit at the table during the next round of cultural diversity (CD) negotiations at UNESCO in June alongside other member states. Just th [...] |
2005-04-04 14:31:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL ETRD UNESCO |
| 05PARIS2245 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - TRIBUTE TO JOHN PAUL II UN [...] TRIBUTE TO JOHN PAUL II 2. UN REPORT: ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: TRIBUTE TO JOHN PAUL II CONTINUES TO BE TODAY'S OVERWHELMING FRONT PAGE AND EDITORIAL STORY. SEVERAL REPORTS NOTE THAT THE PRESIDENT AND MRS. BUSH WILL ATTEND FRIDAY'S FUNERAL. LE FIGARO TITLES: "THE FIRST [...] |
2005-04-05 10:21:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS2249 |
ASSESSMENT OF FOREIGN POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF A [...] Embassy Paris has no objection to NIH's proposed award of a research project entitled, "Macroeconomic Demography of Intergenerational Transfers" involving an institution in France: Environnement, Sante et Societe (ENSANS), Nantes. Foreign Principal Investigator: Lee, Ronald. 2. Embassy [...] |
2005-04-05 11:15:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO OSCI KSCA FR CI TPHY |
| 05PARIS2262 |
FRANCE STRENGTHENS PUSH FOR "CULTURAL EXCEPTION" [...] (SBU) France has ramped up its efforts to influence UNESCO-sponsored discussions on a Convention on the Protection of the Diversity of Cultural Contents and Artistic Expressions ("Cultural Diversity Convention"), which it apparently sees as a vehicle to strengthen the "cultural exception" to [...] |
2005-04-05 13:20:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL KIPR ETRD FR EUN |
| 05PARIS2263 |
AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL MEETING WITH FOREIGN [...] (C) In a thirty-minute farewell call April 5 with Foreign Minister Barnier, Ambassador Leach reviewed improvements in the U.S.-French relationship, noting that Barnier had played an important role in improving communications with Washington. He regretted that the Pope's death prevented Barnie [...] |
2005-04-05 13:55:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR |
| 05PARIS2265 |
FRANCE: LAUNCH OF DIGITAL TERRESTRIAL TELEVISION [...] Summary: Broadcasters have launched 14 free digital television channels, initially to be available to about one- third of the French population. Digital coverage is expected to increase rapidly, as is the number of free digital channels. Concerns have emerged about the commercial viability [...] |
2005-04-05 15:07:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ETRD FR |
| 05PARIS2269 |
MARINE SCIENCE RESEARCH: NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR [...] (U) On March 18, EST Science Counselor and the NSF regional representative for Europe met with officials of the French Institute for Research into Sea Resources (IFREMER - www.ifremer.fr) to review IFREMER's priorities and discuss means to promote bilateral cooperation (NOAA/IFREMER), notably [...] |
2005-04-05 15:28:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TPHY SENV KSCA FR |
| 05PARIS2270 |
FRENCH VIEWS ON NEW U.S. SOUTH ASIA STRATEGY [...] No summary [...] |
2005-04-05 15:53:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS IN AF PK FR |
| 05PARIS2287 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - CHINA ARMS EMBARGO - DEPUTY [...] CHINA ARMS EMBARGO - DEPUTY SECRETARY ZOELLICK TO BRUSSELS 2. IRAQ - ELECTION OF PRESIDENT B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: AS MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE POPE'S DEATH BEGINS TO WANE, FRONT- PAGES AND EDITORIALS ARE TODAY DEVOTED TO A VARIETY OF STORIES, RANGING FROM LIBERATION'S STORY ON THE LOUVRE'S [...] |
2005-04-06 12:07:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS2297 |
FRANCE: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END USE [...] As requested reftel, Post reached out to the two end users indicated in the applications in question. Our initial letters went unanswered for several weeks. No telephone numbers or email addresses were provided or were readily available. However, by the entity names and addresses, we quickly [...] |
2005-04-06 14:34:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC FR |
| 05PARIS2298 |
FRENCH GDP GROWTH TO SLOW IN THE FIRST HALF [...] SUMMARY. GDP growth is likely to slow in the first half of 2005, mainly due to lower consumer spending. Rising oil prices and the appreciation of the euro are curbing investment and exports. Measures recently announced by the government to boost consumption are unlikely t [...] |
2005-04-06 14:35:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
| 05PARIS2305 |
SENIOR FRENCH OFFICIALS DISCUSS LEBANON NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Summary and comment: Presidential Middle East Advisor Dominique Boche stressed strong French support for holding Lebanon's elections on time and expressed concern over Syrian/loyalist delay tactics during discussions with visiting NEA DAS Carpenter April 5. The MFA issued a tough statem [...] |
2005-04-06 16:23:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY LE FR |
| 05PARIS2316 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - CHINA ARMS EMBARGO [...] No summary [...] |
2005-04-07 10:04:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS2333 |
GWOT ASSESSMENT: EMBASSY PARIS FEEDBACK [...] (S) Summary: U.S.-French cooperation on terrorism is mature and broad-based. For a number of reasons, including the memory of terrorist attacks in Paris during the 1980s, the French bring significant expertise, focus and determination to their C/T activities, and are valued partners for a wide [...] |
2005-04-07 13:21:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PTER PREL FR |
| 05PARIS234 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - U.S. POLICY - U.S. IMAGE [...] U.S. POLICY - U.S. IMAGE 2. IRAQ 3. MIDDLE EAST - ABBAS ELECTION B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: PRESIDENT BUSH'S OP-ED, WHICH APPEARED YESTERDAY IN LE PARISIEN, BUT ALSO IN OTHER EUROPEAN PUBLICATIONS, IS THE LEAD STORY IN TODAY'S RIGHT-OF-CENTER LE FIGARO, WHICH HEADLINES "BUSH'S SEDUCTION C [...] |
2005-01-13 11:14:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS2349 |
(S) FRENCH APPLAUD YEMENI STEPS TO CURB SA/LW [...] (S) Reftel points were delivered to Small Arms/Light Weapons (SA/LW) action officer, Jean-Francois Guillaume in the MFA's Bureau of Strategic Affairs on April 4. In a follow-up conversation on April 6, Guillaume told poloff that France is glad to see that Yemen, a country notorious for its a [...] |
2005-04-07 16:49:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PARM PREL MASS ETTC FR YE |
| 05PARIS2373 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - U.S. REPRESENTATION AT JOHN [...] U.S. REPRESENTATION AT JOHN PAUL II FUNERAL 2. IRAQ - FORMATION OF NEW GOVERNMENT B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: THE SEA OF FAITHFUL FOLLOWERS FLOCKING TO ROME IS TODAY'S LEAD STORY. RIGHT-OF-CENTER LE FIGARO HEADLINES: "THE WORLD UNITED AROUND JOHN PAUL II." AN ARTICLE BY WASHINGTON CORRESPOND [...] |
2005-04-08 12:07:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS2378 |
AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS [...] ATTENTION 2. COTE D'IVOIRE 3. ANGOLA 4. DJIBOUTI 5. ZIMBABWE 6. SUDAN 7. RWANDA Â [...] |
2005-04-08 13:30:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO XA |
| 05PARIS238 |
SUBJECT: KEY THEMES AT WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE 6- [...] Summary. The World Heritage Committee ("Committee"), the 21-nation governing body of the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention, held a 6-11 December special session in Paris. The UNESCO World Heritage List's importance as a symbol of national pride and as a source of tourist revenues was [...] |
2005-01-13 13:09:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL SENV TBIO UN |
| 05PARIS2391 |
APRIL 5 KHATAMI VISIT TO FRANCE [...] (C) Summary: French officials described President Chirac's April 5 discussion with Iranian President Khatami as cordial and focused largely on Lebanon, the Israeli-Palestinian question, and, to a lesser extent, the nuclear issue, which was the main topic of the FM Barnier-FM Kharrazi discussion [...] |
2005-04-08 15:10:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR SY LE MNUC PARM FR |
| 05PARIS2394 |
APRIL 7 LARSEN MEETINGS WITH FRENCH OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: French Elysee and MFA officials reported that UN Envoy Larsen, during April 7 meetings in Paris, emphasized the absolute centrality of holding Lebanon's elections on schedule, for which he proposed creation of a 10-12 member committee composed equally of opposition and loyalists to [...] |
2005-04-08 15:18:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY LE FR UNSC |
| 05PARIS2399 |
(C) CWC/BWC: MEETING OF CLOSE ALLIES, PARIS, [...] (C) Summary: Close Allies (U.S., UK, France, Germany) met to coordinate actions for the upcoming OPCW Executive Council meeting and to review both joint and bilateral efforts on compliance, Article VII implementation, financial/personnel matters and CW destruction. Discussion on BWC primarily [...] |
2005-04-08 15:35:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL TBIO CBW |
| 05PARIS2402 |
UNESCO: EU Seems to be Gaining Ground in its Push for EC Representation at Cultural Diversity Convention [...] Summary. The Luxembourg Ambassador, representing the European Union Presidency, and European Commission (EC) officials held an April 7 briefing to support the request that the April 2005 UNESCO Executive Board issue a decision that EC may participate, but not vote, in UNESCO-based negotiati [...] |
2005-04-08 16:07:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD UNESCO EUN SCUL |
| 05PARIS2405 |
CHR 61: FRENCH ASSISTANCE ON THE CUBA RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] |
2005-04-08 16:38:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM FR UNHRC EUN |
| 05PARIS2413 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - (MIDDLE EAST - ARIEL SHARON [...] No summary [...] |
2005-04-11 10:30:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS2414 |
AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL MEETING WITH INTERIOR [...] (C) Summary: In a 30-minute farewell call April 8 with Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin, the Ambassador complimented the excellent level of U.S.-French counter-terrorism cooperation, emphasized the need for progress on biometric passports as soon as possible, encouraged Villepin to visi [...] |
2005-04-11 10:34:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR PGOV PTER |
| 05PARIS2415 |
UNESCO/International Oceanographic Commission [...] SUMMARY and Introduction: The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) convened The International Coordination Meeting for the development of a Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System for the Indian Ocean within a Global Framework, at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, 3-8 March 2005. The m [...] |
2005-04-11 10:58:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY AORC OTRA PBTS WWT UNESCO |
| 05PARIS242 |
FRANCE: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 1: LICENSE NOS. 883933, [...] (SBU) As requested in ref A, post has been in contact with French firm "M.C.E." on numerous occasions. As detailed in ref emails, company executives were uncooperative in providing details requested or arranging site visits to view the miniature integrated GPS/INS systems in question. 2. ( [...] |
2005-01-13 13:56:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC FR |
| 05PARIS2441 |
UNESCO: UNESCO: NEED FOR DEMARCHE ON EU COMPETENCY IN CULTURAL DIVERSITY NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) I understand that there has been a lot of discussion in Washington about the need to demarche UNESCO Executive Board members on the EU's draft resolution on EC participation in the cultural diversity negotiations. I cannot emphasize strongly enough that we need to demarche capitals on t [...] |
2005-04-11 16:39:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD UNESCO EUN SCUL |
| 05PARIS2444 |
NATO-AFGHANISTAN: FRANCE OPPOSED TO CAVEATS, BUT [...] (C) We conveyed on April 4 reftel points requesting that France lift its ISAF caveats to Camille Grand, Diplomatic Advisor in the MOD Cabinet, and to Xavier Chatel, NATO-ISAF desk officer at the MFA. They both observed that France is in principle opposed to caveats and pointed to French NATO [...] |
2005-04-11 17:28:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR AF FR NATO |
| 05PARIS2448 |
IMPROVING CONSULAR NOTIFICATION FOR DRUG [...] Summary. Drug trafficking violations continue to account for more than 75 percent of AmCit arrests in France despite a general decline in detentions of our citizens. While undertaking to improve our understanding of arrest, sentencing and detention procedures in France, post's consular secti [...] |
2005-04-12 09:38:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC CJAN SNAR FR |
| 05PARIS2456 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - MIDDLE EAST - ARIEL SHARON TO [...] MIDDLE EAST - ARIEL SHARON TO WASHINGTON 2. EU DEFENSE B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: THE EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION AND EU MATTERS ARE VERY MUCH IN THE NEWS. THE LATEST POLL CONDUCTED JOINTLY BY EUROPE ONE RADIO AND RIGHT-OF-CENTER LE FIGARO SHOWS THAT PROPONENTS OF THE `NO' FOR THE REFERENDUM ON T [...] |
2005-04-12 12:14:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS2468 |
GOF CONFIRMS PARTICIPATION IN G8-BMENA LITERACY [...] No summary [...] |
2005-04-12 14:32:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KPAO PREL XF KMPI AG FR |
| 05PARIS2471 |
AUSTRALIA GROUP: FRENCH GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO USG [...] (C) In response to 11 March 2005 Embassy EST officer demarche regarding U.S. Government (USG) proposals in advance of the April 2005 Australia Group (AG) Plenary, EST officer received a 11 April call from French Ministry of Foreign Affairs BWC desk officer, Gabriel Bernier. He informed EST o [...] |
2005-04-12 15:01:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA FR SY GR |
| 05PARIS2475 |
TERRORIST FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF MOVLADI UDUGOV [...] No summary [...] |
2005-04-12 15:33:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL KTFN EFIN ECON PTER ETTC RS FR |
| 05PARIS248 |
ELYSEE MIDDLE EAST ADVISOR ON UNIFIL RENEWAL, [...] (C) Summary and comment: The Elysee appears solidly behind the MFA in opposing a preambular reference to UNSCR 1559 in the UNIFIL renewal resolution, though it suggests greater flexibility than the MFA on asking DPKO to review UNIFIL's force structure (ref b). During a January 12 meeting, Pre [...] |
2005-01-13 15:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE SY PTER PINR FR UNSC |
| 05PARIS2483 |
GOF WEIGHING RESPONSE TO UNRWA EMERGENCY APPEAL, [...] (U) This message contains an action request for Washington in para 4. 2. (C) We discussed reftel talking points on the 2005 UNRWA emergency appeal with MFA action officer for UN/Middle East issues Alice Guitton April 12, urging a sizable French contribution to help alleviate Palestinian ref [...] |
2005-04-12 16:28:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF KPAL PREL FR EUN |
| 05PARIS2489 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - IRAQ - SECRETARY RUMSFELD TO [...] IRAQ - SECRETARY RUMSFELD TO BAGHDAD 2. LEBANON B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: AMBASSADOR LEACH'S DEPARTURE FROM PARIS IS ANNOUNCED IN LE FIGARO AND POPULAR LE PARISIEN. PRESIDENT BUSH'S NOMINATION OF CRAIG ROBERT STAPLETON TO REPLACE AMBASSADOR LEACH IS ALSO NOTED. DOMESTIC POLITICS AND SOC [...] |
2005-04-13 11:21:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS2512 |
FRANCE: APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS DECISION CLEARING [...] Summary: In the most recent development in the on-going legal dispute between Yahoo Inc. and French anti-racism groups, a French court exonerated former Yahoo CEO Timothy Koogle of responsibility for providing links to now-defunct internet auctions of Nazi paraphernalia. End summary. 2. A [...] |
2005-04-13 15:38:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS KJUS FR |
| 05PARIS2516 |
KEY ISSUES IN FRANCE'S EU CONSTITUTION DEBATE [...] (SBU) The direction taken by France's debate on the proposed EU Constitution has left many observers perplexed: what, if anything, do unemployment and loss of purchasing power, Turkey's possible accession to the EU, public service unions unhappy with proposed reforms to 35 hour work week, and [...] |
2005-04-13 15:47:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ELAB EU FR ECON SOCI PINR |
| 05PARIS2517 |
PARIS CLUB - APRIL 2005 TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (U) Following are summaries of country discussions during the April 5, 2005 Paris Club session. The Paris Club's President, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, chaired the session. Secretary General (SecGen) Emmanuel Moulin represented the Secretariat. Representatives of non- Paris Club members Brazil, Isr [...] |
2005-04-13 16:10:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR |
| 05PARIS2535 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - MIDDLE EAST ISSUES EUROPE AND [...] MIDDLE EAST ISSUES 2. EUROPE AND THE CHINESE ARMS EMBARGO B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: THE BATTLE FOR THE EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION AND THE REFERENDUM ARE TODAY'S MAJOR LEAD STORY AS PRESIDENT CHIRAC BEGINS HIS CAMPAIGN IN FAVOR OF THE `YES' WITH A TELEVISED DEBATE THIS EVENING ON TF ONE. THE FOR [...] |
2005-04-14 11:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS2546 |
USUNESCO: APRIL 4-6 NEGOTIATIONS ON DECLARATION ON [...] Summary. The first session of the intergovernmental meeting held April 4-6 to discuss development of a draft declaration on bioethics at UNESCO revealed that there is not consensus support for the Preliminary Draft of the Declaration submitted by the International Bioethics Committee (IBC). [...] |
2005-04-14 14:41:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO UNESCO KSCI |
| 05PARIS2552 |
French Regional Paper Slams American Presence Post [...] No summary [...] |
2005-04-14 15:35:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PINR KPAO EIND FR ADIP ODPC |
| 05PARIS2554 |
French Regional Paper Slams American Presence Post [...] (U) On April 12, the Toulouse-based, left-of-center regional daily "La Depeche du Midi" published an article on alleged U.S. economic intelligence gathering in Europe, with a short sidebar article entitled "The True Role of the American Presence Post." The front page headline, "When America [...] |
2005-04-14 16:09:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PINR KPAO EIND FR ADIP ODPC |
| 05PARIS2555 |
FRENCH AGREE ON NEED TO SUPPORT GAZA [...] (C) We discussed reftel talking points on President Bush's April 11 meeting with Israeli PM Sharon and the need for the U.S. and EU to send similar messages supporting Gaza disengagement with FM Barnier's Middle East Advisor Christophe Guilhou and MFA DAS-equivalent for the Levant Christian Jo [...] |
2005-04-14 17:35:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL KWBG IS GZ FR WB |
| 05PARIS2579 |
PARIS CLUB - MARCH 2005 TOUR D'HORIZON, PART I [...] (U) Following are summaries of country discussions during the March 9-10, 2005 Paris Club session. The Paris Club's President, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, chaired the session. Secretary General (SecGen) Emmanuel Moulin represented the Secretariat. Representatives of non- Paris Club members Brazil, [...] |
2005-04-15 11:10:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR |
| 05PARIS2582 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - MIDDLE EAST - IRAQ - RUMSFELD [...] MIDDLE EAST - IRAQ - RUMSFELD TO BAGHDAD - LEBANON 2. EU CONSTITUTION B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: TODAY'S MAJOR FRONT-PAGE STORY FOLLOWS PRESIDENT CHIRAC'S TELEVISED APPEAL LAST NIGHT IN FAVOR OF THE EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION. ALTHOUGH HIS COMMENT ABOUT IT BEING IN THE U.S. INTEREST TO STOP EURO [...] |
2005-04-15 12:27:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS2586 |
FRENCH FUNDING STILL UNDETERMINED BUT NOT LIKELY [...] On April 7 reftel points were delivered to French MFA Afghanistan Desk Officer Cyril Gerardon. In conversations on April 12 and 13, Gerardon told poloff he hoped his government would be able to contribute to the upcoming Parliamentary elections, but that he did not think that the chances were [...] |
2005-04-15 13:34:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | AF PREL EAID FR UNSC |
| 05PARIS2591 |
AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS [...] ATTENTION 2. COTE D'IVOIRE 3. EU/AFRICA 4. RWANDA 5. SUDAN 6. CHAD Â [...] |
2005-04-15 13:56:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO XA |
| 05PARIS2601 |
FRANCE SUPPORTS DRAFT SHIP BOARDING AMENDMENT TO [...] No summary [...] |
2005-04-15 17:03:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL KTIA PHSA EWWT FR |
| 05PARIS2603 |
FRENCH DENY ANY PLANS TO SELL FIGHTER AIRCRAFT TO [...] (U) Reftel FBIS reports quoted Taiwan and Hong Kong press reports that France intends to sell 210 Mirage 200-9CS fighter aircraft, along with 1,200 MICA missiles and 180 alternative engines, as part of a 12 billion euros defense trade package. The sale allegedly was agreed to last December 20 [...] |
2005-04-15 17:06:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ETTC CH FR EUN |
| 05PARIS2604 |
EU CONSTITUTION: PRESIDENT CHIRAC TAKES HIS CASE [...] (SBU) Seeking to revive flagging support in France for the proposed EU Constitution, President Chirac, in a closely followed TV event the evening of April 14, made his case that the constitution's defeat in the May 29 referendum would isolate France, undermining its influence in Europe, and th [...] |
2005-04-15 17:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI |
| 05PARIS2619 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - MIDDLE EAST - LEBANON AND [...] MIDDLE EAST - LEBANON AND ARAB SPRING 2. G7 MEETING B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: THE PAPAL CONCLAVE AND THE DOMESTIC POLITICAL DEBATE ON THE EU CONSTITUTION REFERENDUM MAKE UP THE MAJORITY OF TODAY'S COVERAGE. FRONT PAGES AND MOST EDITORIALS CONTINUE TO BE DEVOTED TO THE AFTERMATH OF PRESIDEN [...] |
2005-04-18 12:03:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS2623 |
OECD REFORM: A/S WAYNE MEETS WITH FRENCH OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) A/S Wayne briefed GOF officials on USG ideas for OECD reform. The GOF agrees with USG ideas about the OECD's mandate, but our contacts cited questions about the role of "Full Observers" and how the members of other groups, like the Bureau of the Council would be chosen. Nevertheless, [...] |
2005-04-18 13:49:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON FR OECD |
| 05PARIS2630 |
SEEKING CLARIFICATION ON SECURITY REGULATIONS AND [...] (U) This is a request for guidance. See para 4. 2. (SBU) We were recently made aware of at least one case in which the CEO of one of France's largest companies, with significant investments and business interests in the U.S., was denied permission to fly, in a private European- registere [...] |
2005-04-18 16:18:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PTER FR EUN |
| 05PARIS2631 |
ELYSEE CAUTIOUS BUT ENCOURAGED ON MIKATI [...] (C) Presidential Advisor on the Middle East Dominique Boche expressed cautious optimism on the appointment of Najib Mikati as Lebanese PM-designate, during a discussion with poloff April 18. On the one hand, Boche conceded that Mikati's background and ties to Syrian President Bashar al-Asad w [...] |
2005-04-18 16:42:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER LE SY FR |
| 05PARIS2635 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - IRAQ - THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR [...] No summary [...] |
2005-04-19 10:14:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS2656 |
GOF ANNOUNCES ADVANCES IN ATTRACTING INVESTMENT [...] SUMMARY: Prime Minister Raffarin on April 18 hosted his second annual conference on attracting foreign investment, where he outlined increased spending on research and development, presented a new advertising campaign, and announced positive 2004 results. According to the GOF, France moved up [...] |
2005-04-19 15:58:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
| 05PARIS2659 |
CHR 61: FRENCH ON GUANTANAMO RESOLUTION [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. See para 4. 2. (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to Donatienne Hissard in the Human Rights office of the MFA's United Nations and International Organizations bureau on April 19. Hissard noted that France agreed completely with our view that t [...] |
2005-04-19 16:37:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM FR UNHRC EUN |
| 05PARIS2660 |
SAUDI CROWN PRINCE VISIT FOCUSES ON LEBANON, CLOSE [...] (C) Summary and comment: GoF contacts report that Lebanon and Syria were the main topics of Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah's recent meetings with President Chirac, with both sides agreeing on the need for full Syrian withdrawal, rapid formation of a Lebanese government and holding of free and fai [...] |
2005-04-19 17:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SA SY LE ECON PARM FR |
| 05PARIS2661 |
SECOND FRENCH DEMARCHE ON SECURITY CONCERNS IN [...] (U) This message contains an action request for Washington, see para 5. 2. (C) MFA DAS-equivalent for Iraq/Iran/Arabian Gulf Affairs Antoine Sivan, during a previously scheduled meeting with poloff April 18, raised security problems involving the French embassy in Baghdad, which he said wil [...] |
2005-04-19 17:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ FR |
| 05PARIS2662 |
COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES: FRENCH PARTICIPATION [...] France will be represented at the April 28-30 meeting of the Community of Democracies by MFA IO Director Jean-Maurice Ripert, who will be accompanied by Ambassador-at-large for human rights issues Michel Doucen and MFA IO human rights expert Donatienne Hissard. The French Ambassdor in Santiago [...] |
2005-04-19 17:58:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PREL FR |
| 05PARIS2663 |
EU REFERENDUM AS PLEBICITE ON JACQUES CHIRAC AND [...] (SBU) France's referendum on a proposed Constitution for the EU could be shaping up into a nationwide vote of no confidence in Chirac and his leadership. Chirac has been President of France since 1995, and may well be aiming to run for a third term. For many voters across the electoral spec [...] |
2005-04-19 18:06:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI |
| 05PARIS2677 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - POPE BENEDICT XVI CHINA [...] POPE BENEDICT XVI 2. CHINA B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: NOT SURPRISINGLY ALL FRONT PAGES AND EDITORIALS ARE DEVOTED TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH'S CHOICE OF CARDINAL JOSEPH RATZINGER, WHO BECOMES POPE BENEDICT XVI. THE VARIETY COMES IN THE NATURE OF THE COMMENTARY. FOR LE FIGARO THE CHOICE MA [...] |
2005-04-20 11:55:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS2680 |
BILATERAL EXCHANGES BETWEEN FRENCH UNIVERSITY [...] SUMMARY: PUBLIC OPINION ABOUT THE UNITED STATES WITHIN FRANCE'S YOUNGER GENERATION IS OFTEN NEGATIVE AND TENDS TO BE MORE PRONOUNCED IN THE IMMIGRANT OR SECOND-GENERATION COMMUNITY. THE FRENCH PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM IS THE COMMON MEETING GROUND FOR THIS YOUNGER GENERATION. UNFORTUNATELY, [...] |
2005-04-20 13:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL FR |
| 05PARIS2693 |
FRENCH MFA OFFICALS CLARIFY GOF INTERPRETATION OF [...] Summary. In an April 18 meeting with post regarding notification of detained AmCits, French MFA officials clarified their interpretation of the Vienna Convention term "without delay" in Article 36 as being a period up to ten days. They remained ambiguous in their interpretation of the term " [...] |
2005-04-21 09:57:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC CJAN FR |
| 05PARIS2694 |
MEDIA REACTION REPORT - SECRETARY RICE TO MOSCOW [...] SECRETARY RICE TO MOSCOW 2. EU-AMERICAN RELATIONS: THE CASE OF ROMANIA B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: RIGHT-OF-CENTER LE POINT DEVOTES A SHORT COLUMN, TITLED "A COUSIN FROM AMERICA," TO CRAIG STAPLETON, PRESIDENT BUSH'S CHOICE FOR AMBASSADOR TO PARIS. HELENE VISSIERE WRITES: "IF HE IS CONFIRMED [...] |
2005-04-21 09:58:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 05PARIS2721 |
FRANCE ENCOURAGES A NEW FINANCIAL CULTURE [...] SUMMARY. The GOF is taking steps to cultivate a stronger financial culture in France. Even though the number of individual shareholders has dramatically increased in the last twenty years, the French currently lack enough knowledge of financial markets to invest in equities or other sophisti [...] |
2005-04-21 15:51:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN |