Alain Juppé

Chirac passed the plea on to his prime minister Alain Juppé who refused to authorise the action...

This echoes the 1990s drive by the conservative prime minister Alain Juppé and his Socialist successor Lionel Jospin who tried to reform France's Africa policy...

Beyond these key government figures Macron can turn for advice to a range of experienced confidants: he was introduced to Africa issues by Jean-Marc Simon a Gaullist associated with the Alain Juppé era reforms and later ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire; former AFD chief Jean-Michel Severino and one-time Africa boss at the World Bank Olivier Lafourcade and Serge Michailoff also ex-AFD and World Bank are all reported to provide briefing notes...

This reshaped agenda differs from the focus on governance democratisation and aid conditionality that characterised the reform drive of the premierships of Alain Juppé in 1995-97 and Lionel Jospin 1997-2002...

Alain Juppé the French Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time of the genocide in 1994 called it a 'falsification of history'...

He may be even more hostile than current Foreign Minister Alain Juppé who was sent on mission in south-east Asia for the duration of Kagame’s state visit to Paris last September...

Yet the old friendship with France has been fading faster since February when President Nicolas Sarkozy appointed Alain Juppé as Foreign Affairs Minister...

He has not disowned the modernising agenda established under Alain Juppé and Lionel Jospin which continued fitfully under President Jacques Chirac...

Despite the continued denials of former President Jacques Chirac and earlier François Mitterrand of involvement in Angolagate Pasqua insists they were both fully informed about the illegal arms deals and commissions earned by the French middlemen as were their Prime Ministers Alain Juppé and Edouard Balladur and finance and defence ministers...

He is a former Assistant Director General of the United Nations Development Programme and has good contacts everywhere including in Ouagadougou's Institut Afrique Moderne think tank which he founded with two French former premiers Alain Juppé and Michel Rocard...