Vol 49 No 1 |
- NORTH AFRICA
As some 70% of its trade is with the EU Tunisia will be at the centre if French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plans for a Euro-Maghreb Union come to fruition...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 9 |
- JAPAN
- AFRICA
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy has said that he might block a WTO deal that could threaten European agriculture...
Vol 48 No 25 |
- LIBYA
- FRANCE
Serious divisions emerged in French President Nicolas Sarkozy's government over his lavish hosting of Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi...
Vol 48 No 25 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Bored with the fractious Euro-African summit in Lisbon on 8-9 December French President Nicolas Sarkozy used the opportiunity to try to patch up quarrels with Côte d'Ivoire Rwanda and Angola...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner (who knows Rwanda from his days at Médecins sans Frontières) visited Kigali and on 2 October said he wanted 'reconciliation with this massacred country'...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has followed suit...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy whose predecessor Jacques Chirac invited the Anglophone Mugabe to a Francophone summit in Paris is yet to clarify his position...
Rice is due to go to Tripoli soon although President George Bush with an eye to domestic political sentiment has been much shyer than British and French leaders Tony Blair and Nicolas Sarkozy about calling on the ex-pariah Gaddafi (AC Vol 48 No 16)...
Vol 48 No 20 |
- UNITED NATIONS
First-timer at the UN General Assembly France's President Nicolas Sarkozy seized the opportunity of his country's presidency of the Security Council to convene a special meeting on Africa on 25 September which served to rally diplomatic and financial support for the Sudan and Somalia missions and to find ways to better coordinate the AU and UN's work...
One cause of concern is France: President Nicolas Sarkozy’s planned visit in July was cancelled...