Vol 65 No 20 | 
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	     Bourgi began to honour that pledge in 2011 when he made public the funding Chirac and Dominique de Villepin  Chirac's prime minister  he claimed had received from Bongo  which they denied...
	 
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            Vol 59 No 7 | 
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	     Farnaud is a career diplomat and Middle East expert and an erstwhile protégé of Dominique de Villepin  Prime Minister of France from 2005 to 2007...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 50 No 22 | 
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	     The Clearstream case - ex-Premier Dominique de Villepin is accused of conspiring to implicate Sarkozy in a multibillion-euro corruption and money-laundering scandal - closed on 16 October: illegal funds from Africa were funnelled through Clearstream  the secretive Luxembourg-based clearing house...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 48 No 20 | 
            - RWANDA
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	     The late President François Mitterrand and his successor Jacques Chirac's Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin (who was in 1994 a very senior official in the Quai d'Orsay) used to claim  as did the Hutu killers  that there were two genocides: one committed by the Habyarimana regime in Rwanda and one committed later by the Kagame regime in Congo-Kinshasa...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 48 No 1 | 
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	      A Belgian attempt to defuse the resulting tension met a polite refusal from Paris; Kagame  himself one of the accused  personally blames Dominique de Villepin  now French Premier  for backing the genocide and its perpetrators...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 47 No 24 | 
            - RWANDA
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	     Yet the Judge is a political figure who intends to stand for parliament in 2007 as a candidate for President Jacques Chirac's Union pour la Majorité Présidentielle (UMP)  and is close to Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy - and to Sarkozy's rival for the UMP presidential nomination  Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     France takes Myboto seriously; since he formed the Union Gabonaise de la Démocratie et du Développement (UGDD) in May  he has been interviewed on radio and television  and twice received by Dominique de Villepin  formerly foreign minister  now Prime Minister of France...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 46 No 12 | 
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	     The new Prime Minister (another ex-Foreign Minister) Dominique de Villepin sees little need for reform  nor does President Jacques Chirac...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The then Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin warned in Brazzaville in July 2003 that progress on transparency was necessary...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	      On 22 March  Patrick de Saint-Exupéry  a journalist on another Paris daily  Le Figaro  published a counterblast (1) written as a letter to Dominique de Villepin  who was France's Minister of Foreign Affairs until this week and who was in 1994 a senior official under the Quai d'Orsay's 'Directeur des affaires'  Paul Dijoud...