Dominique Marie François René Galouzeau de Villepin

France's then Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin whose bilateral diplomacy has been singularly unsuccessful in this case condemned the violence and said Paris would be working closely with the UN and the Economic Community of West African States on resolving the crisis...

Another headache is the mutual loathing between Gbagbo and French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin...

French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin and his British counterpart Jack Straw are due in Kigali and Kinshasa next month to endorse the new order there and warn Rwanda against more adventures in Congo...

British Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Jack Straw said negotiations at the Security Council had involved robust discussion and on 12 March gave parliament in Westminster this description of the French Foreign Minister: 'I'm willing to speculate that my good friend Dominique de Villepin who is currently perambulating around Africa - going to Cameroon Angola and Guinea - that in his perambulations he's not just having café and a little conversation with those he is meeting...

With a decisive presidential mandate coupled with a big parliamentary majority Chirac and his Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin see history beckoning not to mention an open field in Africa while Britain and the United States are busy in Iraq...

French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin launched this latest round of negotiations after visiting Abidjan in November and early January (AC Vol 43 No 25)...

France's hyperactive Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin has been on the road again in Africa visiting six countries in three days last week as he sought to break the deadlock over the Côte d'Ivoire crisis...

French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin visited Gadaffi's tent on 18 October following up a one-to-one meeting with him in Tripoli soon after becoming Minister last summer...

Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin has long experience in Africa and in Madagascar (where on 3 July he visited the then aspiring President Marc Ravalomanana ignoring his rival France's old friend Didier Ratsiraka) has already shown his willingness to intervene actively in domestic political tangles...

Given Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin's personal interest in African affairs Wiltzer will not be doing much policy making of his own...