François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand

The socialist government under Premier Lionel Jospin (unlike the era of President François Mitterrand whose son Jean-Christophe had worked as a journalist in Lomé) has no wish to cultivate Eyadéma...

A mission from the International Assembly of French- speaking Parliamentarians including Guy Penne who used to advise the late President François Mitterrand on African affairs visited Bujumbura in January and denounced the embargo with harsh words for the peace-making efforts of ex-President Julius Nyerere...

Seven years ago the late French President François Mitterrand told Francophone African leaders at the summit meeting at La Baule that the way forward lay through their own efforts to involve the people in democratic forms of government...

Seven years ago the late French President François Mitterrand told Francophone African leaders at the summit meeting at La Baule that the way forward lay through their own efforts to involve the people in democratic forms of government...

Seven years ago the late French President François Mitterrand told Francophone African leaders at the summit meeting at La Baule that the way forward lay through their own efforts to involve the people in democratic forms of government...

Seven years ago the late French President François Mitterrand told Francophone African leaders at the summit meeting at La Baule that the way forward lay through their own efforts to involve the people in democratic forms of government...

Seven years ago the late French President François Mitterrand told Francophone African leaders at the summit meeting at La Baule that the way forward lay through their own efforts to involve the people in democratic forms of government...

Seven years ago the late French President François Mitterrand told Francophone African leaders at the summit meeting at La Baule that the way forward lay through their own efforts to involve the people in democratic forms of government...

But Hubert Védrine the French Foreign Minister was diplomatic advisor to the late François Mitterrand for 14 years and has maintained Paris' long standing distrust of Cameroon's Anglophones...

He was François Mitterrand's foreign policy advisor then the late President's Secretary General and handled the 1994 Opération Turquoise disaster in Rwanda...

Much attention will focus on France whose new Prime Minister Lionel Jospin had close relations with the FLN as head of the Parti Socialiste after François Mitterrand was elected President in 1981...

Yet whereas the last PS President François Mitterrand tried to maintain his own Jacques Foccart-style network there is even talk now that a major vehicle of Gaullist-style influence the Cooperation Ministry may be restructured...

The late President François Mitterrand was the first foreign head of state to visit newly-elected President Nelson Mandela...

From aid to tradeOn the conference theme Chirac subtly reinterpreted the line set by his Socialist Party predecessor François Mitterrand at the La Baule summit in 1990...