Laurent Fabius

Responsibility for foreign policy is primarily shared between the President François Hollande and the Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius...

The Director of African and Malagasy affairs at the Foreign Affairs Ministry (Quai d'Orsay) under Minister Laurent Fabius is Jean-Christophe Belliard who has been Ambassador to Ethiopia and Madagascar (AC Vol 54 No 11 Déby's enemies crowd in)...

That came after NFA leader and former Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril met French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius in Paris on Tuesday...

Angola's 71-year-old President rarely travels on official business so bringing him to Paris was a personal coup for France's hyper-active Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius...

Wang met his French counterpart Laurent Fabius to discuss the situations in Mali and the Central African Republic...

The visit of French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius to Bangui on 13 October was supposed to bring home the seriousness of the situation and push those with power to commit to three goals: improving security and humanitarian access plus elections in early 2015...

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said it ‘reconciles respect for Mali's territorial integrity and the recognition of a specific approach to addressing the problems in the northern part of the country...

Compaoré and Bassolé were offended and this February they got their revenge when Bigot was removed along with other officials that Quai d’Orsay boss Laurent Fabius judged not to be ‘wartime consiglieri’...

However Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius who has been sceptical about the operation from the start announced on a 5 April visit to Bamako that France would maintain a ‘support force’ of 1 000 soldiers in Mali on a ‘permanent basis’...

In Addis Ababa Ethiopia for the African Union summit and the fund-raising conference for the Mali mission on 27-29 January French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius steered between the two approaches speaking of impressive military progress but warning of tough political and security decisions ahead...

• France’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius Mali’s President Dioncounda Traoré Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan and Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Dramane Ouattara (who chairs the Economic Community of West African States) want the Security Council to approve a single resolution endorsing an internationally backed military force before the end of December...