French President François Hollande and Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius have assiduously backed Traoré...
Her presence will encourage an upgrading of other delegations from outside Africa: likely candidates would be British Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary William Hague and France's new Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius...
French officials told political opponents of Bozizé to go to see Déby not their new Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius...
Vol 48 No 5 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius condemned Chirac for inviting Sudan's President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir to the summit as he was 'murderer in chief' in Darfur...
Vol 45 No 23 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
The party's alternative presidential candidate former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius said he agreed with Hollande...
If the left wins less likely after Socialist Premier Lionel Jospin's humiliation in the presidential race potential premiers in a Socialist-led red-green coalition include Parti Socialiste Secretary General François Hollande former Finance Ministers Laurent Fabius and Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Martine Aubry Mayor of Lille whose draft programme mentions reviving foreign aid which may cost her votes...
Vol 41 No 13 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Socialist intellectuals such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn Laurent Fabius Catherine Tasca and Guy Penne favour Ouattara regarding him as a dignified man and a good manager...
Vol 41 No 2 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Outgoing IMF Managing Director Camdessus is sympathetic to his former deputy Ouattara and the country's plight but his possible successors such as France's former Premier Laurent Fabius or Germany's Caio Koch-Weser may be less so...
Vol 40 No 23 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
But fellow Socialist Laurent Fabius a former French Premier who now leads the Assemblée Nationale expressed 'very serious anxiety'...
Hubert Védrine is France's Mitterrandist Foreign Minister a position Algiers had hoped might go to Laurent Fabius or Michel Rocard whom it sees as more sympathetic to the anti-Islamist camp...