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Jacques Chirac

Date of Birth: 29 November 1932
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Died: 26 September 2019


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Not franc

French Cooperation Secretary Charles Josselin remains firmly opposed to altering the current fixed rate of FF CFA 655 = one euro as does President Jacques Chirac...


End of empire

The France-Africa circuit has been stirred by police searches of premises and accounts controlled by Charles Pasqua (home and office) Jean-Christophe Mitterrand and Jacques Attali and by the arrest of Michel Roussin former counter-intelligence officer close aide to President Jacques Chirac and Minister for Cooperation against whom the charges include illegal financing of political parties (AC Vol 41 No 24)...


Presidential pranks

Interest focusses on his role as key aide to Jacques Chirac (then Mayor of Paris now President) in the 1980s...


Stuck in the sand

Compaoré's appearance in UN reports on arms-diamonds trafficking to UNITA or RUF rebels doesn't unduly perturb his supporters in President Jacques Chirac's Africa cellule...


Gbagbo's next test

Ouattara's espousal of market economics and foreign investment should have made him a natural ally of President Jacques Chirac's Gaullist party...


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Playing the offside rule

Konaré refused the 'convocation' from the recently elected President Jacques Chirac to Dakar in 1995 a snub which has not been forgiven in Paris...


Now the economic battle

Despite President Jacques Chirac's much publicised personal support for Sassou Lionel Jospin's Socialist-led government keeps its grip on aid policy and backs the EU's 'common position' on linking aid to democracy and human rights...


The Bouteflika paradox

President Jacques Chirac and Premier Lionel Jospin's government rolled out the red carpet and Bouteflika emphasised his range of contacts from the political class to Club Mediterranée founder Gilbert Trigano whom he greeted as an old friend (and host on holidays past) and invited to set up a tourism complex in Algeria...


The military-metropolitan team

The Gaullists notably President Jacques Chirac and Michel Dupuch backed by super-rich businessman Vincent Bolloré a major beneficiary of African privatisation favoured Bédié and his Parti Démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire...


Wade makes his mark

The economy was the focus: as well as meeting President Jacques Chirac Premier Lionel Jospin and over an unprecedented lunch Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine Wade sought to foster a better investment climate by meeting the Président Directeur Général of major companies - Air France Artémis Bouygues Electricité de France Lyonnaise des Eaux Société Générale Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer TotalFina and Vivendi...


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