France To Recognise Ahmadinejad's Re-election - Kouchner
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16-Jul-2009 (2 comments)

PARIS (AFP)--France's foreign minister said Thursday that Paris will recognise Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election as president of Iran but also build ties with the opposition movement ranged against him.

Addressing lawmakers during a parliamentary question session, Bernard Kouchner said that as Ahmadinejad had been proclaimed president in Tehran it would be " useless and counterproductive" for France alone to reject this.

But he also called for France to continue to support an opposition movement " with a future among the Iranian people," to "multiply our contacts with it, and continue to oppose what's going on in terms of nuclear energy."

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fozolie

French Turncoats

by fozolie on Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:59 AM PDT

A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not. Samuel Johnson 1790


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Ostaad

I can't think of ANY country that has publicly and...

by Ostaad on Thu Jul 16, 2009 01:02 PM PDT

formally rejected Iran's "election" results. Do you?


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