Jacques Chirac

The triumph of the Parti Socialiste in Gaullist President Jacques Chirac's misjudged snap elections in May-June and the palpable failure of French strategy in Central Africa have precipitated a radical review of policy in Paris...

A warm welcome is still expected from President Jacques Chirac and politicians such as the outgoing parliamentary President Tunis-born Philippe Séguin...

President Jacques Chirac whose office has tried to run a Gaullist African policy is badly weakened by his decision to call elections a year early...

Rabat is willing to open up more to London (though King Hassan II's close relations with President Jacques Chirac dominate Rabat's policy) but harbours suspicions about Labour sympathies with the Polisario Front...

On Zaïre and on other issues Nigeria Sudan and Kenya make common cause with Mobutu's Francophone allies: Gabon's President Omar Bongo; Congo's President Pascal Lissouba Cameroon's President Paul Biya; Côte d'Ivoire's President Henri Konan-Bédié; Chad's President Idriss Déby; Niger's President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara; and the mother of Francophone allies France's President Jacques Chirac...

The affair grew more embarrassing for President Jacques Chirac when it began to seem that Elf paid secret commissions in 1992 via Switzerland for acquiring a distribution network in the former East Germany...

But his successor Jacques Chirac took no special trouble about Mandela's visit in July 1996 to Britain and France...

Historically President Jacques Chirac and former Ambassador to Abidjan Michel Dupuch have been sympathetic to Savimbi and his União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola...

None of the foreign presidents invited (including France's Jacques Chirac) turned up perhaps to avoid being photographed in General Eyadéma's embarrassing company...

His 90 minute-meeting there with French President Jacques Chirac is said to have impressed Abacha greatly...