Jacques Chirac

French interests were however represented by Gabonese President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba a close friend of French President Jacques Chirac...

French President Jacques Chirac intervened directly we hear: the main aim is to stabilise Chadian President Idriss Déby...

Not all roads lead through Paris Overruling Finance Minister Roger Rigobert Andély Sassou and his inner circle had assumed that the route to an IMF deal led through Paris where long-time ally President Jacques Chirac had pledged to use French influence with the Bretton Woods institutions...

President Denis Sassou-Nguesso emerging from breakfast with French President Jacques Chirac on 16 July promised to tackle the problem but the mission's findings can hardly have come as much of a surprise...

The Marcoussis peace accord appears deadlocked but French President Jacques Chirac has one more ace up his sleeve: the Gabonese leader El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba...

French President Jacques Chirac is an old friend of Diouf now in Paris heading the Francophonie alliance of French-speaking states...

Kabila has also called for European intervention like that led by France in Bunia in mid-2003 requesting military support from French President Jacques Chirac the European Union's foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel who flew to Kinshasa on 6 June...

French President Jacques Chirac may not love Boutef but can do business with him...

Gbagbo doesn't want to appear too chummy with President Jacques Chirac: anti-French feeling is higher than ever among Gbagbo's backers such as the jeunes patriotes led by Charles Blé Goudé and Eugène Djué...

Bongo rejected the request but had asked French President Jacques Chirac to rein in the Joly enquiry...