Vol 45 No 19 | 
            - PORTUGAL
- AFRICA
	     With French President Jacques Chirac  President Lula is promoting an international tax initiative to finance development aid...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 45 No 17 | 
            - CÔTE D'IVOIRE
	     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...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 45 No 15 | 
            - CÔTE D'IVOIRE
	    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...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 45 No 12 | 
            - CONGO-KINSHASA
	      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...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 44 No 25 | 
            - CÔTE D'IVOIRE
	     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...