Reply #7: Viva le France! I would love to move there.

[partylessinOhio]

French PM arrives to express support for Lebanon

Mon Jul 17, 11:17 AM ET

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has arrived in Lebanon to express France's support for the Lebanese people in the face of a massive Israeli onslaught on the country.

Villepin arrived aboard a helicopter in a school in the east Beirut suburb of Jamhour and was promptly whisked off in an embassy convoy to talks in the city centre with Prime Minister Fuad Siniora, officials said Monday.

French President Jacques Chirac dispatched Villepin to meet Siniora and "convey to him the support of France and the solidarity of the French people with the Lebanese people in their ordeal," the president's office said.

At the close of the G8 summit on Monday, Chirac said returning stability to Lebanon may require "means of coercion." ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060717/wl_mideast_afp/mideastunrestlebanon_060717151758&printer=1;_ylt=AisJUsQbS8V1N.k0NG5nsNabOrgF;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-



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