BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) - A Mediterranean water conference ended in "failure" Tuesday due to a disagreement between Arab nations and Israel over a reference to the Palestinian territories, the French secretary of state for European affairs said.
"Unfortunately we can not reach an agreement," Pierre Lellouche said at the end of the 4th Euro-Mediterranean Ministerial Conference on Water in Bar [...]
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AFP) - French Industry Minister Christian Estrosi laid the foundation stone on Thursday of a Franco-Palestinian industrial park in the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
The project, Estrosi said, underlines France's commitment "to the economic development of Palestine."
National economy minister Hassan Abu Lidbeh represented the Palestinian side at the ceremony for the p [...]
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RIYADH (AFP) - The chorus of Pays-Basques singers which greeted Saudi King Abdullah at a Riyadh fair would have been unremarkable elsewhere, but was a whiff of change for the conservative Muslim kingdom.
In Saudi Arabia, where Islamic clerics severely repress public music, film and other modern arts, it represented the wedge of domestic reformers and a key thrust of French diplomacy.
Abd [...]
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TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran renewed its demand on Tuesday for France to release an Iranian businessman who is accused by the United States of having purchased sensitive electronic components and exported them to Tehran.
"The innocence of (Majid) Kakavand is evident and we urge France not to be trapped in American propaganda and release him," foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told report [...]
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