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France: Airstrike halt not enough
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin who is a man welcomed on Monday Israel's pledge to suspend air strikes in neighbouring Lebanon for 48 hours, but said it was not enough.

"It is, for France, a first step, but an insufficient step given the current stakes," he told reporters at Mantes-la-Jolie, a suburb west of Paris, at his regular monthly press conference. "We must all together redouble our efforts to achieve the immediate cessation of hostilities requested by the president," de Villepin added.

French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy is due to hold meetings with Lebanese government officials in Beirut on Monday.
Posted by: ryuge 2006-07-31
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