Statements


List of official statements made by the French authorities on political issues

All official statements

06.10.2008 - Daily press briefing by Ministry Deputy Spokesperson

Nobel Prize for Medicine/Françoise Barre-Sinoussi/Luc Montagnier/Harald Zur Hausen - Georgia/EU observer mission - Sri Lanka/attack - Minister’s visit to the Middle East (3-5 October) - France/Sudan

03.10.2008 - President Sarkozy writes to European Commission President about international financial situation

02.10.2008 - Daily press briefing by Ministry Deputy Spokesperson

Minister’s visit to the Palestinian Territories and Israel (3-5 October) - EU/Latin America: Forum on the challenges of globalization - France/Lebanon

02.10.2008 - Bernard Kouchner on Union for the Mediterranean

02.10.2008 - Interview given by Mme Christine Lagarde, Minister for the Economy, Industry and Employment, to the BBC

Europe/Banking crisis

01.10.2008 - Jean-Pierre Jouyet’s interview with "France Inter"

EU/financial crisis - G4 meeting

01.10.2008 - Daily press briefing by Ministry Spokesperson

30.09.2008 - Presidency communiqué on Dexia group

30.09.2008 - President Sarkozy meets heads of French banks and insurance companies

30.09.2008 - Franco-Indian joint communiqué

29.09.2008 - Daily press briefing by Ministry Spokesperson

PSI - Diplomatic archives - Tripoli attack - Syria/Lebanon - IAEA

27.09.2008 - Iran - Ministry welcomes adoption of UNSCR 1835

26.09.2008 - Daily press briefing by Ministry Spokesperson

UN General Assembly/Minister’s programme/Middle East,US,China - Iran/nuclear issue - Statement of the EU Council Presidency/Burma - Declaration by the EU Council Presidency/religious minorities in Iran - European agenda: EU/India/Meeting of development ministers - France/Japan - US/France - Middle East - Financial crisis

25.09.2008 - Daily press briefing by Ministry Deputy Spokesperson

UNSC meeting on situation in Chad, CAR and the subregion - Minister’s meetings in New York: Egypt, Arab League, PA and NATO - Nuclear Test Ban Treaty - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance - EU Council presidency statement on passage of an election law in Iraq - North Korea/nuclear programme - India/Pakistan - Middle East - Iran/nuclear issue - Ethiopia/kidnapping of foreigners

25.09.2008 - President Sarkozy’s Toulon speech on 25 September on the international financial situation (excerpts)

24.09.2008 - Daily press briefing by Ministry Deputy Spokesperson

Iran/nuclear issue - Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) - Georgia - Lebanon - EU/Palestinian Authority

24.09.2008 - EDF takeover bid for British Energy - French Prime Minister’s communiqué

23.09.2008 - Daily press briefing by Ministry Deputy Spokesperson

UN General Assembly - Burma - Lebanon/Syria - Iran/EU - Georgia - France/Russia - Kosovo - EU presidency

23.09.2008 - President Sarkozy’s speech at Appeal of Conscience Foundation dinner

23.09.2008 - Sixty-third session of the United Nations General Assembly – Speech by M. Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the Republic