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Alain Juppe

Former France's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Bordeaux's mayor Alain Juppe attends a meeting of the party's executives focusing on the strategy for the upcoming parliamentary election, on May 26, 2012 in Paris.

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  • France: World must act fast on Syria

    has to live up to its responsibilities in Syria and prepare for the possible failure of an increasingly fragile peace plan.Alain Juppe said on France's BFM television Friday that if special envoy Kofi Annan 's peace plan "doesn't function, we have to envisage   Read more »

  • EU to freeze assets of Syrian central bank

    top diplomat says the European Union will freeze the assets of Syria's central bank at its meeting Monday.Foreign Minister Alain Juppe made the announcement at a conference being held in Tunisia Friday to pressure the Syrian regime to end a violent crackdown   Read more »

  • Syria shelling of Homs kills 2 Western journalists

    Ochlik and American veteran war reporter Marie Colvin, who was working for Britain 's Sunday Times . France's Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe , said the attacks show the "increasingly intolerable repression" by Syrian forces.The Syrian military has redoubled   Read more »

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About Alain Juppe

Alain Marie Juppé (born 15 August 1945) is a French conservative politician; among other positions, he was Prime Minister of France from 1995 to 1997. In December 2004 Juppé was convicted of mishandling public funds; since then, his political career was suspended till he was reelected mayor of Bordeaux in October 2006. He is planned to regain his deputy seat in 2007 during the next general election.

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