It reaffirms its commitment to the country’s stability and territorial integrity.
It also reiterates the need for the transition to be limited in length, to unfold peacefully in a spirit of dialogue among all political actors and civil society, and to allow for the swift return of democratically elected institutions.
It expresses its support for African Union initiatives aimed at helping Chad to achieve this goal.
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Chad - Formation of a transitional government (02 May 21)
We were deeply shocked to learn that over 40 people died and more than 100 were injured after being crushed in a crowd during a pilgrimage at Mount Meron, in northern Israel.
France extends its sincere condolences to the families and close friends of those killed in this tragedy and wishes the injured a speedy recovery. It assures the Israeli people of its wholehearted solidarity at this extremely difficult time.
Israel – Mount Meron tragedy - Statement by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign affairs Spokesperson (30 Apr. 21)
Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, spoke on the telephone on 28 April to Mr Mukhtar Tleuberdi, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan.
The Minister emphasized the political importance we attach to our relationship with Kazakhstan and to the strategic partnership concluded with the country in 2008, which we want to deepen further. The holding today of the 14th Franco-Kazakh joint commission and the forthcoming visit to Kazakhstan by Franck Riester, Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness, should further our major bilateral projects in several fields of our cooperation.
The ministers discussed the global pandemic situation and ways to combat the spread of COVID-19.
On the occasion of the submission of the report requested by the Rwandan authorities, France welcomes a further step leading gradually towards a common historical understanding and shares the desire expressed by the Rwandan authorities to build a new chapter in relations between France and Rwanda.
Rwanda – Tutsi Genocide (19 Apr. 2021)
The Treaty of Paris established the European Coal and Steel Community on 18 April 1951. Signed by our countries, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, this treaty created a common market for coal and steel.
On that day in Paris, our six countries took the simple and visionary path of cooperation to rebuild a continent that had been wounded and broken by six years of the worst armed conflict that the world had ever seen.
Who better than Robert Schuman could express the meaning behind the signing of this treaty, in his declaration in the Salon de l’Horloge: a new method to achieve an ideal of peace and prosperity. “Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity. The solidarity in production thus established will make it plain that any war between France and Germany becomes not merely unthinkable, but materially impossible.”