{"id":92,"date":"2004-07-05T21:50:22","date_gmt":"2004-07-06T02:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=92"},"modified":"2005-07-10T05:05:02","modified_gmt":"2005-07-10T10:05:02","slug":"france-iraq-to-re-establish-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"France, Iraq to Re-Establish Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AP is reporting that <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=540&#038;ncid=736&#038;e=8&#038;u=\/ap\/20040705\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/france_iraq\" target=\"_blank\">France and Iraq will renew diplomatic ties shortly.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After a 13-year interruption, France and Iraq (news &#8211; web sites) intend to re-establish diplomatic relations within the next few days, the French Foreign Ministry confirmed Monday.<\/p>\n<p> Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi met Monday with Bernard Bajolet, France&#8217;s highest diplomatic representative in Iraq, and discussed restoration of ties that Saddam Hussein (news &#8211; web sites) broke off in 1991 during the Gulf War (news &#8211; web sites), a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr. Allawi said he wanted to do it as fast as possible so that France can participate in the reconstruction of Iraq,&#8221; the spokesman said. &#8220;We welcomed that very positively.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>France, always there for the Francs.  Nevertheless, this is a good move for the fledgling Iraqi government and its efforts to establish legitimacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AP is reporting that France and Iraq will renew diplomatic ties shortly. After a 13-year interruption, France and Iraq (news &#8211; web sites) intend to re-establish diplomatic relations within the next few days, the French Foreign Ministry confirmed Monday. Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi met Monday with Bernard Bajolet, France&#8217;s highest diplomatic representative in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-middle-east","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}