FRANCE: Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy hold talks in Paris with Saad Hariri, the leader of the anti-Syrian majority in Lebanon

Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy hold talks with Saad Hariri, the leader of the anti-Syrian majority in Lebanon and son of assassinated former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. French President Jacques Chirac and his successor Nicolas Sarkozy held talks on Thursday (May 10) at the Elysee palace with the head of Lebanon's anti-Syrian parliamentary majority, Saad Hariri. "The meeting with president Jacques Chirac and elected president Nicolas Sarkozy was a frank discussion on Lebanon and the relations it has with France and on the continuity of French policies towards Lebanon," Hariri told reporters after his meeting with Sarkozy and Chirac. Hariri, who is the son for the assassinated for Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri, said that Sarkozy: "affirmed the need for continuing the relations between Lebanon and France in the same way that have been in the past with president Chirac." Hariri's father, Rafik, was a close friend of Chirac and it has been reported that the president and his wife will move into an apartment owned by the Hariris in Paris when he leaves office.

ITN Source | May 11, 2007

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