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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Just_Observing who wrote (1102)	3/22/2003 12:13:02 AM
From: Just_Observing	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21614

France, Germany reject call to expel Iraqi diplomats PARIS, March 21: France said on Friday that it will not accede to an American request to expel Iraqi diplomats. "France has been asked by the American authorities to expel Iraqi diplomats and shut the embassy," said foreign ministry spokesman Francois Rivasseau. "France believes this request is a matter of sovereignty. At the moment there is no reason to respond positively," he said. RUSSIA: Russia will refuse any US demands to expel Iraqi diplomats, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said on Friday. "If we were to receive such a request, it would have no legal force and we would react accordingly," Ivanov told reporters in the State Duma, the lower house of parliament. GERMANY: Germany has "no current plans" to comply with a new US request to expel Iraqi diplomats, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Friday. "We have been informed of the US request, but there are no current plans to take any action," the spokesman said. The German government has ordered regional authorities not to expel any illegal immigrants from Iraq while war is being waged, an interior ministry spokesman said Friday.-AFP dawn.com

To: Just_Observing who wrote (1102)	4/5/2003 6:25:10 PM
From: Machaon	Respond to of 21614

===> "Russia and France on Friday challenged the legal basis of the US-led invasion of Iraq, with Moscow saying it would appeal to the United Nations to rule on the legality of the attack." <=== Corrupt and bankrupt Russia, and cowardly and backstabbing France are going to appeal to the incompetent and impotent United Nations?! <g> ROTFLMAO!!!