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Irak, zdemoralizowani amerykańscy żołnierze, dzielna partyzantka walcząca z rurociągami o wolnośc od jankeskiego ucisku... itd itp. Media faszerują nas tym od pewnego czasu... a tymczasem na Wybrzeżu Kości Słoniowej Francja bez rozgłosu przywraca pokój rozrywanej od lat wojną domową republice... Kiedy w styczniu pani minister obrony Francji odwiedziła stacjonujących tam żołnierzy, ich dowódca przywitał ją w imieniu "szczęśliwych i zadowolonych żołnierzy" ( w odróżnieniu od sfrustrowanych amerykanów w Iraku oczywiście). Jasna sprawa, że kiedy 3 dni temu pan minister spraw zagr. słynny D. de Villepin odwiedził ten kraj, powitała go tam uszczęśliwiona francuską pomocą marionetkowa junta... Poczytajcie sobie koledzy i koleżanki jak sie robi pokój i porządek jak się ma te ponad 200 lat tradycji przestrzegania praw człowieka. Jankesi powinni się uczyć.

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French soldiers face robbery claim

French troops were deployed to protect the bank
Four French soldiers are accused of robbing a bank in Ivory Coast they were supposed to be guarding, sources say.
The men have been placed under judicial investigation, one step short of formal charges, say judicial and military officials in Paris.
They are accused of taking 58,000 euros from the bank in the northern rebel-held town of Bouake.
The officials in Paris said the men were detained after allegedly trying to buy diamonds and gold.
The soldiers are accused of "aggravated theft" in November and December, sources say.
The soldiers are all said to come from the 126th Infantry Regiment, which was guarding the branch of the Central Bank of West African States. They are not being held in custody.
The branch had already been the scene of an attempted robbery and violent clashes between pro-government and rebel forces.
At least 23 people had died before the French moved in last September.
Four-thousand French troops are in Ivory Coast trying to ensure a fragile ceasefire holds.

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01 Feb 2004 21:09:12 GMT
French minister makes brief visit to Ivory Coast

ABIDJAN, Feb 1 (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin made a brief visit to Ivory Coast on Sunday, in a sign of warming relations between Paris and its former colony after a civil war that fuelled anti-French sentiment.
Villepin and Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo exchanged smiles and handshakes at length before the cameras, a far cry from the tension that marked the French minister's last trip to the West African country in January 2003.
During that visit, Villepin had to be rescued by Gbagbo from a hostile crowd blocking his exit from the president's home.
Gbagbo then refused to take Villepin's phone calls for months while anti-French riots rocked the main city of Abidjan.
"I am here a year later. What do I see? This country is going forward...this country is making peace with itself, this country has a future," Villepin told a news conference.
"France and Ivory Coast are marching hand in hand to make the last, remaining steps," he said. He was due to leave for Chile later on Sunday.
Relations between France and what was once its most stable West African former colony have been strained since the civil war, which erupted from a failed coup attempt against Gbagbo in 2002.
France brokered a peace deal in January last year and sent 4,000 troops to police a ceasefire but Gbagbo's camp accused Paris of siding with the rebels who started the war, officially declared over last July.
With a fragile peace in the country -- still split between a rebel-held north and government-controlled south -- French-Ivorian ties have improved in recent weeks.
Gbagbo is due to meet French President Jacques Chirac in Paris on Thursday -- a trip initially planned late last year but cancelled after the murder of a French journalist in Abidjan.