‘Nuclear power’ Pak will be threatened if France vacates Afghanistan: Sarkozy

July 26th, 2009 PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy was taken to hospital Sunday after falling ill while exercising, French media reports said. France Info radio said the incident occurred before noon at his residence in Versailles.

July 24th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - France has said that it would not be setting up any nuclear plant in Pakistan. French Secretary of State for Foreign Trade Anne Marie Idrac told a press conference here that her government would only help Islamabad ensure the safety and security of existing nuclear establishments.

July 18th, 2009 LONDON - French film legend and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot has urged first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy to support a ban on bullfighting. The 1960s blonde bombshell has asked the former supermodel, in a letter, to sway President Nicolas Sarkozy on the issue, reports Sky News.

July 14th, 2009 PARIS/NEW DELHI - The G8 declaration on inhibiting the transfer of enrichment and reprocessing technologies (ENR) to those countries who have not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) would have no effect on India, Indian officials said here ahead of the meeting between Prime Minsiter Manmohan Singh and French President Nicolas Sarkozy Tuesday. "We are receiving no help from anybody," official sources said.

July 14th, 2009 PARIS - India and France on Tuesday reiterated their commitment to strengthen cooperation on countering the menace of terrorism. A statement released after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's working lunch with French President Nicholas Sarkozy said that there was a "strong convergence of interest on the threats posed by terrorism and measures to counter it." Both leaders also expressed their satisfaction over the implementation and cooperation between the two countries in the fields of civil nuclear energy,space and defence.

July 11th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - It is highly unlikely that Pakistan and France would ink a bilateral civil nuclear deal by the end of the year as was being claimed by diplomatic circles here. According to sources, the 'unnecessary excitement' showed by Pakistani ruling circles regarding the deal may delay country's objective of entering a nuclear deal with France much like the Indo-US nuclear pact.

July 10th, 2009 L'AQUILA - French President Nicolas Sarkozy is pushing for an expansion of the Group of Eight (G8). "The G8 are no longer representative enough to manage the economic crisis," Sarkozy said Thursday in L'Aquila, Italy, after the close of the second day of the summit of the world's seven leading industrialised democracies plus Russia.

July 9th, 2009 PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said that it cannot allow nuclear power Pakistan to fall into the hands of the Taliban and other extremist organizations, which have been challenging the writ of the government. In an interview with France 5 television, Sarkozy warned that international community can not afford to let the Taliban and other extremist groups succeed in their nefarious aims of toppling the Pakistan government to lay their hands on the nuclear armaments.

June 6th, 2009 PARIS - US President Barack Obama and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy Saturday warned Iran not to pursue the development of nuclear weapons. "Iran's possession of nuclear weapons would be profoundly dangerous...

June 5th, 2009 PARIS - US President Barack Obama arrived in Paris late Friday for a visit of at least one day to take part in ceremonies commemorating the 65th anniversary of D-Day. Obama flew to Orly Airport directly from Germany, where he had toured the historic city of Dresden and met Chancellor Angela Merkel, before proceeding to the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald.

June 4th, 2009 PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned Iran Wednesday that it faces increasing isolation from the international community if it refuses to negotiate over its nuclear programme. Sarkozy, who met with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in Paris, said Iran must respect UN resolutions and only negotiations would pave the way for cooperation.

May 26th, 2009 ABU DHABI - French President Nicolas Sarkozy could visit Pakistan later this year to ink a nuclear cooperation deal between the two countries. According to sources, France and Pakistan are negotiating a nuclear partnership and talks in this regard, are at an advanced stage.

May 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pakistan recently claimed that France has offered it a civilian nuclear technology deal similar to the US-India deal formalized last year, but it seems that Islamabad is counting its chickens before they've hatched, as there has not been any 'official' confirmation from Nicolas Sarkozy's office. French Officials said President Nicolas Sarkozy had confirmed his willingness to 'cooperate with Pakistan in the area of nuclear safety', but they declined to comment on whether Paris had offered any civil nuclear deal to Islamabad, as was claimed by Pakistan Foreign Minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi recently.

May 16th, 2009 PARIS - France has offered Pakistan civilian nuclear technology similar to what India has obtained. "France has agreed to transfer civilian nuclear technology to Pakistan.

May 15th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - France has agreed to provide Pakistan with civilian nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, state-owned PTV reported Friday, quoting Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi. According to Qureshi, France has expressed its readiness for cooperating with Pakistan in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.