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| We warmly welcome the preliminary peace agreement for Mali reached yesterday in Ouagadougou. |
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| Times are changing. The world’s fastest computer is now in China. |
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| Beginning this sunny day with Cabinet meeting. It’s a day earlier because of the approaching Midsummer. |
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| President Obama to open for further reduction of nuclear weapons in Berlin today. Welcome. Just hope need to reduce tactical ones included. |
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| 15,4 million refugees in world last year. The largest number we have seen since 1994. Every one a tragedy. |
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| Cathy Ashton visit today and tomorrow shows that EU remains engaged with and concerned over development in Egypt. |
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| But to cancel meetings and refuse discussions is not particularly mature. Seems to apply to both sides. |
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| Here there is a clear and present danger of Turkish government entering territory incompatible with Europe. |
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| Today start of official visit of King and Queen of Sweden to Norway. Focus on dynamic North. Key relationship for both countries. |
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| Leaving the heat in Paris after very good political talks and most interesting visits at Le Bourget. Most useful update on technologies. |
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| Impressed also by the ESA Alphasat very large telecommunication satellite. Europe builds for the future. |
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| Europe showing at Le Bourget. Ariane 5 giant space launcher and Swedish Gripen fighter. Extreme high tech. |
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| Good meeting with France FM Fabius. Noted progress in Mali. Support for EU and UN missions. |
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| High Representative Catherine visits & |
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| Starting day in Paris with meeting my colleague Laurent Fabius. Syria, Mali, Eastern partnership and EU enlargement among issues on agenda. |
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| Paris today has gone from torrential rain and thunder over tropical heat to drab and cold rain. Things were better before. |
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| For all the attention to the tragedy in Syria, we must not ignore the drift in largest Arab country Egypt. |
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| Réception dans une heure à la résidence pour participants suédois et français au Bourget, nos ministres Bildt et Elmsäter-Svärd à la tête. |
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| Turkey must take legal and democratic reforms seriously in order to move forward with the EU accession agenda. |
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| I welcome announcement today of the start of negotiations on Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. Important for both sides. |
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