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PARIS, Jan. 31 — President Jacques Chirac has demanded that the United States sign both the Kyoto climate protocol and a future agreement that will take effect when the Kyoto accord runs out in 2012. He said that he welcomed last week’s State of the Union address in which President Bush described climate change as a “serious challenge” and acknowledged that a growing number of American politicians now favor emissions cuts. But he warned that if the United States did not sign the agreements, a carbon tax across Europe on imports from nations that have not signed the Kyoto treaty...

<p>Controversy develops over Reagan funeral speakers...</p> <p>'President Clinton really held out all hope the funeral would be a nonpartisan event, like Nixon's was,' a top Clinton source said on Tuesday morning. 'He's angry and disappointed neither he nor President Carter have been asked to speak, as of yet'...</p>

Daschle in another meltdown hissy fit screeched that he was "saddened, saddened that this president failed so miserably at diplomacy that we’re now forced to war" in a purely partisian and hypocritical shot at President Bush. However in 1998 when it came to Clinton, Daschle wrote to Clinton demanding that he "take all necessary and appropriate actions to respond to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs." as he personally co-sponsored a war resolution that urged Mr. Clinton to use military action against Iraq. In another hypocritical statment regarding that 1998 resolution,...

OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Jean Chretien has found an ally in defence of his comments linking the greed and arrogance of rich countries -- including the United States -- with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Sunera Thobani, the professor and feminist leader who was at the eye of a storm over anti-U.S. comments one year ago, stood up for the PM yesterday. "When I heard it, I said 'Right on prime minister,' " the University of British Columbia professor told Sun Media. One year ago, just weeks after the terrorist attacks, Thobani suggested U.S. foreign policy was "soaked in blood."...

PM links attacks to 'arrogant' West 'You cannot exercise your power to the point of humiliation of others': Chrétien Sheldon Alberts, Deputy Ottawa Bureau Chief National Post Thursday, September 12, 2002 OTTAWA - Jean Chrétien has linked the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to perceived Western greed and arrogance and said the United States should not use its position as the world's only superpower to humiliate people in poorer nations. In an interview that aired last night on CBC-TV, the Prime Minister for the first time suggested the strikes against New York and Washington stemmed from a growing international anger at...

OTTAWA-- Prime Minister Jean Chrétien told CBC-TV in an interview Tuesday night that the United States must accept some responsibility for the terror attacks of last September. The prime minister said the Western world "is getting too rich in relation to the poor world." The interview was recorded last July and aired on CBC-TV Tuesday night as part of a documentary commemorating the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Chrétien also said he authorized American fighter jets to shoot down a suspect Korean passenger plane over Canadian airspace last Sept. 11, if it...

New York Times September 9, 2002 Pg. 1 French Leader Offers Formula To Tackle Iraq By Elaine Sciolino PARIS, Sept. 8 — President Jacques Chirac of France proposed a two-stage plan today that could lead to United Nations authorization of military force against Iraq. In a wide-ranging interview at Élysée Palace, he said that he personally would like to see a new Iraqi government, but that any attempt to oust Saddam Hussein without the backing of a Security Council resolution would be a recipe for chaos in global affairs. Mr. Chirac called Mr. Hussein a man who "is especially dangerous...