Rudd In EU: The Economy; Security Talks; The Asia-Pacific; Remembering World War I …
- January 20th, 2012
- Posted by EUEditor
The Australian Foreign Minister, Kevin Rudd, has begun a one-week tour in Europe taking in consultations in Brussels on the economic situation, security talks in London and a new bilateral agreement in France, signed on Friday (20.1.12).
NEW AGREEMENT WITH FRANCE INCLUDES PACIFIC, AND THE WESTERN FRONT
An agreement signed in Paris with the French Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe, raised the status of the relationship between the two countries to that of a strategic partnership. … Read More »
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