Pave: No-Mock Post, VII

Le jour 231 de Sarko

Monsieur, c'est Noël (+7). Arrêtez de vous moquer.

[Mister, it's Christmas (+7). Stop your mock.]

Beleaguered franchouille
(Christmas post)

Presented without mock.*

FRANCE ENDS CONTACT WITH SYRIA
OVER LEBANESE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
CAIRO December 31, 2007 (IHT/AP)

SYRIA: OUR TIES WITH FRANCE ARE STRONG

December 31, 2007 (JPost) - "Syrian-French relations continue even at this very moment," Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal said Monday morning, a day after French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced that he was cutting all ties with the Presidential Palace in Damascus "until further notice."

Bilal, speaking to the pan-Arab Asharq Alwasat daily, said Syrian ties with France "included no demand that we press our friends in Lebanon."

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UPDATE 01.02.08: The mock is inhered.*

SYRIA HALTS CONTACTS WITH FRANCE ON LEBANON

January 2, 2008 (VOA) — Syria's foreign minister, Walid Muallem, said Wednesday that Damascus has suspended working with France to resolve the political deadlock in Lebanon.

Syria says French officials are blaming Damascus for their own failure to solve the deadlock, where Lebanon's pro-Western government faces opposition parties backed by Syria and Iran.

Last week, Lebanon's parliament postponed a presidential vote for the 11th time.

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* This being a Christmastide no-mock post we do not mock France's solicitude for Lebanon here -- but we do mock aplenty here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.