We are in favor of a solid agreement ... for now there remain difficulties, there has been progress but as far as the volume, checks and duration of the envisaged commitments are concerned, the situation is still insufficient, so there is more work to be done.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius

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There are the ambiguities including among the actors of the coalition ... I'm not going to repeat what I've said before about the main pilot of the coalition, but we don't have the feeling that there is a very strong commitment that is there.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius

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Humanitarian law must be respected and the objective of a political transition actively pursued to enable the talks to succeed.

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I spoke to Mr. Hijab ... he will respond to de Mistura and Ban Ki-moon this morning, if I understand their position, they say yes to negotiations.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius

How could this man unite a people that he has in part massacred? the idea that he could once again stand for elections is unacceptable to us.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius

Trust was created, it was this trust that got things done. The text is very complicated and very long etcetera, and in the last version of the text, the stenographers made a typing error... Instead of saying - as in the two previous versions - that the parties 'should' do this and that, 'shall.' was written.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius

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With a small hammer you can achieve great things.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius

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But the atmosphere is good, things are positive, things are going in the right direction.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius

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This is radically new.

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You have positive elements and others that need to be resolved.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius

As far as the strikes themselves are concerned, we have to check that it really was Daesh and terrorist groups that really have been targeted and not opponents to the Syrian regime or the civilian population.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius

They are extremely harsh. Hungary is part of Europe, which has values and we do not respect those value by putting up fences.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius

Its worrying, military operations must stop and arms be withdrawn... Secondly, we need to right conditions for elections in the Donbass (eastern Ukraine).

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius

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French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius

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All that is important both for regional security and for action against nuclear proliferation.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius

We want a deal with Iran but ... the deal must be verifiable, solid, robust and today we don't have guarantees on this, a deal that cannot be verified cannot be implemented.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius

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French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius

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The Iranians has the right to have civil nuclear program but not an atomic bomb.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius

Ordinary citizens are wondering how so many countries gathered here together, who call themselves the 'United Nations,' have so far been unable to tackle terrorism and eradicate it.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius

France wants an agreement, but a robust one that really guarantees that Iran can have access to civilian nuclear power, but not the atomic bomb.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius

The solution is a political transition (which) must both preserve regime institutions - not Mr Bashar al-Assad - ... and include the opposition, of course. That is the direction we are working in. It is the only realistic solution.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius