Sentence examples for a french statement from inspiring English sources

A four-way telephone call with the leaders of Ukraine and Russia was followed by a French statement saying there was agreement that the package of measures negotiated in Minsk last week should be implemented "strictly and in their entirety".

Chirac clearly felt that the time had come to make a tough, resoundingly "French" statement on secularism.

The French statement said that further investigation was necessary to "verify those initial results and determine the exact causes of the explosion".

But the French statement also emphasized the importance of diplomacy as opposed to military pressure as the best way to achieve success.

The British and French statements reinforced a sense that the window for diplomatic efforts to halt the 18-month-old conflict might have closed, as new crackdowns by the Syrian military were reported in the Damascus suburbs.

But French statements have not been supported by any unilateral action.

A French foreign ministry statement said the objects were about 2,300km from Perth, but did not give a direction or say when the discovery was made.

Indeed, in October 1955, a French magazine published a surprising statement by a German critic.

He asked Salan to sign a statement that a French Algeria was "no longer... realistic" and that the OAS battle was "in vain".

A seemingly careless statement to a French Web site by an executive at Nokia, Microsoft's close partner in phones, indicates that Nokia will have a Windows 8 tablet in June.

The lender, which is in merger talks with a French rival, said in a statement that the loss was the result of "extreme market volatility" last week, and that the position had been closed.