With municipal elections approaching in France, Mr. Chirac would like to have a settlement to offer the 400,000 ethnic Armenians in France.
Thirteen class action suits were filed, and Mr. Frey's publisher, Random House, ended up agreeing as part of a settlement to offer a full refund to consumers who bought the book before Mr. Frey admitted to fictionalizing sections.
Some have protested at moves by Euroclear, a pan-European clearing and settlement house, to offer banking-like securities services.
Sarah Ludwig, director of the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, based in Manhattan, said the proposed settlement "appears to offer small benefits against the backdrop of abusive lending practices".
It was unclear, however, what political settlement Poroshenko intended to offer the east.
On Wednesday, he urged Israel to refrain from further settlement construction and to offer good-will gestures to the Palestinians.
The American people wanted "$300 billion in principal reduction" instead of the $20 billion or so the settlement was likely to offer, the group added.
The claimants decided to divide the settlement equally and to offer payments even to the two women who lost their cases in administrative hearings.
JERUSALEM — The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, urged Israel on Wednesday to refrain from further settlement construction and to offer good-will gestures to the Palestinians during a visit aimed at revitalizing the largely moribund peace process.
In a final settlement, Israel is expected to offer the Palestinians land swaps elsewhere to compensate.
