Ecuador has also expropriated two blocks belonging to Anglo-French oil firm Perenco over tax disputes.
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This took an abrupt turn, however, after an Anglo-French summit meeting in December 1998 at St.
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In 1968, Russia's TU-144 supersonic airliner made its first flight, several months ahead of the Anglo-French Concorde, which it closely resembled.
In 1977, after two years of legal wrangling, the Anglo-French Concorde began regular flights to New York from London and Paris.
In 2004 he was knighted for services to Parliament and awarded the Legion d'Honneur in 2006 for his contributions to Anglo-French relations.
Launched in 1976, the Anglo-French supersonic airliner remains the epitome of dash.
This in turn helped to produce last year's Anglo-French defence agreement.
The Anglo-French initiative might be seen as populist politics unless major financial centres like New York and Hong Kong come under serious pressure to follow suit.
He and Mr Chirac exchanged such strong words at the summit that the French president, in a fit of pique, promptly cancelled the traditional end-of-year Anglo-French summit.
Ryl Nowell's garden, symbolising Anglo-French co-operation, features raised squares of mirror glass, a path of see-through mesh and a glass bridge over a strip of water representing the English Channel.
Inexorably, the evidence suggests that the Anglo-French decision was primarily aimed not at keeping the peace, but at recapturing the ground lost when President Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal in July.
The Libyan operation has strengthened the Anglo-French relationship.
Lord Guthrie also hailed the recent Anglo-French defence agreement the UK and France as "sensible" but warned the savings that would be made would not be "anything like as much as people think they will be".
When the Egyptians rejected this, British planes started bombing the Egyptian air force on the ground and on November 5th Anglo-French troops went ashore to begin the invasion of the canal zone and, it was hoped, topple Nasser.
Arab allegations of British collusion with Israel were a foregone conclusion, but it has been maladroit to the point of folly so to frame and execute Anglo-French policy as to give birth to the same belief in the United States.
But surely there is a more interesting possibility, which she does not consider: that Western misbehaviour, starting with Anglo-French colonial adventures in the Middle East and South Asia, reinforced some of the worst features of Islamic societies creating a vicious circle which has yet to be broken.
And to sidestep Anglo-French vetoes at the Security Council, for the first time the General Assembly met in emergency session (where no country held a veto) and took up a Canadian suggestion to assemble an international emergency force to go to the canal and monitor the ceasefire.
The French feared the draft document was making Europe more Anglo-Saxon to the peril of French social institutions.
"Unlike the Anglo-Saxon approach, the French attitude toward cinema doesn't always make entertaining the audience a priority, " Mr. Wilson muses.
The indigenous Anglo-Saxons and their new French-speaking masters had to communicate so English quickly evolved as a combination of the two parent languages.
Mr Cox, a former television presenter, is loquacious and intellectual, a fastidious dresser with a taste for outsized cufflinks, who spatters his conversation equally with French phrases and Anglo-Saxon oaths.
The French press suggests that Anglo-Saxon capitalism has produced a hopeless white underclass unique in Europe.
For France, another chunk of la Francophonie - of French influence in the world - was disappearing beneath the unstoppable advance of the Anglo-Saxons.
It is probably fair to say that the French are about as Gallic as the British are Anglo-Saxon, and that both misnomers would be best avoided.
Even the French press now seems to have woken up to the fact that Anglo-American criticism of France's position is of a different order than usual.
Mr Vinson alludes to the fact that many in the Anglo-Saxon world (including me and members of my family) have given up French wines and cheeses, Perrier water and visits to France in reaction to that country's attitude to the war in Iraq.
There General Wolfe demolished French claims to Canada, which confirmed that America would develop decisively within the Anglo-protestant mold.
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