French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said the conference needed to exert the maximum pressure on the Syrian government and also on Russia, but insisted there was no military option on the table and France could not envisage such an option without an international mandate.
With four of its eight games already played, Spain is second with eight points, two behind table-topping France, whom it visits on Tuesday.
Now that all the cards are on the table, if France is allowed to violate the treaty, no one would comply and the Euro currency would be doomed.
"It is actually Britain who has been working with Germany and France to get those rules on the international table, " he said.
UPS, the world's biggest parcel-delivery service, from New York to Paris, France, than to Anchorage, Alaska (see table).
The leaders of 17 nations sat at an arc-shaped table in the opulent Salle des Fetes of France's Elysee Palace, the same room used to sign the Bosnia peace accords, for the signing of the Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security.
And, this being France, the festival will also host several weighty round-table debates on subjects such as the meaning of the new art and its sociological implications.
In 1669, in a bid to cut down on violence, King Louis XIV of France decreed all pointed knives on the street or the dinner table illegal, and ordered all knife points ground down.
Germany said the UK could not "cherry-pick" while France said "a la carte" membership was not on the table.
The previous French attempt to regain a place at the top table of military planning collapsed in 1996, partly because France bid too high for senior commands.
Combine that with a hedonistic, 650-bottle wine list and a cheese trolley on a level with France's best, and you understand why you hear sighs from the next table, and your own.
By nearly every measure, the company--France's second-largest, after France Telecom, by market capitalization--lags behind its peers, (see table).
The neatly set-out wine glasses tumble over onto the trestle table as the knot of camera crews and photographers seethe around the woman who would be President of France, Segolene Royal.
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