Powell is due to meet both Jospin and French President Jacques Chirac while in France.
French President Jacques Chirac said the decision had been postponed "for a few days".
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French President Jacques Chirac has previously warned that U.S. plans are greatly reminiscent of the Cold War attitude.
Tension has been high since French President Jacques Chirac threatened to use his country's veto in the U.N.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair hosted the meeting with French President Jacques Chirac, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and Schroeder.
Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali were among the other foreign leaders who joined current French President Jacques Chirac for the memorial.
French President Jacques Chirac has proposed a two-step plan for resuming inspections backed by the threat of military force.
Earlier, French President Jacques Chirac issued his strongest signal yet that France would contribute troops to any operation against Iraq.
Queen Elizabeth II is to lay a wreath with French President Jacques Chirac and unveil a statue of Winston Churchill.
French President Jacques Chirac spoke of his horror on hearing the news.
French President Jacques Chirac recently announced plans for yet another generation of nuclear power stations, which would come on line by 2020.
"We reaffirmed our full solidarity not only from the heart but also from our sense of reason, " French President Jacques Chirac said.
French President Jacques Chirac said on Tuesday that Paris, which lost out to Beijing for the 2008 Olympics, had his "total support".
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This overture seemed to have been embraced by such harsh Iraq war critics as French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
French President Jacques Chirac said the EU was shocked by Russia's aggression, while the German Chancellor, Gerhard Shroeder, called the campaign "very worrying".
French President Jacques Chirac took up the cause, and last month six countries petitioned the European Union to fund an alternative library scanning initiative.
French President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin had told their EU partners on Friday they could not go any further on energy liberalisation.
Among those who won't be attending is French President Jacques Chirac, who was in Georgia for the G-8 summit but opted to return to Paris.
French President Jacques Chirac told his nation today that he would sign a controversial new jobs law, but he promised to amend some of its key provisions.
French President Jacques Chirac, in a letter to the late king's family, said the monarch's "extraordinary devotion" to his people was an example to all world leaders.
But French President Jacques Chirac betrayed impatience with Muammar Gadhafi during a visit to Tunis earlier this month for a regional summit also attended by the Libyan leader.
In a joint statement, Japan's Premier Mori and French President Jacques Chirac said they accepted that many people were worried by the growing globalisation of the world economy.
Just yesterday French President Jacques Chirac said he opposes sanctions.
The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, was met at the airport in Toulouse by French President Jacques Chirac's wife Bernadette and French justice minister, Dominique Perben.
French President Jacques Chirac is due to meet Juncker on Wednesday to discuss Mittal's bid, and whether to enlist European Union competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, in their crew.
If French President Jacques Chirac or German Chancellor Angela Merkel or Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh suddenly fell seriously ill, would the global media cover the story hour by hour?
Blair and other European leaders -- including French President Jacques Chirac, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder -- agree that a multi-faceted action against terrorism is needed.
French President Jacques Chirac, the summit host, told reporters that the EU leaders were desperately concerned about the escalating violence and wanted to do anything they could to help to restore dialogue.
The rare show of Franco-American unity as French president Jacques Chirac joined forces with the Bush administration to punish Assad for murdering Hariri was the second cause of Syria's withdrawal from Lebanon.
"We want to make clear that the enlargement process is irreversible, " a German government source told Reuters after talks between Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and French President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin.
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