A French diplomat in New York failed to secure a visa for his gay partner, despite their marriage-like pacte civil.

一名法国驻纽约的外交官就未能为其同性配偶取得签证，尽管他们有婚姻式的“民事互助契约(pacte civil)”[1]。

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There is a pacte, he said, two thousand years old, between the greatness of France and the liberty of the world.

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Known in France as the PACS (pacte civil de solidarite), the civil union agreement can be entered into by gay or straight couples and confers many but not all of the rights of marriage.

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Known in France as the PACS, or pacte civil de solidarite, the civil union agreement can be entered into by same-sex or straight couples and confers many but not all of the rights of marriage.

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