French President says US is “not always right.“

(22 Oct 2002) 1. Pan from Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen to French President Jacques Chirac 2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen: “The Danish presidency had to set a out a clear timetable and a clear goal we aim at concluding negotiations with 10 candidate countries at the Copenhagen summit in December.“ 3. SOUNDBITE: (French) Jacques Chirac, French President “Regarding the question of Iraq, our relationship with the US and France goes back a long way - they (the relationships) are good and will stay good but they are not based on the idea that the US is always right and its not enough to always approve of what they say or do to be right. This is not how we view things we have our own appreciation of things and we will express it, not in an aggressive manner, but we will express it when we have to. I repeat, war is always the worst solution and we need to do within our means to achieve our objective in this case, ensuring t
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