French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian launched Thursday, October 29, a “
message of peace to the Muslim world
”, stressing that France was “the
country of tolerance
”, not of “
contempt or rejection
”.
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“
Don't listen to voices that seek to stir up mistrust.
Let us not be trapped in the excesses of a minority of manipulators,
”he declared during the examination of his ministry's budget in the National Assembly.