French President Jacques Chirac, and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met over a working lunch in Chirac"s official palace to discuss an International
conference on Iraq. One of the main points would be to examine the continued deployment of US-led troops there as part of a wide-ranging agenda. The
Cairo gathering is to be attended by officials from Iraq and its neighbouring countries as well as the G8 group of industrialised nations, the United
Nations , the Arab League and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference.
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Chirac and visiting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak agreed that "all the questions to do with the future of Iraq" should be discussed at the
conference to be held November 25 in Cairo, spokesman Jerome Bonnafont said after a meeting between the two leaders in Paris.
Those questions would include "the implementation of Resolution 1546," he said.
Bonnafont was referring to a UN Security Council text adopted in June which covered the transfer of sovereignty to an interim Iraqi administration and
which stipulated that the mandate for the US-led forces in Iraq would be re-examined by the administration or by the council in June 2005.
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President Chirac has drawn criticism for not backing and being involved in "Operation Iraqi Freedom". France, and Germany as well, have stated that
they will not send troops to Iraq no matter what the outcome of the US Presidential Election is.
