Chirac: TV Network to Display French Values

PARIS - A French international TV network starting up in 2006 will be a vehicle for transmitting France's values and world vision to other parts of the globe, The president's comments at a Cabinet meeting came a day after Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin signed off on a deal for a joint venture between France Televisions and the private station TF1, clearing the way for the network's creation.
The French Channel for International Information, or CFII — will be able to "carry the values of France and its vision of the world everywhere on the globe," Chirac said, according to government spokesman Jean-Francois Cope.Authorities consider CFII a counterpoint to the influence of American and British global news networks.
"We must be first in the global battle of images," Chirac told the Cabinet.

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