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May 22nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The UK Foreign Office lost an appeal against an order by the information commissioner, Christopher Graham, to release extracts of a phone conversation between the two leaders, who have been accused of distorting comments by former French president Jacques Chirac in order to trash efforts to get a second UN resolution on the proposed invasion of Iraq.
“Accountability for the decision to take military action against another country is paramount,” said Graham in his original order, which was made in response to a freedom of information request by Stephen Plowden, a private individual who demanded disclosure of the entire record of the conversation occurred a week before the illegal war.
Upholding the ruling yesterday on Monday May 21, a panel chaired by information tribunal judge John Angel said it has found it “difficult to accept” the UK Foreign Office witnesses downplaying the importance of the decision to go to war.
“Also in our view, particularly from the evidence in this case, the circumstances surrounding a decision by a UK government to go to war with another country is always likely to be of very significant public interest, even more so with the consequences of this war,” Angel said in his ruling.
However, claiming that publishing any part of the conversation could do “serious damage” to Britain’s relations with the US, an FCO spokesman said, “The FCO is obviously disappointed by the decision of the tribunal. We will want to study the terms of the judgment more closely over the coming days.”
The tribunal ordered the UK Foreign Office to make public Blair’s part of the transcript within 30 days.
According to documents released by the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war, the French have repeatedly complained about the way their position was being presented by the British, ignoring their objections.
On March 10, 2003, former French president Jacques Chirac told French TV that even if there was a majority, France would vote no, distancing Paris from a second resolution at the United Nations.
Meanwhile, Sir John Holmes, Britain’s Ambassador to France at the time, told the inquiry that Chirac’s words were “clearly ambiguous”.
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