French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin "The halt to all violence is indispensable," he told a meeting of the World Jewish Congress's governing board, meeting for the first time in Paris. Villepin criticized continued Israeli overflights of Lebanon following the 34-day war this summer between Israel and Hizbullah fighters, calling them a "violation of the sovereignty of Lebanon."
French officials have regularly complained that the overflights violate a UN cease-fire resolution that paved the way for an end to the fighting.