Blair and Chirac attempt to heal Euro rift over Iraq

TONY BLAIR and Jacques Chirac yesterday attempted to paper over the cracks in Europe about war in Iraq by agreeing that the crisis must be resolved through the United Nations.

At the end of a wide-ranging Anglo-French summit in Le Touquet, the two leaders insisted they were united around the twin objectives of disarming Saddam Hussein and doing so through the UN.

But Mr Chirac gave a hint of strong French resistance to military action in the weeks to come by warning that war was “always the worst possible solution”.