PARIS (AFP) — French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Monday that Paris had resumed contacts with the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas,

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has said that Paris had resumed contacts with Palestinian movement Hamas in charge of Gaza Strip.

AP France has had informal contacts with Hamas, the militant Palestinian group that rules Gaza, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Monday.

PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Monday it had held talks with Hamas, in an apparent softening of its support for the US-led policy of isolating the

US-brokered peace talks between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert have made little tangible progress,

PARIS - France‘s foreign minister says Paris has had informal contacts with the leaders of the militant group Hamas. Kouchner was speaking on Europe-1 radio