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Thousands Join Anti-war Marches in France

Thousands of protesters took to the streets in a dozen of French cities on Saturday afternoon to demonstrate against a looming US-led war on Iraq.

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Thousands of protesters took to the streets in a dozen of French cities on Saturday afternoon to demonstrate against a looming US-led war on Iraq.

About 1,000 demonstrators marched in central Paris behind a slogan reading "No to war against Iraq, yes to a world of justice,peace and democracy."

The opposition Socialist party joined the protest and planned to distribute 500,000 copies of pacifist petition calling on the French authorities to use its veto power when the United Nations Security Council authorizes the use of force against Iraq.

The rally launched by about 40 national organizations, associations, labor unions and leftist parties, also hit streets in other 40 more towns and cities across France such as Marseilles,Lyon, Montpellier and Toulouse, reported French radios.

"The public opinion could push for a firm position of France, which holds the presidency of the UN Security Council in January, so that France will have its categorical refusal to military intervention heard, even by the use of its veto if necessary," said Regine Minetti, spokesman of the Movement of Peace.

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