French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin (R) offers Russian Prime Minister
Mikhail Kassianov (L) a A320 model after the signature of a partnership
agreement between European aircraft consortium Airbus and Russian airline
Aeroflot in Toulouse, November 18, 2002. Airbus announced an order from
Russia's Aeroflot for 18 A320 family planes as Raffarin and Kassianov attend
a Franco-Russian intergovernmental meeting here. French Civil Service,
Administrative Reform and Regional Development Minister Jean-Paul Delevoye
(C Rear) and Industry Minister Nicole Fontaine (C Rear Right) look on.
REUTERS/Jean-Philippe Arles

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