Considering this progress, and in the general interest of the country, I ask farmers to lift the barricades in the coming hours.

Do we want to see the death of French farming? We absolutely have to support cattle breeding which is in a desperate state since the mad cow and foot-and-mouth crises.

There is no chance right now of the farmers lifting their blockades. This was a fake negotiation. We call for real negotiations.

Not much progress has been made on the negotiations on the major issues of interest and concern for Africa.

We've been a country for 150 years but made no progress. This should be a rich country but where has all the money gone? Corruption!

Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country," Greenspan said.