Language summit attracts 70 countries representing 200 million French-speakers worldwide
Although Switzerland has a German-speaking majority, a French-language summit in Montreux is significant for the whole of the country, says Micheline Calmy, the Swiss foreign minister. A brief history of this international club of French-speaking countries. RSR-swissinfo.ch
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