May 27th, 2009 - Telegraph
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A government spokesman said that this year's anniversary of the Normandy landings was "first and foremost a Franco-American ceremony given the recent election of President (Barack) Obama".
"There will be other June 6," said Luc Chatel, from President Nicolas Sarkozy's ruling right-wing UMP party.
France, he said, had sent an invitation to the British government, after receiving a request for one, but that it was not up to Paris to "designate British representation" at the D-Day event, he said.
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