past, culminated in a naval review in the evening. About 7,500 sailors, 6,500 of them aboard some 20 French and 8 foreign vessels from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, the United States and Britain, participated in the parade. Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin earlier addressed the African leaders at a lunch at his office, saying "brothers in arms have become blood brothers" and that the coalition in the south had helped liberate the northern part of the country. --More 2209 Local Time 1909 GMT
