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PARIS Victor Martinez Jersey , Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Socialists' target to bring down the rampant number of jobseekers by the year-end was already reached, French Labor Minister Michel Sapin said on Friday.


Speaking to Radio Classique, Sapin noted that the government's "willingness" to reverse the unemployment trend by the end of 2013 was "already achieved as in October, the number of unemployed people has decreased for the first time since five years."


"Reducing the number of people without work during one month, which is not so bad, is not enough. This must decrease month after month, in the long term Miguel Cabrera Jersey ," the minister stressed.


With the jobless claims hit a 16-year high at 10.9 percent during te third quarter of the year, the government introduced "jobs of the future" plan which aimed at facilitating the recruitment of poorly-qualified young workers from disadvantaged suburbs and rural areas mainly in the public sector.


"What matters, is not whether jobs are sponsored, but whether they are useful and provide a lasting solution," Sapin said in repsonse to the opposition critics over the government's use of state-backed job contracts to cut the unemplyment rate.


At the end of October, France numbered 20,500 less jobseekers to 3.275 million Nick Castellanos Jersey , compared to September, the lowest decline in job claims reported since May.


On Thursday, the national statistics institute Insee painted a grim outlook, forecasting that French gross domestic product would grow by only 0.2 percent in both the first and second quarters of 2014.


As a result, the unemployment rate would reach 11 percent by mid-2014, it added.


JERUSALEM, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has drawn a plan for achieving peace between Israel and its neighbors which includes ceding land for a future Palestinian state and the transfer of Israeli Arabs to live in it.


It came amidst a series of crises that have threatened to dismantle the coalition government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in recent weeks.


The document Kirk Gibson Jersey , obtained by Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot and published on Friday, details Lieberman's and his right-wing nationalist party, Yisrael Beitenu's (Israel Our Home) platform in the event that early elections are called.


Entitled "Swimming against the Current -- the Vision of Yisrael Beitenu," the document spells out Lieberman's plans and ideology, in the forefront of which is a regional peace plan that includes his readiness to relinquish territory for peace.


It is the first time that Lieberman is proposing a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and he is expected to present his plan to European foreign ministers at a gathering of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), to be held in Basel Al Kaline Jersey , Switzerland next week, and a day later to senior Obama administration officials at the Saban Forum in the United States, according to Yediot Ahronot.


Reasoning his willingness to cede land for a Palestinian state, Lieberman underscores that while he has not given up his dream of a Greater Israel (a term referring to the state's current territory in its disputed post-1967 borders), he has reached the conclusion that "the unity of the nation overpowers the wholeness of the land... because you cannot compromise on the integrity of the people or overcome its loss."


Lieberman, traditionally among the hard-line members of Netanyahu's governments, explains that contrary to the fixed perception of other parties Alan Trammell Jersey , his party "understands that Israel's conflict with the Palestinians isn't just territorial, but is a three-dimensional conflict" that also involves the Arab states and Israel's Arab citizens, over 20 percent of the country's population.


"Therefore, an agreement with the Palestinians must be part of a comprehensive arrangement, which will include peace accords with Arab states and swapping territories and populations of Israeli Arabs," Lieberman writes.


The social turmoil in Arab capitals and the rise of radical Islam in the Middle East, he asserts Wholesale Detroit Tigers Jerseys , have created an opportunity to resolve the decades-long conflict with the Palestinians.


"Many understand that the Palestinian problem isn't the central problem, or the cause of unrest in the Middle East," the foreign minister writes.