French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin contradicted the official Kremlin line that the Chechen war was over and won but reaffirmed France\'s desire to work with Moscow to create a \"new international order.\" \"Chechnya is in a state of open war, with its daily quota of dramas and its risks of destabilisation for neighbouring countries, from Turkey to Iran,\" de Villepin said, addressing a group of students in Moscow where he also met his Russian counterpart Igor Ivanov. Moscow has consistently referred to the fighting in Chechnya, where it poured in troops to put down a separatist insurgency in October 1999, as an \"anti-terrorist operation\" and not a war, and has for several months insisted that the situation in the southern republic has been \"normalized.\" De Villepin noted that \"terrorism must be condemned and fought with the greatest firmness, and Russia\'s territorial integrity respected, but there cannot be a durable solution on the sole basis of a security strategy.\" Answering questions alongside Ivanov after their talks, de Villepin said that \"everything must be done to find a solution, (but) there can be no security-based solution in any crisis.\" His comments on Chechnya were the strongest by a French official for at least two years. While praising Russia\'s \"original vision of the world\" and its \"vocation of becoming a major pillar of the new world order,\" he also stressed the \"urgent need of a solution that will put an end to the years of suffering\" in Chechnya. Ivanov for his part insisted that there was \"no war in Chechnya, but a struggle against international terrorism.\" (AFP)