PARIS, Nov. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- French President Jacques Chirac said Thursday that France needed to learn the lessons from the latest urban violence.

    "Reestablishment of order is for me an absolute priority ... which has not yet been achieved," Chirac said at the news conference after the summit talks with visiting Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero and key ministers.

    He said after consulting the French prime minister and government, he had taken all the necessary measures, including thedeclaration of state of emergency in France and the possibility toimpose curfews where they are judged necessary.

    "When the time comes and order has been established, it will benecessary to draw all the consequences from this crisis and do it with much courage and lucidity," he told journalists.

    Chirac also said it was time for "reflection, which I shall devote to explaining to my fellow citizens what my feelings are onthis crisis and the means to remedy it."

    "Whatever our origins we are all children of the republic. We can all claim the same rights but must of course all accept the same duties," he said.

    After the first night of curfew in 32 French cities overnight Wednesday, there was a "significant decline" in the number of nightly attacks, with 482 vehicles torched across the country and 203 people arrested, compared to 617 vehicles burned and 330 arrests on the previous night.

    Since the violence sparked on Oct. 27 in Clichy-sous-bois in northeast Paris suburb after the accidental electrocution of two teenagers in their fleeing from police identity check, nearly 7,000 vehicles were reported torched and 2,000 people arrested in all over the country. Enditem