New Middle East conference: a non-starter
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There&#39;s been a lukewarm reaction to a British-backed Middle East conference. Israel says it will boycott the meeting pencilled in for February in London.
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It's conference season, and there's still a chance to sign up for lightning talks. Until now, there were no written rules for giving lighting talks. Mark Fowler explains.
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Israel is prepared to back a Middle East conference convened by Tony Blair early next year despite having expressed fears that the British plans were over-ambitious and designed
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Abu Dhabi has an unlikely proposal for the Middle East. It involves $27 billion, the worldâs top architects and a brand-new city of culture.
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Why the American President's agenda for the region doesn't square with the perspectives of the area's Arab populace
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In a few years, Iraq will be a distant, if painful memory. Our new focus almost certainly will be on Iran and North Korea. In the strange way that geopolitics
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Iran's nuclear weapon program has become a pressing issue, even more so after North Korea joined the exclusive club. There have been a lot of hand-wringing, negotiations and threatening involving Iran. But no action. And any action seems unlikely or - at the most - ineffective. In this article I argue that economic sanctions even if imposed will not be effective in stopping Iran's nuclear program, and that military intervention is unlikely. Therefore Iran will join the nuclear club and it is only a matter of time.
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Investor's Business Daily - Former British PM Tony Blair kicked off his first visit to the Middle East as the international community&#39;s new envoy to the region, hoping to add momentum to fledgling peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians. During the 2-day visit, Blair planned to meet with Israeli PM Ehud Olmert, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and other top officials.
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Since the peace process began at the 1991 Madrid Conference, Gaza has not been a topic for negotiation. That&#39;s because everyone realized that in any peace agreement with the Palestinians there would cease to be an Israeli presence in the Strip.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is under pressure from his Fatah faction not to attend a U.S.-led Middle East conference, aides said on Tuesday, citing uncertainty over its participants and outcome.
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In addition to the differences between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, the GCC&#39;s 25th summit is expected to discuss the reflections of the political and security situations in Iraq on the region and several security, political and economic issues including
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt: It was meant to be a grand forum to help solve the increasingly bloody problem of Iraq. The result was an expeditious meeting that took a lofty stand but promised little in the way of action.
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An unlikely meeting of minds on an issue of global concern.
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Argentina, Denmark, Greece, Japan and Tanzania are the next non-permanent Security Council members.
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By Philip Webster, Political Editor, and Ian MacKinnon in Jerusalem. BRITAIN will step up efforts to maintain the momentum towards Middle East peace this week by fleshing out plans for a London conference to
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This is sad. Kofi Annan convenes a grand council of the great and the good of international diplomacy and asks them to come up with a new charter that re-invents the United Nations.
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Editor. This article is from the political-economic monthly IRAN FOCUS, published by the UK based Menas Associates. For more on Menas Associates please visit www.