US Reportedly Favors Australian As Next IAEA Chief
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Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer declined to comment Monday on reports that the US government has been pressing him to announce his candidacy to replace the head of the UN nuclear watchdog.
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A US-Australia push for stronger nuclear safeguards is likely to dominate the security debate at this year&#39;s APEC leaders meeting in Santiago, Chile.
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SYDNEY - Australia is considering signing a new defence and security agreement with Indonesia to replace a treaty that was scrapped after Canberra led United Nations peacekeepers into East Timor in 1999.
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: Australia will enjoy a close security relationship with Indonesia if former general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has won presidential elections there as early returns indicate, Prime Minister John Howard said Tuesday.
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Australians voted Saturday in an  election which offered the choice between a conservative  government that unreservedly backs the United States and its  Iraq war and a Labor opposition seeking stronger ties in Asia.
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Australians voted on Saturday in an  election which offered the choice between a conservative  government that unreservedly backs the United States and its  Iraq war and a Labor opposition seeking stronger ties in Asia.
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TONY EASTLEY: Australia&#39;s Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has begun a diplomatic mission to North Korea, aimed at helping to resolve the standoff over the regime&#39;s nuclear weapons program.
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The US ambassador to Germany said he would &quot;seriously consider&quot; replacing Donald Rumsfeld as US defense secretary if President George W. Bush won re-election next week and asked him to fill the post.
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Top cabinet figures want former Australian opposition leader Kim Beazley to take over as governor-general, the official representative in Australia of Queen Elizabeth II, a report said Sunday.
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A statement by US Secretary of State Colin Powell revealing information about Iranian efforts to obtain nuclear weapons has created a stir in Washington.
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Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said he used his visit to North Korea to call on the communist country to attend the next round of six-nation talks on dismantling its nuclear program.
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NEW YORK: Though India, Brazil and Germany are widely regarded as potential candidates, the US is prepared to name only Japan for the permanent membership of the UN Security Council at this stage, according to the Secretary of State, Mr Colin Powell.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave Australia&#39;s foreign minister a tour of Silicon Valley on Thursday, hinting she would return there as a professor after next year&#39;s presidential election.
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The federal government has received bipartisan support for a proposed new security deal with Indonesia. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says it&#39;s possible Australia could negotiate a security and anti-terrorism
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THE Federal Government would inform Australians if it went ahead with a new security agreement with Indonesia, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today.
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SYDNEY, Aug 20  - Australia on Friday played down a diplomatic row sparked by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, who said Australia would not be obliged to help its key ally, the United States, if Taiwan were attacked by China.
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CANBERRA, Australia (Dow Jones): The Australian government said Friday it anticipates closer cooperation with Indonesia&#39;s new president on combatting terrorism in the region.