Powell for Arab democracy but Middle East no ready convert
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IT WAS first unveiled to the world as the American dream for spreading democracy right across the Middle East. But by the time US secretary of state Colin Powell came to launch the administrationâs &quot;big
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell has stressed the need for economic and political reforms in the Arab world to defeat terrorism.
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RABAT, Morocco _ A high-profile effort by the Bush administration to spark reform across the Middle East was greeted with skepticism here Saturday as Arab leaders, including close US allies, questioned
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Israel and the Palestinians were  unmoved by the resignation on Monday of Secretary of State  Colin Powell, widely seen as having taken a back seat to the  White House in steering Washington's Middle East policy.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell says the transitional Iraqi government to be set up after next month&#39;s elections will have to &quot;find a way&quot; to assure that Sunni Muslims are fairly represented.
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Senior Arab officials attending a U.S.-sponsored conference in the Middle East rejected the Bush administration's assertion that greater democracy would help end terrorism, arguing that the administration's strong support of Israel made it difficult to undertake political reforms or halt extremists driven by hatred of U.S. policies.
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JERUSALEM - US assistant secretary of state William Burns is in the Middle East preparing the way for a visit by Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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Dubai, Nov. 23 (NNN) : US Secretary of State Colin Powell has urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to make the most of new chances for peace in the Middle East.
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US-funded efforts to spread democracy in Middle East meet with resistance.
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Arab governments have reminded US President George W. Bush of his commitment to Middle. East diplomacy, in the hope a second Bush administration will pay more attention to one of their top priorities.
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In a bid to &quot;re-energize&quot; the stalled Mideast peace process in the wake of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death, Secretary of State Colin Powell made his first visit to Israel
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BEIRUT: Consistently second only to Ariel Sharon in terms of unpopularity among Arabs, US President George W. Bush&#39;s re-election victory was greeted in the Arab world with a sense of disillusionment and foreboding.
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WASHINGTON -- Colin L. Powell, the former secretary of state, cast doubt yesterday on the feasibility of a plan to send tens of thousands more US troops to Iraq, and Senator Edward M. Kennedy and other Democrats vowed to oppose the idea.
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Outgoing US Secretary of State Colin Powell told Israelâs prime minister today that the United States wanted to take advantage of new opportunities in the Middle East, and that it supported Palestinian elections set for January 9.
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U.S. calls for reform in the Middle East  clashed with Arab demands to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict on  Saturday as Washington insisted that economic and political  modernisation is needed to fight terrorism.
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Reviving a long-dormant U.S.  peacemaking role, Secretary of State Colin Powell won an  Israeli pledge on Monday to allow Palestinians freedom of  movement to enable them to hold an election for Yasser Arafat's  successor.
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Arabs said on Thursday they doubted former British Prime Minister Tony Blair could succeed as Middle East peace envoy because of his unpopularity and because he is too close to Israel and the United States.