Annan plans visit to Mideast this week
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan will travel to the Middle East later this week, visiting Lebanon, Israel and most likely Syria and Iran to try to garner support for the U.N. resolution that led to the fragile Israeli-Hezbollah cease-fire, the U.N. said Wednesday.
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UNITED NATIONS AP) &#151; The key international Mideast mediators will confer with former British prime minister Tony Blair for the first time next week in his new role promoting peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the U.N. said Friday.
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The US secretary of state is to meet the new Palestinian leadership in the West Bank next week, an official says.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to the Middle East next week, US officials announced, but with little prospect of producing a breakthrough in the long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s deputy, Mahmoud Abbas, and Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie plan to travel to Paris on Monday to visit the hospitalized president, Palestinian officials said on Sunday.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday he wants the upcoming meeting of key Mideast players to agree on a package to stop the Israeli-Hezbollah fighting and ensure lasting peace between Israel and Lebanon.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan intends to visit tsunami stricken Indonesia next week, as  the world increased aid pledges to $2 billion for victims in  South Asia, U.N. officials said on Saturday.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan makes his first visit to Washington next week since calls for his resignation, meeting Secretary of State Colin Powell and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to talk about Iraq, U.N. officials said on Friday.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, on a   mission to calm violence in the Middle East, holds talks in   Jordan on Thursday before going to Syria to seek its help in   bolstering a truce between Israel and Lebanon's Hizbollah.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell is  expected to visit the West Bank next week to meet the new  Palestinian leadership that has have taken power provisionally  after Yasser Arafat's death, a Palestinian official said.
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His trip includes Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath said Monday that US Secretary of State Colin Powell is expected to visit the West Bank next week to hold talks with the new Palestinian
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The Lebanon truce and Iran's nuclear programme are expected to top the agenda as Kofi Annan visits Iran.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is to fly to Sudan this week to meet government leaders to assess the humanitarian and security crisis.
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The US secretary of state is to visit the Middle East to try to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace moves.
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Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri will meet French President Jacques Chirac this week ahead of UN chief Kofi Annan's report on Syria's dominant role in Lebanon.
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JEDDAH, 15 November 2004 - With the Palestinian presidential election date fixed for Jan. 9, intense diplomatic moves are expected to begin this week to allow maximum participation and greater transparency