US Middle East reform initiative to hold first session in Morocco
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A Washington-inspired project for Middle East reform will begin in Morocco next month by looking at ways of improving cooperation and strengthening political and economic reform, the foreign ministry said.
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Outgoing US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Saturday at the first Forum for the Future that reform in the Middle East can only be from within.
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Political reform in the developing world, including the Middle East, is a "necessity," Qatar's ruler told world leaders at the United Nations, addressing an issue that has come to the fore with the U.S. push to turn Iraq into a democracy.
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President George W. Bush will meet Tony Blair in New York on Monday, their first direct talks since the former British prime minister became international Middle East envoy, the White House said.
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Egypt was meant to be a test case for President Bush's push for greater democracy in the Middle East. But stalled reforms and bitterness over the jailing of hundreds of dissidents are haunting his visit here Wednesday.
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A US congressional delegation met with Iraqi President Sheikh Ghazi al-Yawar renewing America's commitment to the country's transition process no matter what the outcome of the November vote is back home.
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Polls opened in Morocco on Friday in parliamentary elections expected to show gains for opposition Islamists pushing an anti-corruption message that has drawn wide support in the north African kingdom.
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The US secretary of state sets off for the Middle East to try to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace moves.
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President Bush, trying to nurture fragile peace talks between Israeli and Palestinians, will make his first trip to Israel and the West Bank next month as part of a nine-day swing through the Middle East.
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President Bush said today that he would appoint an envoy to an organization of Islamic nations with the intention of improving the battered image of the United States in the Muslim world.
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US President Bush says he is ready to pressure Middle East peace negotiators, as he makes his first visit to Israel.
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RABAT, Morocco, Dec. 11 -- Senior Arab officials attending a U.S.-sponsored conference to promote democracy in the Middle East emphatically rejected on Saturday the Bush administration's assertion that greater democracy in the region would help end terrorism. They argued that the administration's strong support of Israel made it difficult to undertake political reform or to stop extremists driven by hatred of U.S. policies.
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RABAT: Arab leaders on Saturday resisted US calls for speedy democratic reforms in their country, saying the steps that the US deems essential to stem terrorism must be preceded by a just and durable peace in the Middle East.
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The Bush administration is preparing with European allies to help the Palestinian Authority organize January elections and improve its security forces to crack down on
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The Bush administration, responding to negative reviews of an international conference on Middle East democracy last week in Morocco, said that the event provided a platform for human rights and other nongovernmental groups in the Arab world.
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The Tories are expected to call for renewed efforts to encourage Middle East countries to accept reform.
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The Quartet of Middle East mediators gathers for the first time with Tony Blair as special envoy on Thursday at a meeting expected to focus on a U.S. push to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace moves.