UK's Ashdown will not be UN Afghan envoy
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British diplomat Paddy Ashdown said Sunday he had withdrawn from consideration for a U.N. post as a so-called "super envoy" to Afghanistan after Afghan officials said he was not their preferred candidate.
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Â· Britain alarmed by critics in US administration Â· Ministers deny mission in southern Iraq has failed
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The British government says there is no reason why devolution cannot be restored to Northern Ireland.Comment
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Britain said it was not "engaged" with the Taliban, after a report that relations between London and Kabul have soured due to a secret British plan to train former Taliban fighters.
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Great Britain has dismissed its ambassador to Uzbekistan after months of the diplomat&#39;s speaking out against the Asian nation&#39;s poor human rights record.
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Britain on Thursday rejected a claim by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan that the U.S.-led Iraq war was "illegal" because Washington and its coalition allies never got Security Council backing for the ...
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A UK foreign minister insists that Britain does not want its diplomatic dispute with Russia to go "any wider".
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A United Nations official and an EU diplomat ordered out of Afghanistan on allegations of posing a national security threat left the country on Thursday, the two organisations said.
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Aid to Afghanistan should not be linked  to progress on combating drug production, the Afghan government  said on Wednesday, rejecting remarks by the United Nations  anti-narcotics chief.
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British Foreign Minister Jack Straw said his country does not plan to deploy forces to Darfur in western Sudan but will provide technical assistance.
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Briton Paddy Ashdown, the international community's former envoy to Bosnia, withdrew his bid to be the United Nations' new representative in Afghanistan Sunday, citing insufficient support from Kabul.
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Pakistan opposition leader was not killed by gunshots, according to British pathologist
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Former Tory leader William Hague has ruled out standing for the leadership again, a newspaper reports.
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Revelation that neither country foresaw Iraq insurgency undermines British blame of Rumsfeld
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Paddy Ashdown, the senior British diplomat whose candidacy as UN envoy to Afghanistan was vetoed by the country's president, outlined Wednesday the plan he had devised for Afghanistan had he gotten the job.
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will not be &quot;joined together at the hip&quot; with US President George W. Bush, one of Brown&#39;s foreign ministers said in an interview published Saturday.
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Domestic Afghan politics were behind President Hamid Karzai's veto of Paddy Ashdown as the new United Nations envoy there, the senior British diplomat said Sunday.