Georgia, Romania May Boost Small UN Protection Force
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Fijian peacekeepers this month became the first to answer the call of a seven-month-old UN Security Council resolution urging a special protection force for United Nations workers in Iraq.
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WASHINGTON, Aug 17  - The United States is eyeing tensions between Georgia and separatists in Abkhazia and South Ossetia while hoping US influence with Georgia&#39;s new president can halt broader armed conflict in the Caucasus.
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Romania and Bulgaria, left out of the European Union's historic expansion which this year brought in 10 new countries, are on track to join the bloc in 2007 but Croatia will have to wait, according to an EU ...
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CONSTANTA, Romania  - One day after visiting Iraq, U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld toured a spruced-up military base here Monday and heard a Romanian government sales pitch for making it a new American outpost within easy reach of potential hot spots in the Middle East and Central Asia.
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CONSTANTA, Romania  - Defense Secretary Donald  Rumsfeld on Monday scouted an air base and an army facility in  Romania for possible use as future U.S. military installations.
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Japan, Greece, Denmark, Argentina and Tanzania have been elected to two-year terms on the UN Security Council. Japan plans to use its election as a springboard to campaign for a permanent council seat.
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The UN has chosen Argentina, Denmark, Greece, Japan and Tanzania as the five states to become non-permanent members of the Security Council next year.
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EU leaders seeking to reassure skeptical voters about plans to enlarge the bloc remained far from united on Friday about the future shape of the union, set to grow to 27 members when Bulgaria and Romania join on January 1.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (12/10/04) - US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld began a two-day visit to Romania on Tuesday, ahead of an informal NATO meeting at the central Romania mountain resort town of Poiana Brasov.
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STRASBOURG, France -- The European Commission recommended Tuesday that Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union next year _ but under some of the harshest terms ever faced by new members.
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Hoping to end persistent skirmishing, peacekeepers moved into areas near South Ossetia&#39;s capital to separate Georgian troops and fighters from the breakaway region, officials said Friday.
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EU entry seems destined to change Romania's small-scale farming methods - and its landscape.
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While Bulgaria and Romania were celebrating the European Union's decision to grant them membership next year, other EU hopefuls, including Croatia and Turkey, look likely to suffer from the bloc's growing enlargement fatigue, analysts said.
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Security has been stepped up in the border town of Bukavu after Rwanda and Burundi said they could send troops into Democratic Republic of Congo.
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STRASBOURG, France  - Bulgaria and Romania   received the green light on Tuesday to join the European Union   in January, rather than a year later, but under the toughest   terms imposed on any new entrants.
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UNITED NATIONS, Dec 4: Although UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan received unqualified support from most of the 191 member states of the United Nations, UN officials and diplomats fear that
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A U.N. cease-fire resolution has authorized up to 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers. Contributions from European countries so far have been limited: