GCC states look forward to reforms, says Hamad
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MANAMA âThe Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states are continuing their gradual development approach, which emanates from their will to have further reforms that the people of the region are looking forward to, in order to strengthen relations in âour
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The American Secretary of State, Colin Powell, says, Middle Eastern economic and political reform will help defeat terrorism. With continued violence in US-occupied Iraq and the Palestinian question unresolved
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Three Gulf countries -- the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait and Saudi Arabia -- promised Sunday to increase their oil output capacity to help stabilize world prices, the official WAM news agency reported.
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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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The Moroccan health minister Yasmina Baddou unveiled Monday a string of reforms aimed at improving hospital management, utilising cheaper medicines and reducing infant and maternal mortality rates.
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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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Hamas' Ismail Haniya says he hopes talks in Mecca with the rival Fatah faction will lead to a unity government.
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Sunni-led Gulf Arab states, worried by rising Shi'ite power in Iraq, urged the United States on Tuesday to ensure all religious and ethnic groups take part in next month's elections, which Shi'ites look poised to win.
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GCC states must stand together, particularly with the world as it is today, Saudi Arabia declared in Bahrain yesterday. They must take a unified stand on a number of vital issues, said
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says the organization is in need of reform, but remains the international community&#39;s best hope for facing global threats and challenges.
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Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) industrial nations and about 20 Arab countries across North Africaand the Middle East are scheduled to meet on Saturday here to discuss reforms
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MANAMA, Bahrain -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak engaged Persian Gulf leaders yesterday in an effort to build momentum toward peace in the Middle East, calling for support of the new Palestinian leadership and talking up the prospects of an Israeli-Palestinian settlement.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell says he hopes to meet Palestinian leaders soon as part of a harder US push for peace in the region following the death of President Yasser Arafat.
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Israel will respond with a series of positive gestures if the successors to Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat will implement security reforms and a &quot;real&quot; cease-fire felt on the ground in the territories, Israeli security and diplomatic sources
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BAGHDAD, 23 November 2004 - Some Arab delegations at a meeting in Sharm El-Sheikh, with counterparts from Iraqâs neighbors and the United States among others, yesterday said it may be better to delay the polls in Iraq to ensure full participation.
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, with a fresh election triumph under his belt, said he would press on with reforms to turn his secular, Muslim country into a modern democracy on a par with its European neighbors.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plans to host a meeting Friday so the Iraqi government can brief U.N. member states on a five-year plan to ensure the government has funds to survive and enact key political and economic reforms.