US urges new UN envoy for Cyprus talks
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Washington has urged the United Nations to send a new special envoy to Cyprus to focus on peace talks on the divided Mediterranean island, a high-ranking US diplomat said.
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The United States wants the U.N.   Security Council to take up the issue of Iran's nuclear   programme and draft a resolution setting out sanctions after   more talks between world powers next week, U.S. Undersecretary   of State Nicholas Burns said on Friday.
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A US envoy on Thursday arrived in North Korea for a new round of talks in breaking a deadlock over a nuclear disarmament deal, a report said.
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The U.S. military attache in Cyprus was found dead on Monday in a remote mountainous region of the Mediterranean island, four days after disappearing, the American embassy said.
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The U.S. defense attache in Cyprus was found dead in a remote rural area of the Mediterranean island Monday, four days after he disappeared with his diplomatic car. An official indicated that he committed suicide.
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NICOSIA -- The US defense attach&#xE9; in Cyprus was found dead in a remote rural area of the Mediterranean island yesterday, four days after he disappeared with his diplomatic car. An official indicated that he committed suicide. A Cypriot official involved in the autopsy, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said, ...
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A senior U.S. diplomat urged Lebanese legislators to elect a new president during Monday's parliamentary session, as increasing tensions between the majority and the opposition made a vote highly unlikely.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  has approved a start to diplomatic talks with the Palestinians  in response to a lull in militant attacks secured by their new  leader Mahmoud Abbas, officials said on Wednesday. The decision  came hours before senior U.S. diplomat William Burns was to  arrive on a fresh White House mission to revive a "road map"  peace plan envisaging a Palestinian state in the West Bank and  Gaza Strip co-existing with a secure Israel.
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US secretary of state Colin Powell is holding talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders today, in a bid to revive Middle East diplomacy after the death of Yasser Arafat.
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A US envoy  holds further talks with political leaders in Lebanon trying to bring an end to the presidential crisis.
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Syria calls for a "serious dialogue" with the US as the most senior US official in two years visits Damascus.
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The top American diplomat in Jerusalem said Monday that the Bush administration is seeking $400 million in new aid for the Palestinian Authority.
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The Bush administration has begun quietly urging Arab countries to help overcome Sudan's resistance to deploying 20,000 U.N. peacekeepers and police to the troubled Darfur region, the new U.S. special envoy for Sudan said Wednesday
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10 December 2004 - One day after the United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Danforth gave his full backing to Secretary-General Kofi Annan - who had heard calls for his resignation from certain quarters in that country - a UN spokesman
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The United States is sending an observer delegation to a Palestinian presidential election set for January 9, the State Department said.
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US special envoy to Sudan Andrew Natsios arrived in Khartoum to try to persuade Sudanese officials to accept a joint United Nations/African Union peace force in Darfur where the UN says hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, raped or displaced.
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The United States is pressing, along with France and other UN Security Council members, for a resolution upholding Lebanon&#39;s sovereignty in the face of Syrian pressure to keep a political ally, Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, in office.