U.S. wants Chinese banking help over N.Korea: Indonesia
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The United States will seek the help of a Chinese intermediary bank to help arrange the transfer to North Korea of formerly frozen funds in a Macau bank, Indonesia's foreign minister said on Tuesday.
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The top U.S. negotiator on North Korea's nuclear program said Thursday he hopes six nations meeting in China next week will be able to take the first concrete steps toward eventual dismantling of the communist nation's nuclear weapons.
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The United States has stepped up its diplomatic response to Indonesia&#39;s arrest of five executives of the American mining company Newmont for alleged pollution in the province of Sulawesi.
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Indonesia urged Washington on Friday to   provide access to a militant linked to the 2002 Bali bombings   after President Bush said he had been transferred to Guantanamo   Bay.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz flew across the devastated Sumatran coast yesterday and expressed pride in the US aid operation, but said Washington wants to hand over relief work to Indonesia and other affected nations as soon as possible.
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Indonesia's minister of defense called on the United States Sunday to ease its restrictions on military relations between the two nations and to help train the South Asian country's military leaders.
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The United States stressed on Thursday  that it opposes Taiwan plans to hold a referendum on U.N.  membership, while China urged Washington to help oppose the  vote that it calls a dangerous provocation.
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With fresh support from China in hand, US President George W. Bush hopes to minimize public differences with Asian allies over how to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions and come back to the bargaining table.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesia's defense minister urged the United States yesterday to ease restrictions on military relations between the nations and to help train Indonesian military leaders, reaching out during the period of cooperation that has emerged after the devastating tsunami last month.
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China agreed Monday to put pressure on  North Korea to return to six-party talks on its nuclear  programs but told Secretary of State Colin Powell that  Washington needed to be more flexible to resolve the crisis.
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Russia is trying to help North Korea get access to its money held in a Macau bank, a top U.S. diplomat said in an interview released on Friday.
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China urged the Canadian Embassy on Thursday to hand over 44 possible North Korean asylum-seekers, while officials said nine North Koreans who entered an American school in Shanghai had been handed over to Chinese police.
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China promised on Monday to respond  positively to the United States in high-level economic talks  this week but drew a line in the sand by telling Washington  that its exchange rate is a matter of national sovereignty.
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North Korea wants the United States to  free its overseas bank accounts and for countries to drop  sanctions imposed after Pyongyang tested a nuclear weapon,  South Korea's Yonhap news agency on Wednesday quoted its envoy  as saying.
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A senior Chinese central bank official has warned the United States not to blame other countries for its own economic difficulties, a report said.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell sought South Korea's support on Tuesday for a U.S. hard line on North Korea after China said Washington must be more flexible to entice the reclusive state back to nuclear arms talks.
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Russia has accepted a U.S. request that a Russian bank help end a stalemate over frozen North Korean funds that has halted progress in the North's nuclear disarmament, a news report said Sunday.