France, Belgium delay NATO Iraq agreement
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France and Belgium, two of the most vocal critics of the US war in Iraq, would not agree Friday to a planned expansion of NATO&#39;s military training mission in Iraq, but
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The French and German leaders avoid setting a deadline for Turkey to comply with EU demands.
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Visiting French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said Friday that France is prepared to collaborate in the reconstruction of Iraq, but that country must advance towards the "political" solution of its ...
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France and Belgium, two of the most vocal critics of the U.S. war in Iraq, would not agree Friday to a planned expansion of NATO's military training mission in Iraq, but officials were confident a deal could be reached within days.
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Agreement on expanding a NATO training mission in Iraq remained blocked with several countries still expressing reservations, NATO chief Jaap de Hoop Scheffer revealed.
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The handover of control of Iraqi armed forces from the US-led coalition to the defence ministry is postponed again.
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The European Union's enlargement chief  said the planned signing of a political agreement with Serbia  on Thursday would be delayed amid a deep rift in the Belgrade  coalition over the accord.
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NATO allies agreed Wednesday to expand the alliance's training mission for Iraqi armed forces after allaying French concerns which had delayed the plans for a week.
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The release of two French journalists  held in Iraq since August was delayed Friday when a group of  Iraqis transporting them was bombarded by U.S. forces, an aide  to a French MP aiming to help free them said.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium - NATO allies agreed Wednesday on plans to send hundreds of instructors to run a training center for Iraq's armed forces after easing French concerns that had delayed a deal for a week.   "We are very pleased that this step has now been taken," said NATO spokesman James Appathurai...
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France, Belgium and Poland pledged Friday to fill the gaps in a European peacekeeping force for Chad and the Central African Republic, setting the delayed mission on track to be deployed next month.
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Unexpected difficulties appeared to have stalled the hoped-for release of two French journalists in Iraq, with a girlfriend of one of the hostages blaming the precarious security situation for the delay.
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SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt -- Leaders meeting on Iraq's future plan to give strong backing to the interim government's war against insurgents but won't set a deadline for withdrawing US-led forces, despite a push by France and some Arab countries.
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NATO foreign ministers pledged Thursday to speed the expansion of alliance peacekeeping in Afghanistan and boost military training for Iraq, but failed to come up immediately with the troops for both operations.
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The U.S. military is delaying the   departure of thousands of soldiers from Iraq while speeding the   arrival of thousands more as a way to keep more troops on the   ground to handle unrelenting violence, the Pentagon said on   Monday.
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Unexpected difficulties have apparently impeded the hoped-for release of two French journalists being held captive in Iraq. The staging of a joint Iraqi-US counter insurgency raid in Latifiya, southern Iraq
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The United States and Iraq were at odds   on Saturday over the transfer of operational control of Iraq's   military to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government, forcing   a delay of a handover ceremony.