Reform needed in Arab world to defeat terrorism: Powell
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RABAT: US Secretary of State Colin Powell stressed on Saturday the need for economic and political reforms in the Arab world to defeat terrorism.
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Senior Arab officials attending a U.S.-sponsored conference to promote democracy in the Middle East emphatically rejected on Saturday the Bush administration's assertion that greater democracy in the region would help end terrorism. They argued that the administration's strong support of Israel made it difficult to undertake political reform or to stop extremists driven by hatred of U.S. policies.
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RABAT, Morocco _ A high-profile effort by the Bush administration to spark reform across the Middle East was greeted with skepticism here Saturday as Arab leaders, including close US allies, questioned
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The secretary of state urged Europe to put aside past differences and work with the U.S. to expand freedom in the Arab world.
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Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell came out in opposition today to White House-sponsored legislation to create special military commissions that would try terrorist suspects, saying he rejects efforts to "redefine" a key provision of the Geneva Conventions.
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Developing nations launched their annual diplomatic summit on Tuesday with a plea to the United States and other powerful countries to consult them on tackling terror and resolving the Middle East conflict
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Crown Prince Hamzah of Jordan, a key U.S. ally in the war on terror, urged reforms in Muslim thinking and criticized Islamic extremism Saturday, but he said fanaticism results from injustices and oppression being suffered by Muslims
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell appealed to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat on Thursday to step aside for the sake of achieving his lifetime goal of a Palestinian state.
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Muslim countries need to club together in a new initiative to resolve turbulence and violence in the Middle East, the leaders of Indonesia and Pakistan said on Wednesday.
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Syria has shown a new readiness  to work with U.S.-led forces to stop arms, militants and money  from crossing into Iraq and fueling insurgency, Secretary of  State Colin Powell said on Wednesday.
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U.N. human rights chief Louise Arbour on   Friday called on the United States to abolish secret detention   for terrorism suspects, saying transferring 14 of them to   Guantanamo Bay was not enough.
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The Arab world needs a revolutionary vision, like that of Dubai, to achieve lasting peace, security and prosperity in the Middle East, said former US President Bill Clinton.
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WASHINGTON -- In a telecast to the Arab world, Secretary of State Colin Powell called yesterday for an end to the intifadah, the four-year violent Palestinian uprising against Israel.
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Arab countries have formally   asked the U.N. Security Council to acknowledge that efforts to   end the Arab-Israeli conflict have failed and to resuscitate   and reshape the peace process.
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in his  first public comments since bombs killed at least 32 people at  Red Sea resorts, said on Monday the world needed a  U.N.-sponsored conference to deal with international terrorism.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell on  Saturday said Middle Eastern economic and political reform  would help defeat terrorism but many Arabs dismissed his call  and demanded an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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Outgoing Secretary of State Colin  Powell urged Europe on Friday to help heal rifts over Iraq with  the United States instead of relying on the Bush administration  to be the peacemaker.