Key Mideast players to meet at U.N.
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The United Nations was bringing key Mideast players together Thursday for a series of meetings over the escalating hostilities between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas.
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The Mideast peace process was taking the spotlight at the United Nations on Wednesday, with ministers from the Quartet that drafted the stalled "road map" peace plan &#151; the United States, the U.N., the European Union and Russia &#151; planning to meet.
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All issues are on the table when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meets Palestinian and Israeli leaders next week, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
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US president to call for international peace conference including Israeli and Arab representatives.
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The Quartet of Mideast peacemakers meets Tuesday to assess the Israeli-Palestinian situation for the first time since Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip, and there were indications the envoys also would discuss making Tony Blair the group's chief envoy.
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Israelis, Americans, Arabs and dignitaries from around the world have been welcome in this "city of peace" that will host Tuesday's Mideast summit. One man, however, had been kept at a distance until now: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, on   a whirlwind peace drive in the Middle East, was set to meet   President Bashar al-Assad on Friday to seek Syria's help in   shoring up a truce between Israel and Lebanon's Hizbollah.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan makes his first visit to Washington next week since calls  for his resignation, meeting Secretary of State Colin Powell  and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to talk about  Iraq, U.N. officials said on Friday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel will hold their first summit early next month, in what would be the highest-level contacts between the two sides in more than 18 months.
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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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UNITED NATIONS AP) &#151; The key international Mideast mediators will confer with former British prime minister Tony Blair for the first time next week in his new role promoting peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the U.N. said Friday.
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Countries that could contribute to an expanded U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon were to meet Thursday to find out how the troops will operate, and U.N. officials hoped many would commit soldiers to the force.
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World leaders prepare to meet at the UN in New York to discuss ways of alleviating hunger and poverty.
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Letting Arab leaders figure out what to do about Hezbollah's weapons and assembling a strong international peacekeeping force along Israel's border are among proposals to be discussed at a meeting of key Mideast players in Rome on Wednesday.
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The US secretary of state is due to meet Palestinian and Israeli leaders as part of a new diplomatic effort.
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Kofi Annan is to meet Iran's president and supreme leader for talks likely to cover Iran's nuclear programme.
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Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Tuesday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert were making preparations to hold a meeting.