EU ready to re-engage with Syria: Ireland
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The European Union plans to restart  high-level contacts with Syria by sending foreign policy chief  Javier Solana to Damascus for talks on Lebanon and the Middle  East, Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern said on Friday.
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Iran and Syria, both locked in rows with the United States, said on Wednesday they will form a common front to face challenges and threats.
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The Irish foreign minister said Tuesday he expects Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army-linked party, to help run future governments in both parts of Ireland &#151; but only after the IRA disappears.
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Northern Irelandâs MPs and MEPs are to be given the chance to take part in debates in the Irish Republicâs Parliament if a comprehensive peace process deal is struck in the coming week, it was claimed today.
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The European Union will resume partnership talks with Serbia, probably this month, after a Bosnian Serb general accused of genocide in the 1992-95 Bosnia war was delivered to the war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
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EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana described talks here Saturday with Iran&#39;s nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani as &quot;very constructive,&quot; adding that they would meet again next month.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan will use a visit to Ireland this week to promote plans for emergency military intervention by EU battlegroups on behalf of the United Nations in crisis situations, the Irish Times reported on Monday.
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The two governments are preparing to put their proposals aimed at breaking the political stalemate in Northern Ireland to the DUP and Sinn Fein.
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After Serbia helped arrest a key war-crimes fugitive last week, the EU has promised to resume integration talks.
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The European Union will resume talks with Serbia on closer ties next week after Belgrade boosted cooperation with the U.N. war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the EU's executive said on Thursday.
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The government is expected to signal it is ready to recognise the Ulster Defence Association ceasefire.
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The Irish Republican Army has reopened negotiations with Northern Ireland's disarmament chief, the outlawed group said Tuesday, signaling its readiness to put more weapons out of commission for the first time in over a year.
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LONDON, Dec 1 (IranMnaia) - EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Tuesday Iran&#39;s promise to suspend uranium enrichment activities can open a &quot;new chapter&quot; in bilateral ties, confirming that the EU will resume trade talks with Tehran.
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The European Union wants to sign a trade and aid pact to ease Syria&#39;s diplomatic isolation, but only on condition it agrees to renounce weapons of mass destruction, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said yesterday.
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Italy's prime minister said Saturday that Syrian President Bashar Assad has agreed to the deployment of European Union personnel along Lebanon's border with Syria.
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The European Union on Monday resumed aid to the Palestinian finance ministry for the first time since the West launched an economic boycott of the government more than a year ago.
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Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said on Thursday Syria and Iran had to cooperate for the sake of peace in the Middle East and in the face of pressure from the United States.