Powell has dinner chat with Iranian minister
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seated alongside his Iranian counterpart in the most extensive, high-level contact between the countries in years. relations but occasionally over the past few years their senior envoys have crossed paths at international meetings.
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Iranian nuclear officials and a visiting team from the U.N. nuclear watchdog held talks on Monday to clarify outstanding questions about Iran's atomic work, which the West fears is a cover to build a nuclear bomb.
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Iran's foreign minister indicated Monday his country would take part in the international conference on Iraq on Saturday, which would be the first public U.S.-Iranian encounter in nearly three years.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell and his Chinese counterpart, Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, Thursday held what Mr. Powell termed a candid meeting at the State Department.
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Iran&#039;s disputed nuclear program was on the agenda as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and foreign ministers from the world&#039;s largest industrial democracies met in run-up to Russia&#039;s debut as host to leaders of the Group of Eight nations next month.
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The United States would deal with Iran as part of a group of Iraq's neighbors that will meet in Egypt this month, although Washington has no diplomatic relations with Tehran, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell met Monday with China&#39;s foreign minister and the two countries&#39; delegates to six-nation talks on North Korea&#39;s nuclear program during a visit that also was expected to include discussions on Taiwan.
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A senior Iranian official said that progress had been made during talks in Paris aimed at averting a crisis over the Islamic republic's controversial nuclear program.
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Iran will "review with a positive point of view" an Iraqi request for a new round of Iranian-American talks, but only after the United States responds to the invitation, the Islamic republic's foreign minister said Wednesday.
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As I sat down recently with a senior Iranian government official, he urgently waved a column by Thomas Friedman of The New York Times in my face, one about how the United States and Iran need to engage each other.
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A high-ranking U.S. Treasury Department official met Iranian representatives last month in Paris as part of a multinational gathering to discuss "terror financing," a senior U.S. official said on Friday.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell on Monday said he had spoken to both Indian Foreign Minister K Natwar Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri late last week before the two met in New Delhi this week for talks.
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By Saul Hudson MANAUS, Brazil  - The United States has seeninformation suggesting Iran is working on the technology todeliver a nuclear warhead on a missile, Secretary of StateColin Powell said on Wednesday.
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Outgoing Secretary of State Colin Powell signaled on Tuesday Washington was open to one day re-establishing diplomatic ties with Iran after the countries held their most sustained, high-level contact in years.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt  - Outgoing Secretary of  State Colin Powell signaled on Tuesday Washington was open to  one day re-establishing diplomatic ties with Iran after the  countries held their most sustained, high-level contact in  years.
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In a sign of warming U.S.-Libyan ties, Secretary of State Colin Powell will meet Libya's foreign minister on Thursday in the highest level talks between the countries in decades, U.S. officials said.
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has sought out former Secretary of State Colin Powell for advice on foreign policy matters.