Disagreement Hampers Efforts to Define New Status for Caspian Sea - Diplomat
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MOSCOW. Feb 5 (Interfax) - The unilateral steps of certain Caspian nations are hampering efforts to define a new status for the Caspian Sea, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador Alexander Golovin told Interfax on Monday.
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Russia says Iran must do more to dispel international concerns about its nuclear programme.
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The Security Council finds itself having to grapple simultaneously with two threats to the spread of weapons of mass destruction &amp;#151; Iran&#039;s refusal to stop enriching uranium and North Korea&#039;s nuclear arms program and missile tests.
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VENICE, Dec 10 (IPS) - It&#39s about the oldest dispute around, which is  good enough reason to hear more on it from those who can  influence a possible resolution. So when Abdelwahab Derbal, head  of the mission in Brussels of the League of Arab States speaks of  his anger over the Palestine issue, these may be words to listen  to, whichever side of the divide (if any) you are on.
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Text of report by Iranian radio from Gorgan on 7 September  Senior Kazakh officials are declaring the plans of expanding the development of offshore oilfields in the Caspian.
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A senior U.S. envoy on Monday welcomed progress at talks meant to defuse a standoff over Iran's nuclear defiance, but said the U.N. Security Council still intends to "move forward" toward sanctions if Tehran refuses to freeze uranium enrichment.
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Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Chairman Aladdin Borujerdi said on Monday that the European Union should understand that it can not talk to Iran with the language of force or threaten to ...
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Text of report in English by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS  Omsk, 28 May: Fish poaching in the Caspian border zone has reached its critical peak, Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev stated here on Monday after the end of Russian-Kazakh conference on border zone cooperation.
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TEHRAN (International Herald Tribune) - President Vladimir Putin of Russia told a meeting of five Caspian Sea nations in Iran on Tuesday that any use of military force in the region was unacceptable and in a declaration the countries agreed that none of them would allow their territories to be used as a base for launching military strikes against any of the others. Putin's comments and the declaration came at a time when France and the United States have refused to rule out military action to halt Iran's nuclear energy program, which they believe masks a desire to develop nuclear weapons. Iran says its program is solely for peaceful purposes.
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Iran said Saturday it still wanted to revise a nuclear agreement with the EU, contradicting Western diplomats who said Tehran had dropped demands for a partial exemption to allay fears it is seeking nuclear arms.
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The wildlife protection arm of the United Nations announced Friday that it would allow Caspian Sea countries to export caviar, though at lower levels than in 2003.
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VIENNA -- Iran failed yesterday to give a definitive answer to an EU demand that it freeze sensitive nuclear activities or face referral to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions, a diplomat familiar with the talks said.
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Sanctions are not the best way to   resolve international disputes, Interfax news agency quoted   Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on Friday in a   clear reference to Iran.
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Russia's foreign minister cast new doubt   on whether the U.N. Security Council can reach a quick   consensus on punitive measures against Iran over its nuclear   program when he called sanctions a "dead end" on Friday.
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Most members of the U.N. nuclear   watchdog's governing board, a barometer of world sentiment on   Iran, are likely in a pending debate to champion last-gasp   talks to defuse a stand-off over Iran's atomic work, diplomats   say.
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&quot;Our goal remains a new agreement benefitial to both sides,&quot; says a senior official from Trade Representative Robert Zoellick&#39;s office -- dismissing suggestions that the US action against the
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Commenting on the remarks that &quot;the two sides across the Taiwan Straits will finally unite&quot; and &quot;Taiwan doesn&#39;t enjoy the sovereignty of a state&quot; made by US Secretary of State Colin Powell during his visit to Beijing on October 24 and 25, experts on the