Australian foreign minister ends &#39;productive&#39; North Korea talks
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Australia&#39;s foreign minister, Alexander Downer, has wrapped up talks in North Korea on the stand-off over the country&#39;s efforts to develop nuclear weapons.
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Six-nation disarmament talks are due to wrap up on Thursday amid hopes that North Korea will agree to give a full account of all its nuclear weapons programmes and close them by the end of this year.
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Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has offered an up-beat assessment at the end of talks in Pyongyang about the North Korean nuclear crisis.
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The new Australian government will scrap a landmark deal to sell uranium to India for its nuclear energy programme, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith indicated Tuesday.
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SEOUL : South Korea&#39;s foreign minister said Wednesday a visit by North Korea&#39;s second-ranking leader to China was &quot;positive and encouraging&quot; for a resumption of stalled six-nation talks on Pyongyang&#39;s nuclear drive.
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NEW DELHI, Sept 6: The foreign ministers of India and Pakistan ended a landmark meeting here on Monday, agreeing to intensify their search for durable peace in South Asia , and, while they aired
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Countries from China to Germany urged  North Korea on Friday to return to talks on ending its nuclear  programs after the communist state announced it had nuclear  weapons and had pulled out of disarmament discussions.
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Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Saturday ended his maiden visit to China during which he held talks with the leadership here on boosting the &quot;all-weather&quot; bilateral political, military and economic relations.
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A top North Korean official has flagged the resumption of multilateral talks over the country&#39;s efforts to develop nuclear weapons.
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Prime Minister John Howard brushed off criticism of his foreign minister's comment that Australia had no obligation to side with the United States if tensions between China and Taiwan erupted into war.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard has brushed aside fears that a projected joint security declaration with Japan would harm his country's ties with China, press reports said.
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Japan-North Korea talks on normalising ties are cut short for a second day, with no plans for a resumption.
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HANOI, March 8 -- Talks between Japan and North Korea on normalizing relations ended after only 45 minutes Thursday, as their top envoys blamed each other for the lack of agreement on key historical issues.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell ends  his tour of Asia by once again asking North Korea to resume nuclear talks.
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Chief envoys to six-nation talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons programme clinched a deal at the end of marathon negotiations, a South Korean official said.
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By Michael Cavanagh, Channel NewsAsia&#39;s Australia correspondent. CANBERRA: Australian Prime Minister John Howard and his would-be successor have clashed on foreign policy in the build-up to Saturday&#39;s general election.
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North Korea said Monday that it will not resume talks on its nuclear weapons program until the Bush administration ends its "hostile policy" against Pyongyang and South Korea publishes complete details of its secret efforts to produce nuclear-weapons-grade fuel.