Australia&#39;s Downer Calls on North Korea to Attend Nuclear Talks
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Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said he used his visit to North Korea to call on the communist country to attend the next round of six-nation talks on dismantling its nuclear program.
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North Korea's representative at talks on its nuclear programme says it should be given light-water reactors.
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Australia's foreign minister is in North Korea, urging the Stalinist state to renounce nuclear weapons.
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Prime Minister John Howard has been accused of turning his back on Asia, kowtowing to America and being Australia&#39;s most boring leader.
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Asia-Pacific leaders meet in Australia to discuss how to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of extremists.
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HAMISH ROBERTSON: The Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, sparked quite an argument last week with his comments in Beijing about whether Australia would side with the United States in any war over Taiwan.
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Australia's Foreign Minister Alexander Downer on Thursday urged wanted East Timorese rebel leader Major Alfredo Reinado, surrounded by Canberra-led troops, to surrender.
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Australia&#39;s foreign minister is in North Korea, urging the Stalinist state to renounce nuclear weapons.
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Australia will send a diplomatic mission to North Korea in the next few weeks to begin rebuilding ties following the landmark deal that secured a promise Pyongyang would end its nuclear programs, the prime minister said Tuesday.
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Australia wants to strengthen relations with its northern neighbour, Indonesia, and is not a deputy sheriff for the United States in the Asia-Pacific, Prime Minister John Howard said on Tuesday before leaving for Jakarta.
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Australia may have "innocently" exported nuclear technology to parties with weapons of mass destruction programs, Defence Minister Robert Hill said on the sidelines of an anti-proliferation forum.
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SEOUL -- North Korea urged its impoverished people yesterday to rally around Stalinist leader Kim Jong Il, after Washington rebuffed the communist North's demand that the two sides hold bilateral talks to curb nuclear tension.
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Minister of Foreign Affairs Mark Chen () yesterday condemned as &quot;nonsense&#39; a warning by his Australian counterpart that Taiwan should refrain from provoking China in any way, saying that Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer failure to ask ...
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SYDNEY, Aug 20  - Australia on Friday played down a diplomatic row sparked by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, who said Australia would not be obliged to help its key ally, the United States, if Taiwan were attacked by China.
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PRIME Minister Mr John Howard was yesterday forced to defend Mr Alexander Downer in relation to the Foreign Ministers comments that Australia was not bound to help the US defend Taiwan.
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Australia&#39;s Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, says members of a logistics team are heading to Iraq, in case any Australians have been taken hostage.
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North Korea was reluctant to accept a United States plan to give up its nuclear program but would probably attend the next round of talks on the impasse, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said after a brief visit to Pyongyang.