GCC annual meet begins amid growing intra-Gulf differences
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Manama (Bahrain), Dec 20 (PTI) Six Gulf countries began their annual summit here today amid growing differences on free trade deals with the US resulting in Saudi Arabia&#39;s Crown Prince opting out of the meet which is expected to discuss means to tackle
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World leaders gathered in Egypt for an international conference on Iraq focused on another Mideast issue early Tuesday the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians.
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WASHINGTON - Finance officials failed to resolve their differences over debt relief for the world's poorest countries and Iraq while expressing concern about the impact high oil prices would have on a strengthening global economy.    The ministers and central bank governors attended weekend steering committee meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank before heading into a session involving all 184 member nations of the two lending organizations on Sunday, the final day of talks...
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PARIS, Nov 22 (IPS) - The differences between France and Iraq entered a  new phase at the summit that began at the Egyptian resort Sharm  el-Sheikh Monday.
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Representatives of two dozen nations and international organizations attending a conference on the future of Iraq pressed the country&#39;s interim government
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Pro-Western Gulf Arab states meeting for a summit in Bahrain hope that Iraq's elections will produce a broad-based government, their host said Monday.
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An international conference aimed at supporting the Iraqi political process begins in Egypt.
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As leaders of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain began a summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Manama, Bahrain, with calls for unity, they gave no indication of backing away from their conflicting views on trade with the United States.
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By Nancy Oteifa, Kuwait Times  Dec. 13--KUWAIT -- The Minister of Finance Bader Al-Humaidhi noted that "the production of petrochemicals in the GCC countries increased from 18 million tonnes in 1997 to 38 million tonnes in 2004.
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Leaders from the United Nations&#39; 191 member states gathered in New York for the beginning of the annual General Debate. Secretary-General Kofi Annan opened the assembly by depicting a bleak world.
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GCC members have decided to regulate all trade deals their countries forge with a third party, following the dispute between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain on the issue, a minister who attended the GCC meetings said.
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Delegates from the around the world will spend four days discussing ways to combat terrorism at a conference hosted by a country some in the West blame for exporting terrorism, even as Saudi Arabia sees itself as the victim of such violence.
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CAIRO -- The Iraqi government and Arab countries have broken into bitter squabbling ahead of a Baghdad conference tomorrow that the United States had hoped would finally unite them in efforts to stabilize the war-torn nation.
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World leaders, tearing up a carefully prepared agenda for their annual summit, turned their attention to a growing crisis in the Middle East that has highlighted the differences between President Bush and major U.S. allies.
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Iraq News, The two-day conference in the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh will start with a meeting of the foreign ministers of Iraq, its six neighbours and Egypt.
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A conference on regional security  threats opened in Bahrain on Friday, in a rare gathering of  senior officials and strategists from Gulf Arab states as well  as Iran, Iraq and the United States.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt : An international conference on the future of Iraq opened for two days of talks that will bring the United States to the same table as some of its fiercest anti-war critics.