Rice to visit new French leaders, discuss Darfur
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit France starting on Sunday to meet new President Nicolas Sarkozy in a trip experts said would signal a recovery in bilateral ties that frayed over the Iraq war.
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France brings the United States, China and some 15 other nations together for a major conference here Monday aimed at launching a new international drive to end atrocities in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region.
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The United States said on Friday it is preparing a new UN resolution on Darfur and that Secretary of State Colin Powell might address next week whether the violence in western Sudan constitutes genocide.
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President Jacques Chirac visits Senegal on Wednesday for the first time in a decade, hoping to boost ties with a former West African colony at a time when the United States is raising its military profile in the region.
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In a diplomatic turnabout, the Bush administration will join an Iraq-sponsored "neighbors meeting" with Iran and Syria, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday.
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said on Monday he planned to make regular visits to the United States as part of a drive led by President Jacques Chirac to improve relations soured by the U.S.-led war in ...
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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner arrived Friday in Chad on the second leg of an African tour aimed at reviewing prospects for aiding victims of the Darfur conflict in neighbouring Sudan.
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New Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet in the  Turkish capital Ankara on Saturday to prepare for a planned  U.S.-Russia summit, diplomats said on Thursday.
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Washington's Sudan envoy Andrew Natsios was expected to arrive in Sudan on Friday for a fresh round of diplomacy aimed at curbing the violence in Darfur, the official SUNA news agency reported.
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A summit intended to strengthen ties between Africa and former colonial power France opened on Thursday but all eyes will be on a subject not on the agenda -- Sudan's battered Darfur province.Comment
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France's foreign minister arrives in Rwanda on a visit aimed at normalising bilateral relations.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday she pressed Sudan's government to accept a U.N. force in the war-torn region of Darfur, warning improved U.S. relations depended on it.
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The Arab League on Tuesday urged Condoleezza Rice to adopt what it called a more evenhanded U.S. policy in the Middle East as the new secretary of state, while France, China and even Sudan expressed hope for ...
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The United States and other nations are prepared to help move an expanded African peacekeeping force into position in Sudan's Darfur region to halt the bloodshed, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday.
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PARIS -- The world has fallen down on the job of ending the violence in Sudan's Darfur region, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday as she welcomed the fresh energy that France's new conservative-led government has put to the cause.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Tuesday he will visit Sudan next week to help create the foundations for lasting peace and test the government's commitment to allow the speedy deployment of a 26,000-strong force in Darfur.
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The United States said on Friday it is preparing a new UN resolution on Darfur and that US Secretary of State Colin Powell might address next week whether the violence in western Sudan constitutes genocide.