N.Korean, Syrian officials hold talks
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A high-level North Korean official held talks in Damascus on Saturday with senior officials of Syria's ruling Baath Party on ways to develop relations between the two countries, Syria's official news agency reported.
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N Korea is expected to ask the South to resume aid shipments, when officials from the two sides meet later.
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North and South Korea are restoring ties during talks this week following the communist country's pledge to shut down its nuclear reactor
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The leaders of Egypt and Syria met on ways to bring Damascus and Israel back to the negotiating table four years after talks broke off in acrimony over the fate of the strategic Golan Heights.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell met Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Shara Wednesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
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North Korean and US officials met this week to discuss the nuclear standoff on the Korean Peninsula. It appears they came no closer to resuming multilateral talks on ending Pyongyang&#39;s nuclear weapons programs.
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Senior Chinese and South Korean officials have met in an effort to restart stalled talks on North Korean nuclear disarmament amid signs of US impatience with the diplomatic process.
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A senior U.S. diplomat held talks on Monday with a Syrian official on how Damascus was coping with a flood of Iraqi refugees, the first such talks in the Syrian capital for more than two years.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan met Friday with the Syrian president to seek his support for carrying out a resolution that halted the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas in neighboring Lebanon.
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North Korean and U.S. officials met this  week in New York but made no progress on restarting six-party  talks on the North's nuclear programs, a North Korean Foreign  Ministry spokesman said on Saturday.
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Military officers from Seoul and Pyongyang met Thursday to discuss rail and road links through the Demilitarised Zone, ending a three-month break in two-way talks, but North Korea dodged making any clear pledge over key issues, the South Korean defense ministry said.
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DAMASCUS - Syrian President Bashar Assad met on Monday with a senior Palestinian delegation to discuss ways of mending relations between Syria and the Palestinian leadership after long differences triggered by the Palestinian-Israeli Oslo accords.
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U.S. and North Korean officials  started talks on Monday aimed at eventually normalizing  diplomatic ties as part of an agreement under which Pyongyang  has pledged to scrap its nuclear arms programs in exchange for  aid.
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Palestinian leaders visit Damascus for landmark talks with the Syrian and Hamas leadership.
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U.S. and North Korean officials started talks on Monday aimed at eventually normalizing diplomatic ties as part of an agreement under which Pyongyang has pledged to scrap its nuclear arms programs in exchange for aid.
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A top U.S. non-proliferation official said that North Korea may be aiding Syria in a covert nuclear program.
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SEOUL South Korean officials expressed hope Thursday that North Korea would return to six-party talks designed to resolve the country&#39;s nuclear weapons issues.