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- Abbas, Olmert hold new round of Mideast peace talks
- JERUSALEM AFP — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas Sunday for US-backed peace talks in what could be their last meeting before Olmert steps down over a graft scandal. "The objective remains to press ahead with the process begun at the Annapolis conference in the...
- Research articles 2008-08-31
- Rice pushes Israeli-Palestinian peace despite mounting odds
- WASHINGTON AFP — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice left Sunday for the Middle East in a new bid to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal by January 2009 despite mounting odds. In her seventh visit to the region since the Annapolis peace process was launched in November last year,...
- Research articles 2008-08-24
- Iraq-US pact puts troop pullout by 2011: negotiator
- BAGHDAD, AFP — Negotiators have finalised a deal which will see the complete withdrawal of US troops from Iraq by 2011, ending an eight-year occupation, the top official in the Iraqi team told AFP. Under the 27-point deal all American combat troops will be withdrawn from Iraqi cities by...
- Research articles 2008-08-22
- Rice to visit Mideast later this month: Palestinians
- JERUSALEM AFP — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to visit Israel and the Palestinian territories later this month to spur Middle East peace talks, a senior Palestinian negotiator said Sunday. Rice is to meet with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on August 25 before holding three-way talks with...
- Research articles 2008-08-17
- Zimbabwe talks set to resume Sunday: Mbeki
- HARARE AFP — Power-sharing talks between Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF and opposition MDC are set to resume Sunday, South African President Thabo Mbeki said after meeting President Robert Mugabe. "The talks are progressing. They the negotiators want to resume on Sunday," Mbeki, who is mediating the talks at a secret...
- Research articles 2008-07-30
- No 'shortcuts' in Mideast peace deal: Palestinian negotiator
- WASHINGTON AFP — The United States, Israel and the Palestinians agreed in talks Wednesday to strive for a comprehensive Middle East peace deal without any "shortcuts," Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said. "We will not opt for an option of partial agreements, shortcuts or anything short of a full agreement...
- Research articles 2008-07-30
- US set for three-way talks in quest for Middle East peace deal
- WASHINGTON AFP — The United States was set Wednesday for three-way peace talks with top Israeli and Palestinian negotiators amid pessimism President George W. Bush can bag a comprehensive Middle East peace deal before he leaves office in January. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet Israeli Foreign...
- Research articles 2008-07-30
- Key players look to bolster consensus at world trade talks
- GENEVA AFP — Top negotiators prepared Sunday to try to firm up emerging signs of consensus on a new global trade pact, with signs that marathon talks here will spill into another week. Key players in the delicate negotiations were buoyed Saturday by broadly positive talks on the services...
- Research articles 2008-07-27
- WTO scrambles for fresh options on trade pact
- GENEVA, AFP — Top negotiators prepared to turn to fresh proposals Monday in a bid to nail a new global trade free trade pact despite growing discord and warnings that years of painstaking negotiations could unravel at the last minute. Squabbles among emerging economies threatened to shatter fragile gains...
- Research articles 2008-07-27
- WTO talks face collapse
- GENEVA AFP — WTO head Pascal Lamy warned on Friday that talks on a global free-trade pact faced collapse as leading nations searched here for a way to break a seven-year log jam. "We need to change gears very quickly to turn things around," Lamy was quoted as saying...
- Research articles 2008-07-25
- Breakthrough hopes breathe life into WTO talks
- GENEVA AFP — World trade powers strode forward towards a new global pact on Friday amid real hopes of a breakthrough after seven years of deadlock, but several emerging nations threatened to torpedo a deal. Key negotiators said most of the 35 key trading nations meeting here have bridged...
- Research articles 2008-07-25
- WTO talks reach make-or-break point
- GENEVA AFP — Crucial World Trade Organisation talks entered make-or-break mode Friday as negotiators struggled to avert the collapse of the seven-year attempt to broker a global free-trade pact. Beginning a fifth and planned final day of meetings, diplomats and negotiators admitted that little progress has been made so...
- Research articles 2008-07-25
- Zimbabwe crisis talks begin in South Africa
- PRETORIA AFP — Talks began in earnest Thursday on resolving Zimbabwe's political crisis after President Robert Mugabe gave his senior lieutenants the final go-ahead to negotiate power-sharing with the opposition. A spokesman for South African President Thabo Mbeki, the chief mediator between the two sides, confirmed the ruling ZANU-PF...
- Research articles 2008-07-24
- Israeli defence minister to meet Palestinian leader
- JERUSALEM AFP — Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak is due to meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Tuesday in Greece, a statement from his office said. The meeting in the Greek capital, Athens, will be held on the sidelines of a meeting of Socialist International, the statement said. ...
- Research articles 2008-06-30
- Israeli, Palestinian negotiators to meet in Berlin
- RAMALLAH, West Bank AFP — The heads of the Israeli and Palestinian negotiating teams as well as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will hold talks on the sideline of a Berlin conference this week, a Palestinian official said on Tuesday. Wednesday's meeting will focus on efforts to reach...
- Research articles 2008-06-23
- Rice to attend Israeli-Palestinian talks: negotiator
- RAMALLAH, West Bank AFP — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is scheduled to attend Israel-Palestinian peace talks over the weekend, Saeb Erakat, one of the Palestinian negotiators, said on Monday. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qorei will sit down with Rice in Jerusalem on...
- Research articles 2008-06-09
- Israel, Palestinians to pen draft agreement
- RAMALLAH, West Bank AFP — Top Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qorei said Saturday Palestinian and Israeli negotiators would begin preparing a document outlining progress in US-backed peace negotiations. Qorei in an interview with two Palestinian newspapers published Saturday said the two sides were discussing all the core issues of the...
- Research articles 2008-06-07
- Drafting to start on Mideast peace deal
- RAMALLAH, West Bank AFP — Top Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qorei said Palestinian and Israeli negotiators are to start drafting a document, in remarks published Saturday on progress in US-backed peace talks. In an interview with two Palestinian newspapers, Qorei said the two sides were discussing all the core issues...
- Research articles 2008-06-07
- EU urges concessions from emerging nations in WTO talks
- BRUSSELS AFP — EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson urged developing countries on Tuesday to yield ground in crunch World Trade Organisation negotiations. "The emerging economies must now engage in a serious negotiation," Mandelson told the European Parliament's foreign trade panel. Last week, the WTO submitted new proposals on...
- Research articles 2008-05-27
- Iran conservatives tap ex-nuclear chief as speaker
- TEHRAN AFP — The conservative bloc dominating Iran's new parliament has chosen former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani as its candidate for speaker, the state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday. IRNA said conservatives MPs parliament chose Larijani by 161 votes against 50 for the incumbent Gholam Ali Hadad Adel,...
- Research articles 2008-05-25
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