senior leader Sushma Swaraj today said the lingering crisis in the Karnataka government has been resolved with Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa publicly announcing to forget the bitter past and work in the interest of the party and state. The peace deal hammered out by the national leadership was finally announced in the presence of the Chief Minister and Tourism Minister G Janardhana Reddy at the residence...
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senior leader Sushma Swaraj today said the lingering crisis in the Karnataka government has been resolved with Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa publicly announcing to forget the bitter past and work in the interest of the party and state.The peace deal hammered out by the national leadership was finally announced in the presence of the Chief Minister and Tourism Minister G Janardhana Reddy at the residence...
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Israelipresident Shimon Peres held discussions in Egypt on Sunday on efforts to restart Middle East peace talks after the Egyptian president accused Israel of creating obstacles to a settlement with the Palestinians.Egypt, the first Arab state to sign a peace deal with Israel, has long played a mediation role. That has recently included involvement in a bid to secure an Israeli soldier's release from...
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India!NEPAL: SECURITY COUNCIL STRESSES NEED FOR ALL SIDES TO MAKE COMPROMISES IN PEACE PROCESSNew York-The Security Council today urged Nepal’s new Government and its other major political parties to cooperate in a spirit of compromise to ensure the peace process in the South Asian country continues.In remarks to the press, Ambassador Jorge Urbina of Costa Rica, which holds the rotating Council presidency...
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Southern Sudan leader Salva Kiir has made his strongest call for full independence when the region's status is decided at a referendum due in 2011.He said voting for unity with northern Sudan would make southerners "second class citizens" in their own land.A referendum in the now semi-autonomous oil-rich south was part of the 2005 deal that ended decades of civil war.A BBC correspondent in Sudan says...
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has called for France to play a bigger role in Middle East peace efforts.Mr Assad said the issue would be the focal point of his talks in Paris with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.He said he was disappointed by Barack Obama's record in the region, saying no plan of action had been developed since he took over the White House.The message comes days after Israel's PM...
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Efforts to rescue the sinking Middle East peace process are losing support. Influential US pundits have lost faith. Those Israelis who never did believe in it are saying: we told you so. Some Palestinians believe it is as good as dead, strangled by Israel. They talk gloomily of a moment of truth.Middle East veterans say they have seen such hopeless spells before, and seen them lead to outbreaks of...
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Clinton urges restraint in push for Mideast peace < ');" class="size11 blue"> RateU.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday urged Arabs and Israelis to set aside their historical differences, avoid inflammatory rhetoric and recommit to attaining a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.In a speech at an international forum attended by senior government officials from the Mideast, North...
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has sent a letter to the leader of the main Muslim rebel group in the Philippines, an official of the group said Saturday.The letter to Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chairman Murad Ibrahim was delivered to rebel peace negotiators by Deputy Assistant State Secretary Scot Marciel, according to Muhammad Ameen, chairman of the MILF secretariat.Ameen said Marciel and two other US diplomats met MILF...
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President Barack Obama has sent a letter to the leader of the main Muslim rebel group in the Philippines, a guerrilla official said Saturday.The letter to Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chairman Murad Ibrahim was delivered to rebel peace negotiators by Deputy Assistant State Secretary Scot Marciel, according to Muhammad Ameen, chairman of the MILF secretariat.Ameen said Marciel and two other...
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