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US Middle East envoy William Burns paved the way yesterday for
President George W Bush's first hand-on foray into Arab-Israeli
peacemaking, at upcoming summits in Egypt and Jordan.
African leaders meeting in Abuja yesterday chose six eminent
figures as the first members of a "peer review" body designed to
monitor the performance of the continent's governments.
Tensions between US-led occupation authorities and Iraq's residents
came to the fore yesterday as the government in the country's
second-largest city was dismissed amid rising popular discontent.
Israel's qualified acceptance of a US inspired "roadmap" for peace
with the Palestinians has boosted the chances of President George W
Bush holding a peace summit in the region.
US President George W Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin
vowed to strengthen their strategic partnership in telephone talks
yesterday, the Kremlin said, despite lingering differences over
Iraq.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell said in an interview today that
the future Iraqi administration would "take fully into account" its
eight-billion dollar debt obligations to Russia.
With the Iraq war moving from battlefield to negotiating table, the
UN Security Council met Friday for initial discussion of a draft
resolution which would lift sanctions against Iraq.
One month after US Marines helped jubilant Iraqis pull down a huge
statue of Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad, the US was to put a
resolution Friday to the UN Security Council seeking an end to...