Tag: Talk

Iran says nuclear fuel swap talk an ‘independent’ issue

TEHRAN: Iran reiterated on Tuesday that the nuclear fuel swap issue was separate from its overall atomic programme for which the six world powers and Tehran are expected to hold talks later this month.
"We have said from the beginning that these two issues are independent from one another," Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told AFP. "The issue of fuel swap is an independent issue and the issue of dialogue with 5+1 is another independent issue.
If the

Bhatt to host Pakistani talk show

LAHORE: If there's a story to tell, not many can add spice to it like veteran director Mahesh Bhatt. So, when he announces plans of penning down experiences from the 40 years he's spent in Indian cinema, we're sure of many skeletons tumbling out of the closet.
And this year sure seems to be giving him a lot to tell with Bhatt becoming the first Indian director to host a Pakistani talk show "Straight Talk with Mahesh Bhatt" soon. Equally excited about this project, that will

More high-level Taliban keen to talk: Holbrooke

WASHINGTON
High-level Taliban leaders are showing interest in talks with the United States-backed government in Kabul in increasing numbers, as pressure mounts from an intensifying NATO military campaign, a US special envoy said on Sunday.
But Richard Holbrooke, the administration's envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, cautioned that the feelers so far add up to "contacts and discussions" rather than peace negotiations to end a war now in its tenth year.
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Israeli minister warns Netanyahu of peace talk failure

PARIS: Israel's Labour Party would walk out of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government if peace talks with the Palestinians do not resume by the end of the year, a senior party figure said.
"We will force the Labour Party to move out," Minorities Affairs Minister Avishay Braverman, who intends to challenge Defence Minister Ehud Barak for Labour's leadership, told Reuters.
"I will do everything I can," he said in an interview at a left-wing think tank in Paris. "I