Tag: Talks

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama will welcome President Asif Ali Zardari to the White House on Friday for talks on ties between the uneasy war partners, spokesman Robert Gibbs said. President Zardari is scheduled to discuss diplomatic, economic and security issues with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other top US officials today (Friday). He will also attend a memorial service for US special envoy Richard Holbrooke.
Pakistan's Ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani

MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Thursday called for Iran to agree talks to clear up "grey areas" in its contested nuclear programme at a meeting with six world powers in Istanbul this month. In Istanbul, delegates must agree a talks agenda that is "all-inclusive" and covers "the questions of eliminating grey areas in the Iranian nuclear programme," Lavrov said. Iran will meet Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany for the talks on January 21-22.

ISLAMABAD - The third round of Pakistan-Japan consultations on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation issues was held in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Dr Irfan Yusuf Shami, Director General, Disarmament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs was heading the Pakistani delegation, said a foreign office statement issued here.
It said the Pakistani side underscored the need for maintaining strategic and conventional stability in South Asia as well country's desire for non-discriminatory access to

BEIJING - US attempts to shore up rocky military relations with Beijing were overshadowed Tuesday by a test flight of China's stealth fighter jet, reflecting the growing rivalry between the two powers. Chinese state media carried photos purporting to show the maiden flight of the J-20 warplane just as US Defense Secretary Robert Gates met with President Hu Jintao -- who heads to Washington next week -- and other officials.
The timing of the flight appeared to be a snub to

SEOUL - North Korea on Monday officially proposed dialogue with South Korea, less than two months after launching a deadly bombardment of a border island, but a sceptical Seoul quickly rejected the offer.
The South said it was willing to hold government-level talks, but only if the North admits responsibility for a series of provocations and confirms a commitment to scrapping its nuclear programme. The North's official news agency said three state bodies sent notices to the

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan wants to resolve all issues with India through talks but dialogue should be meaningful and result-oriented, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Saturday.
while addressing a joint press conference with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, Qureshi said, "Pakistan has been consistent in its policy that it wants good neighbourly relations with India and resolve all disputes through talks. But we want sustained, meaningful and result-oriented

ISLAMABAD - US Ambassador Cameron Munter on Friday said the US could encourage Pakistan and India to resolve the issue of Kashmir through dialogue.
He was speaking at a discussion on the US-Pakistan relations held by Islamabad Programme in Global Studies.
He said the US could not dictate India or Pakistan, but as a friend of both countries, it could encourage the two sides to resolve the dispute over Kashmir. Munter said good relations between the two countries would be

ANKARA - Turkey is in preliminary talks with France for the construction of a nuclear power plant but Japan has the priority, Anatolia news agency quoted Turkey's energy minister as saying on Friday.
France has expressed interest in building the plant and French energy companies Areva, EDF and GDF Suez have submitted certain proposals, Taner Yildiz said, without elaborating.
"We are evaluating this on the condition that talks with Japan have the priority," he said, according

ISLAMABAD - The Afghan High Council for Peace, a body formed by Kabul to reconcile with the Taliban, on Wednesday asked Pakistan to use its "good office" for the success of ongoing negotiations between the Karzai government and the Taliban.
"The request for Pakistan's help for the facilitation of peace talks between the Taliban and Karzai government was made here at a crucial meeting between the 25-member delegation of the High Council for Peace in Afghanistan led by former

Best known as Cassie from Skins, Hannah Murray stars in Chatroom alongside Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson. The film is directed by Hideo Nakata (The Ring) and focuses on five teenagers.
Chatroom's about to hit UK cinemas so can you tell us a bit about the movie?
It's about a group of teenagers who go online because they have various dissatisfactions with their real lives. Mainly they kind of want excitement and they want friends and they're all looking for something.