United Nations member states met informally on Thursday to begin talks on key issues of reforming the body's powerful Security Council. Many countries want to see the 15-member council expanded to include broader regional representation and addition...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 10 July 2007 Negotiations to end the stand off have apparently broken down and a military assault has reportedly begun. A senior military official says the security forces have entered the compound. Hospital officials say a...
By Tom Rivers London 11 May 2007 A day after Tony Blair told Britain that he would be stepping down from office in June 27, the prime minister met Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in London. For VOA, Tom Rivers has details. Tony Blair meets with Iraq's...
By Paula Wolfson Guatemala City 12 March 2007 President Bush says he is hopeful there can be U.S. congressional action by August on immigration reform. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports the controversial issue dominated his talks in Guatemala City with Gu...
By David Gollust Washington 05 March 2007 U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill Senior U.S. and North Korean diplomats have begun landmark talks in New York on normalizing relations as part of the agreement under which Pyongyang has agr...
By David Gollust State Department 22 December 2006 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Thursday rejected linkage between talks on North Korea's nuclear program and U.S. penalties on Pyongyang for illicit financial activity. North Korean efforts...
By Scott Stearns White House 20 December 2006 U.S. President George Bush says there will be no direct talks with Iran until it stops enriching uranium. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, a bipartisan panel studying U.S. policy in I...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 07 December 2006 Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, says he has no intention of opening peace talks with Syria, and that it was wrong to link the Arab-Israeli conflict with efforts to stabilize Iraq - as called for by memb...