"Pakistan also faces an insurgency in Baluchistan, which Pakistan has also not been able to resolve physically," Wood said.
"This is, again, a very serious, important issue to which international community must pay attention on an urgent basis," he remarked. "We need to act on the basis of several principles, that this global warming is a global issue."
While there is 'incontrovertible evidence' that Teheran's Quds force inside Iraq is responsible for violence against Americans, Bush said he cannot say for sure if Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmajinejad gave the direct orders.
United States foreign policy experts have rated Pakistan just behind Somalia as the country most likely to become the next stronghold of Al Qaeda.
Rice said in the next two months, Washington expects Pyongyang to shut down and seal the Yongbyon nuclear facility.
The Bush administration has earmarked $300 million for Pakistan from nearly $300 billion that the White House is seeking from the Congress for the global war on terror.
The United States has said that it has broadened the non-proliferation regime by bringing India inside it through the Indo-US nuclear deal.
He said the decision announced in January to send a second US aircraft carrier to the Gulf region does not mean the US is planning for a war with Iran.
The contest is America's oldest and most prestigious high school science competition where six former finalists have won the Nobel Prize.
The delivery of the missiles is expected to start in 2008 and go through until 2011.
Conceding that the present conditions in Iraq were not something expected, Bush said, "This is not the fight we entered in Iraq, but it is the fight we are in."
The Tamil Nadu Irrigated Agriculture Modernisation and Water-Bodies Restoration and Management Project is designed to modernise irrigation systems covering over 600,000 hectares in 63 selected sub-basins throughout the state.
The 35-year-old Republican will be quitting the House of Representatives for a rematch with Governor Kathleen Blanco.
An Indian-American Christian outfit in the United States has expressed concern over a bill passed by Himachal Pradesh, alleging that it was aimed at harassing Christian workers in the Congress-ruled state.
Despite making "some progress" in tackling the menace of trafficking, India needs to do more in designating and empowering a national agency to carry out an effective law enforcement response to the crime.
Richardson's entry in the race for the Democratic Party nomination makes the 2008 race one of the most ever diverse group assembled.
McCormack told media persons on Monday that the US understood the concerns of Afghanistan on cross-border terrorism and that there has been an increase in Taliban activities over the recent months.
There was a general discussion during which Republicans welcomed the agreement and Democrats voiced mixed feelings.
At least five organizations, including Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the Kurdistan Workers Party in Turkey and the Humanitarian Law Project had challenged Bush's order.
LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, in an annual speech on Monday, said the 2002 ceasefire agreement "defunct" and vowed to resume fighting.
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