US Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke to External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha on Friday night for a general exchange of views ahead of a visit next week by a top Bush administration official to India.
The Senate had on Wednesday confirmed her as President George W Bush's new Secretary of State, America's top diplomat, in an impressive 85-13 vote.
'We want the UN to play a role, and it is a part of our plan in moving forward,' he said.
Powell also added that Kashmir is a 'very difficult issue' that will take time to resolve, but pointed out that the environment for positive discussions between India and Pakistan has greatly improved
'He could possibly stay on for a year or 18 months, especially if he is told that the ship of state is available at the helm,' a senior official told The Financial Times.
'Dozens of people were wounded and they are being treated at some 10 hospitals,' an official at the al-Hamadi Hospital told Reuters.
French premier Jean Pierre Raffarin wanted Iraq to cooperate with UN inspectors.
We kept foreign ministers stacked over Islamabad and New Delhi a thousand feet apart for six months, the US secretary of state said.
The Indians have indicated they would not be in a position to provide troops. 'I don't expect that position to change,' he said.
World oil prices hit fresh two-year highs Friday as US Secretary of State Colin Powell forecast that within two weeks there will be a persuasive case that Iraq is not cooperating with UN weapons inspectors.
'But there is more work to be done, and we have offered our good offices to the Indians and the Pakistanis over the last couple of days,' Powell said.
In an interview to New York Times, he said the "Indo-Pakistan and the whole subcontinent problem" was part of the "broader agenda" that the US plans to go back to after Iraq.
The United States National Archives has released never-before-seen photographs taken in the White House the day terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Centre that show how Dick Cheney and George Bush reacted as the horror unfolded.
Biden, 77, who served as vice president of the US for eight years from January 2009 to January 2017, would deliver his acceptance speech on Thursday.
'The immune protection may well wane somewhat, and that's what we have to monitor.' 'Should it wane to the point where vaccinated individuals are getting severe disease, then we really will need to give them booster shots and that'll apply regardless of what vaccine they've got the first time.'
On July 1, 2021, Britain's Princess Diana would have turned 60 and two decades after her tragic death in a car accident near the end of summer 1997, she still holds an exalted place on the altar of the most admired people in the world, her status secure as a style icon -- as is her legacy of having forever changed the British monarchy.
Donald Trump and General H R McMaster: It is almost like the Chinese monarch Helü with Sun Tzu at his side.
'Biden's promise of returning to 'normalcy' after Trump appears to mean that the same old politicians, who are responsible for the 'endless wars' in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, are being brought out of the woodwork after four years,' notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
'History will repeat itself after a decade or so and historians will point to the folly of May 2017 as the event that sowed the seeds of another 9/11,' warns Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Since the change in administration in the US, Indian leaders have publicly and privately identified with American objectives in Afghanistan.
'Why can't a person who has supervised military intelligence head RA&W?' 'Why can't one who has overseen national security planning become our NSA or chair the National Security Advisory Board?' asks Vice Admiral Premvir Das (retd).
Atul Keshap, a senior Indian American career diplomat and one of the rising stars in the United States foreign service, has been picked by Nisha Desai Biswal, the newly appointed assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian affairs, to be her deputy.
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'This is going to be an opportunity to hear from the prime minister of the new India and the progress made in the last two years of the growing cooperation between the US and India in several areas, including areas that would have seemed implausible a few years ago.' US Congressman Ed Royce, who led the campaign to have Prime Minister Modi address a joint session of Congress, speaks to Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com in an exclusive interview.
From a shy bride to a passionate campaigner, the story of Diana, 'the People's Princess', was more often than not told through photographs.
Natwar Singh's book is un-illuminating, largely self-justificatory, often contradictory, and at times tendentious. He is too preoccupied with depicting himself as a victim of the Congress party's machinations, says Praful Bidwai.
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