US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice named Ganesan as a runner-up for the first Freedom Defenders Award 2007 at a ceremony to mark Human Rights Day
Rice said in the next two months, Washington expects Pyongyang to shut down and seal the Yongbyon nuclear facility.
The United States has said that it has broadened the non-proliferation regime by bringing India inside it through the Indo-US nuclear deal.
Rice argued that the re-positioning of American diplomats from Europe to India was indeed making a difference to foreign policy.
The Pakistan government on Tuesday announced the release of over 3,400 political detainees including lawyers, who were arrested after the imposition of emergency on November 3. The US was 'looking for the lifting of the state of emergency so that elections can be held in a free and open atmosphere,' US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said.
India has "difficult choices" to make on the civilian nuclear cooperation agreement with the United States before the deal can be completed, United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said.
Rice's concerns were over the bills in their current form. India believed this was a case of 'moving the goal-posts.'
In a stern warning to Pakistan, the US has said that any deal with the militants from its restive tribal areas that allows them "save haven" or to act with impunity will "come back to haunt" Islamabad first.
The main Rafah border would be tentatively opened on November 25, and construction of a Gaza seaport would begin.
US President George W Bush and his Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may have their numbers wrong when they accuse China and India of contributing to the global food crisis as a result of growing prosperity-led consumption.
The umbrella Science and Technology agreement is part of the series of pacts aimed at bringing the two countries together in areas such as health, space and information technology.
The US is set to cut aid to India by 35% in 2008 after the South Asian nation was categorised as a 'transforming' country with one of the best-performing economies in the world.
Stating that the deal had good bipartisan support, Rice said: "I do not believe this initiative is Republican or Democratic."
He evaded arrest in the US in a 2005 hit-and-run case. A court has now issued a warrant.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has condemned the assassination of Sri Lanka's foreign minister Lakshman Kadirgamar as a 'senseless murder and vicious act of terror' and urged Sri Lankans not to let it lead to resumed civil war.\n
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice hails Indian Americans and the nuclear deal.
When Rice sat down with Aziz during her visit to Pakistan in March, 2005, the Pakistan Premier, who fancied himself as a ladies man, puffed himself up and held forth in what he obviously was his seductive baritone.
At the State Department after a meeting with the Foreign Minister of Turkey, Rice said she would not want to speculate on the motivations of North Korea over the missile tests or firings.
US non-committal on backing India for UNSC permanent seat
He is also scheduled to meet US Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, and Rumsfeld.
Ambassadors from United States, Russia, China, Britain and France met on Monday to follow up on a discussion by their foreign ministers on council reform.
Maintaining that the US and its allies are still leaving the door open for diplomacy, Rice reiterated that Iran will have to stop its nuclear programme before negotiations can begin.
The Guardian profiles the man who leads Iraq at its most troubled time.
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