United Nations

  • Sep 30, 2002
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RUSSIA/IRAQ: Resolution rebuff

President Vladimir Putin met visiting Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon today and reiterated...

Russia
  • Sep 27, 2002
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RUSSIA/IRAQ: Resolution lobbying

President Vladimir Putin told foreign ambassadors in Moscow yesterday that Iraq's decision to...

Russia
  • Sep 27, 2002
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CHINA: Iraq manoeuvres

As a permanent member of the UN Security Council, China's veto power makes it a key diplomatic...

China
  • Sep 26, 2002
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MIDDLE EAST: US/Isreal strains

Israel today defended its week-long siege of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Ramallah...

United States
  • Sep 25, 2002
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UKRAINE: President under pressure

President Leonid Kuchma today met opposition leaders who yesterday occupied parts of the...

Ukraine
  • Sep 24, 2002
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INTERNATIONAL: Blair's dossier

The UK government today published its long-awaited dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

International
  • Sep 23, 2002
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YUGOSLAVIA: Kosovo confrontation

A gun battle in Kosovo between UN peacekeepers and ethnic Albanian gunmen on August 29 was the...

Yugoslavia
  • Sep 20, 2002
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RUSSIA/GEORGIA: Pankisi pressure

President Vladimir Putin warned the UN on September 12 that Russia would take unilateral...

Russia