Member states are angry at Russia and its delayed response to its promise to withdraw troops from the region.
Early last week, the Syrian government agreed to Tuesday's deadline to withdraw troops.
"The debate now is not over whether to withdraw troops, " said Sen.
India has asked China to withdraw troops it says have moved into disputed territory near the two countries' de facto border in the Himalayas.
He has asked Thailand to withdraw troops from the south, to give an amnesty for insurgents and to declare the area a special administrative zone.
With such questions in mind, observers and lawmakers voice a range of opinions on the impact of the "surge" and Obama's policy to withdraw troops.
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Does it make you reconsider whether the sole motivation here should be to withdraw troops even though the security impact could be upon our own people?
The initiative came after Israel said it planned to continue to withdraw troops from six Palestinian towns, declaring its mission to root out terrorist suspects accomplished.
Sudan claims ownership for the region, and lodged complaints with the United Nations and the African Union to pressure South Sudan to withdraw troops from its territory.
He says China must push the US to withdraw troops from the peninsula and set up a new peace mechanism to replace the armistice agreement with Pyongyang.
They also agreed to withdraw troops from their border area.
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Meanwhile, under international pressure, Netanyahu reversed his previous opposition to the 1993 peace accords and agreed to withdraw troops from most of the West Bank town of Hebron.
And since you've been very clear about a timetable to withdraw all combat troops from Iraq within 16 months, I wonder what's your timetable to withdraw troops eventually from Afghanistan?
Sudan also claims ownership of Heglig and lodged complaints with the United Nations Security Council and the African Union on Wednesday, urging them to pressure South Sudan to withdraw troops from its territory.
Mrs Clinton also said the US was committed to ensuring Russia abided by its agreement to withdraw troops to their pre war-positions - as they agreed to do in a cease-fire agreement signed in August 2008.
While violence ebbed after the truce began last week, Ban said, it resumed days later and Syria has not lived up to its promise to withdraw troops from cities, a key element of the peace plan.
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Abdullah Farhad, a militant spokesman who announced the termination of the 10-month-old cease-fire with militants in the North Waziristan region, said Taliban leaders made the decision after the government failed to withdraw troops from checkpoints in the region.
When asked about turning over security responsibility to Afghan forces next year, Rasmussen denied it was an acceleration of the transition, saying the plan all along was to withdraw troops in 2014 after shifting the lead security role to Afghan forces.
It calls for both countries to unconditionally withdraw troops to their own territory and "immediately cease all hostilities".
He might if the benchmarks weren't tied to a timetable to withdraw the troops, but to say economic aid for Iraq.
The two leaders were yet to meet but their commanders had agreed to withdraw their troops and life in the capital was returning to normal.
The US plans to withdraw combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
The only solution, the paper said, was for Israel to withdraw its troops.
Instead, the U.S. President persuaded Sharif to withdraw his troops--to the military's outrage.
He began by fulfilling his campaign promise to withdraw the troops from Iraq, which earned him the enmity of Mr Bush.
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The members were debating whether to withdraw American troops from Iraq immediately.
"We grant the Japanese government 48 hours to withdraw its troops from Iraq or this infidel will be beheaded, " one of the militants said.
So this is complicated, but I'm committed to withdraw our troops and to put the Iraqi government on notice that their time is running out.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his Labor government were elected in a landslide victory last year on a campaign pledge to withdraw combat troops by mid-2008.
France plans to withdraw its troops from Mali next month, with West African countries expected to take over in the run-up to elections due in July.
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