There has been little evidence of the unions, greens or New Democrats using the primary contest to advance their competing agendas.

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These competing agendas are not absent from the UltraViolet program and the noticeable absence of Apple and Disney from the alliance is evidence of that.

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Mr. Annan, who convened the meeting to help salvage a peace plan for Syria he brokered in April, warned that the country's deepening conflict posed "extreme dangers" to the region and the world, and reprimanded countries for competing agendas which have locked the international community in a stalemate while often fueling the violence inside Syria.

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