And the foreign minister cautioned the U.S. on its position.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke by phone with India's foreign minister, and U.S. Ambassador Nancy Powell met with Sikh community leaders in New Delhi and visited the largest Sikh temple in the city, said State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell.
Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven nations discussed the situation in Georgia in a conference call on Monday and expressed support for mediation efforts led by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, a U.S. State Department spokesman said.
U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, meeting in Norway with Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, said U.S officials had not been able to confirm the report.
The one-day visit is the first to Iraq by a Gulf Cooperation Council foreign minister since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the Iraqi government said.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. VP Joe Biden will meet with Syrian opposition leaders on Saturday in Munich, a United Nations spokesman said on Friday.
Brahimi is scheduled to meet with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns at the U.N. offices in Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday.
Lakhdar Brahimi made the remark after meeting with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns at the United Nations offices in Geneva, Switzerland.
He highlighted the commitment of both Secretary Clinton and Foreign Minister Qureshi to the U.S.-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue, which has allowed our two countries to deepen our consultations on security, economic, development, and governance issues.
Brahimi said he would travel to Geneva on Thursday for a meeting with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, whose governments back different sides in the war.
Clinton spoke by phone with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and with U.S. Ambassador Francis Ricciardone, Ms. Nuland said.
Iraq Thursday delivered a letter from Foreign Minister Naji Sabri to chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix, which welcomed talks with Blix and his experts.
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov described as odious a U.S. co-sponsored resolution criticizing Syria at the U.N.
At a signing ceremony for the deal Monday morning with U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari called it a historic day for Iraqi-U.S. relations.
Pakistan's foreign minister said he was disappointed in the U.S. action.
Gadhafi's son Saif al-Islam visited Washington, and his suave and murderous intelligence chief Musa Kusa (Michigan State University class of '78, and more recently Libya's foreign minister) was allowed back into the U.S. All sanctions ended.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius left the talks earlier Monday to return to Paris to meet with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who are leading the effort to bring the two warring Syrian sides to the negotiating table.
Asked whether he was aware, as Assange claims, that the U.S. is preparing an indictment against him, Foreign Minister Bob Carr told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) he put the question to U.S. officials and they answered in the negative.
Also at the meeting were China's new finance minister Lou Jiwei, U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke, an assistant Chinese foreign minister Cui Tiankai, and other officials of both governments.
Shortly afterwards, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov laughed it off inside the U.N. building.
Poland's Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz insists his country wants a U.N. mandate for any stabilization force.
Japan's foreign minister says he will set up meetings with U.S. officials as soon as possible to defuse bilateral tensions.
In Washington, Israel's Foreign Minister Shimon Peres was due to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.
While our Senate was assured, and asserted, that such a unilateral statement would have no bearing on U.S. defenses, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the Duma formally affirmed it as part of Moscow's ratification proceedings.
Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Mokdad met representatives of the U.N. mission staying at the hotel and said later that they were unscathed in the blast, and expressed his government's pride that not a single member of the U.N. mission has been harmed since the start of their mandate in late April.
Foreign Minister Lavrov wouldn't say whether Russia would support U.N. sanctions, and Rice didn't push it.
Also on Monday, the United Nations nominated South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon to succeed Kofi Annan as U.N. secretary-general.
The French Minister for Foreign Affairs will soon be traveling to the U.S. in order to meet his counterpart, Mr. John Kerry.
Her finger-pointing and terse ultimatum followed criticism of U.S. policy by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who suggested unilateral measures "undermine and impede" other ongoing talks between Iran and both the International Atomic Energy Agency and European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana.
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