Such an alliance, however, cannot be built on a trilateral peacekeeping agreement including Syria.
More than two dozen countries -- including Syria's allies China and Russia -- did attend.
The EU also tightened its arms embargo and targeted three companies including Syria's flagship airline.
Located in Kayseri, its Istikbal furniture line not only ships abroad, but has several stores in the Middle East, including Syria.
However, they remain at odds over several issues, including Syria, which was suspended from the OIC at its last summit despite Iranian objections.
"I would note that the Iraqi government has invited all of its neighbors, including Syria and Iran, to attend both of these regional meetings, " Rice said.
Influential Arab leaders, including Syria's president, Bashar Assad, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and the wealthy emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad al-Khalifa, flew in to calm nerves.
We discussed a number of world trouble spots, including Syria.
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This week's EU-Mediterranean conference is noteworthy because all 12 Mediterranean partners -- including Syria and Lebanon, which boycotted the event last year to protest Israel's presence -- have agreed to attend.
The BBC's Barbara Plett at the UN says that, despite the scepticism, this is the first strategy for ending the conflict that has the backing of the entire Security Council, including Syria's allies Russia and China.
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In his opening speech, His Excellency Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, the new High Representative of the UNAOC, sounded the alarm on the need to strengthen the tools for cooperation, prevention and resolution of conflicts, to face the rise of intolerance, and several very serious humanitarian situations, including Syria.
The foreign secretary said a number of measures had been adopted, including sanctions on Syria's central bank.
On Thursday a monitoring group said three foreigners had been killed in Syria including an American woman and a British man.
He added the trip marked an opportunity "to discuss the way forward on a broad range of issues of mutual concern, including Iran and Syria".
And we had a chance to talk about a wide range of international issues, including the situation in Syria.
Doing so would require both the establishment of national consensus among Lebanese and constructive cooperation, based on mutual goodwill and sustained dialogue, by all relevant parties and actors on the regional level, including the Governments of Syria and Iran.
Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told CNN's "The Situation Room" that the United States will push other approaches to the conflict, including through the Friends of Syria Group.
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Equant's main selling point is its reach, with service personnel in 145 countries, including remote places like Damascus, Syria and Reykjavik, Iceland.
Mr. Obama took office in 2009 pledging to engage diplomatically with Washington's international antagonists, including the governments in Iran, Syria and North Korea.
It would make sense to have them sit together before Congress and outline an integrated approach to second-term security priorities, including Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and perhaps Mali.
Announcing a full resumption of diplomatic ties, the two governments opened the door to an assortment of possible joint efforts, including how to deal with a beleaguered Syria and a new Egypt.
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Our correspondent said the meeting was taking place as developments, including Israeli air strikes on targets in Syria and concerns about the possible use of chemical weapons, risk bringing the conflict into an even more dangerous phase.
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He spent most of his career in the Middle East and North Africa, including postings to Israel, Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia, in addition to serving as the deputy chief of the U.S. mission to Libya from 2007 to 2009, during the rule of Moammar Gadhafi, according to the State Department.
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We, of course, as usual, discussed various international issues, including the most difficult ones, such as Syria.
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Some 95% of them have remained in the Middle East, including 2m in hard-pressed Jordan and Syria.
Ms. Miller had at times reported on Bolton's activities, including printing advance word of his testimony on Syria to a House committee in September 2003.
The area houses numerous military facilities, including the Jamraya research centre, designated by Syria as a scientific research centre "in charge of raising our level of resistance and self-defence".
Weiss is dusting off evidence in the region known as the Fertile Crescent, including much of modern-day Iraq and Syria, indicating that a human revolution in irrigated agriculture occurred after an extended drought and cold spell.
The former US President, Jimmy Carter, who held talks with the Syrian leader recently has said he believes "about 85%" of the differences between Israel and Syria have already been resolved, including borders, water rights, the establishment of a security zone and on the presence of international forces.
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