"No doubt that by committing to this approach, our talks for cooperation based on step-by-step principles and reciprocity on Iran's nuclear issues could be commenced, " he wrote.

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In line with the discussions from the previous day, the Moroccan authorities and the Director-General concentrated their talks on projects for future cooperation in the field of science and research.

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And don't forget, this also comes on the heels of this summer's failure of the global trade talks, so the concern is that cooperation may be slower, which opens the door for trade and other tensions to go up.

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Since you mention Yemen, there's been some confusion this morning, Prime Minister, about a statement that came out of Downing Street yesterday saying that you and President Obama had had talks resulting in this new British American cooperation in Yemen.

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The recent talks were intended to help rebuild trust and cooperation between the two countries.

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They agreed to hold high-level talks on climate change and to ease business investment cooperation.

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The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Delhi, however, says that foreign policy cooperation is the main focus of the talks between Mr Hague and Mr Khurshid, specially the situation in South Asia and the Middle East, particularly Syria.

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The Obama administration has tried to allay concerns about any new negotiations by saying that they are simply building on talks the Bush administration had previously held with Moscow on missile defense cooperation.

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Toshiba and the Sony-Philips combine started a new round of talks in August, but Toshiba has made clear it will go ahead even without the rival group's cooperation.

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