Now Bill Clinton has hopped aboard, telling a meeting of African nations in Washington this week that he wanted more debt to be forgiven (see article).
So there is hope that the meeting of finance ministers from the Group of Seven nations in Washington on Friday will have a bit more effect, and investors are taking notice.
In 1949, representatives from 12 nations met in Washington, D.
Washington also needs to reassure smaller nations, especially the ASEAN members, of its continued commitment to multilateralism in trade.
Other coalition ambassadors -- in Paris, London, Washington and the representative to the nations in the Gulf Cooperation Council -- operate without a formal embassy building, according to Sarah Karkour with the coalition's media office.
In 2006 he organized a walk from the United Nations to the Capitol in Washington D.
Convene your own meeting of the United Nations in the heart of Washington, DC's embassy belt with a two-night Thursday-to-Sunday stay at the Normandy Hotel.
The data come ahead of a G20 meeting in Washington, in which leaders of advanced nations will meet with their emerging market counterparts to discuss ways to stem the global financial crisis.
Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, warned that while Washington supports expanding the U.N. monitoring mission, it may "not agree to renew" the mission at the end of 90 days.
The other bullish news early this week is the Group of 20 nations at its weekend meeting in Washington, D.
Finance ministers and members of the Group of Seven nations are due to meet in Washington over the next three days.
Last week, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said that Washington is open to direct talks despite both nations' longstanding dispute over the Iranian nuclear program.
In overnight news, the Japanese stock market rallied and the yen dropped against the U.S. dollar as the Group of 20 nations at its weekend meeting in Washington, D.
Finance officials from the Group of Seven industrialized nations are set to meet Friday in Washington to address the financial meltdown.
Among them is Abdullah Dardari, a former deputy prime minister and senior United Nations official, who is liked from Washington to Riyadh.
Alliances, Washington said, were fine and necessary with other nations.
In 1942, in Washington, 26 countries signed the "Declaration of the United Nations, " affirming opposition to Axis powers and confirming that no co-signatory would make a separate peace.
Countries along the northern exit route may also have an opportunity to bargain with Washington about acquiring some used, nonlethal military hardware to Central Asian nations "remains an option, but it is premature to speculate on what, if anything, might be provided, " a State Department spokeswoman said.
And the two countries work together on many world issues at the United Nations, says Arturo Sarukhan, Mexico's ambassador in Washington, who says the relationship is closer than at any time in the past 15 years.
Doing so might assure that the United Nations would be willing to make use of American secret information when Washington wanted it to.
In the months leading up to this summer's presidential elections in Russia, the International Monetary Fund responded to intensive pressure from Washington and other Western capitals by relaxing the criteria and the conditionality terms that borrowing nations are expected to meet before receiving disbursements on IMF loans.
Worries in Washington as Mexico's election looms are a reminder of the close ties binding the neighboring nations.
While the U.S. delegation says it doesn't want to be an obstacle to a new agreement, Washington remains opposed to steps many other countries support, such as mandatory emissions cuts by rich nations and a target for limiting the rise in global temperatures.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Washington, D.
Washington wanted to see the ship carry the flag around the globe, and to forge new ties with nations like China.
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This week, the United Nations Foundation will join governments, the private sector and civil society organizations for a summit in Washington focused on ending preventable child deaths.
Washington appointed all of America's first justices of the Supreme Court and all of our first ambassadors to other nations.
Ex-Im Bank financing has been used in recent years largely to level a global playing field made uneven by the market-distorting practices of other nations, and yet it has been subjected to much more intense criticism by free-enterprise proponents in Washington than the quasi-socialist practices of European governments subsidizing Airbus.
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