World powers have been seeking a solution to the 21 months of conflict in Syria.
Yet she is now notionally in charge of representing the continent to other world powers.
China eventually dealt openly and honestly with other world powers, and investment dollars followed.
Some world powers, particularly Western nations, suspect that Iran is seeking to build nuclear weapons.
But in demanding al-Assad's ouster, Blair said, world powers must be careful about what comes next.
The United States and other world powers have been focused on diplomacy, not military options, for now.
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The six world powers made Iran an offer for stopping its processing of medium-enriched uranium, EU officials said.
Brazil also aspires to secure a permanent place on the United Nations Security Council along with long-established world powers.
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Mr. Netanyahu has said world powers should be prepared for the prospect of military action against Iran by this summer.
World powers have hailed the appointment of veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi as the new UN-Arab League envoy for Syria.
But world powers, bitterly opposed on key crises like Syria, are still finding enough common ground when it comes to Iran.
Six world powers - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany - and Iran are meeting in Istanbul in Turkey.
The U.S. and five other world powers offered Iran a package of incentives if it would freeze uranium enrichment by last Saturday.
The new measures come ahead of the fourth round of talks between Iran and six world powers in Kazakhstan later in February.
In return the world powers suggested easing tough economic sanctions against Iran.
But, as the world powers know from other non-African contexts, real pressure for peace only comes about when they speak in unison.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin called for leading world powers to create an early-warning system, and consider technology to shoot down meteors.
But now that other world powers are rising, Europeans fear that unstoppable competition may take away their jobs and undermine their welfare states.
World powers, particularly Western nations, suspect that Iran wants to build nuclear weapons, although Tehran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
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World powers have urged Russia to agree to an immediate cease-fire with Georgia and accept international mediation on the crisis in South Ossetia.
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Like Chuck, I would rather have the world powers behind a united effort to stop and reverse the nuclear ambitions of Iran's leadership.
At the diplomatic level, Iran is due to resume talks with six world powers in Kazakhstan on 26 February after a gap of eight months.
Some world powers, particularly Western nations, suspect that Iran is seeking to build nuclear weapons, although Tehran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
Then the team won just one of its first six games, losing matches to Costa Rica, Belgium and Ecuador, none of which are world powers.
World powers suspect Iran of pursuing a covert nuclear weapons programme.
The United States and other world powers have worried that Syria would consider using its chemical weaponry arsenal against fighters trying to topple the al-Assad government.
World powers, who suspect Iran is intent on building nuclear weapons, have offered economic and other incentives in exchange for the suspension of its enrichment program.
Some fear that the rebels are being deliberately intransigent, in the hope that the dire humanitarian crisis will force the world powers to send in troops.
The only common ground between Iran and six world powers seemed to be recognition of how far they still have to go to negotiate a way out of this crisis.
The Geneva communique was drawn up in June during a conference in Switzerland that brought together representatives from world powers that had been at odds over the Syrian conflict.
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