An Iranian delegation, including Oil Minister Massoud Mir-Kazemi, met with Turkish counterparts in Ankara this week, to sign a deal to build a new natural gas pipeline and to increase gas sales to Turkey.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

A Pentagon official estimated that allies added between 5,000 and 6,000 troops to help with election security, and said U.S.officials have been asking their counterparts in other countries to have the troops stay.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad told his counterparts that he hoped "fraternal and peaceful relations prevail in the region,once again .

VOA: standard.2009.05.24

A group of the island's top business leaders is visiting New Delhi to entice more of their Indian counterparts to invest in Sri Lanka.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Can we save ourselves from those problems?" Mr.Karzai also requested from his two counterparts that outside parties be allowed to participate in future tri-partite summits.

VOA: standard.2009.05.24

Recently,Sunni and Shi'ite clerics met with Christian counterparts at the National Cathedral in Washington.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Zamarripa says US officials are well aware of the continuing bloodshed in Juarez and surrounding areas and want to help Mexican counterparts gain control of the situation.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

After meeting with Arab foreign ministers in Morocco, Clinton sought to deflect that criticism, saying none of her counterparts characterized what she said in Jerusalem as representing a change in U.S.position.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

Since the financial crisis began in the United States (in 2007), US officials are under pressure to assure their counterparts that they are taking decisive action to safeguard and repair the banking system.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

She says that a number of her counterparts were not aware that the Israeli offer included an end to all new settlement activity in the West Bank, an end to the expropriation of Palestinian land,and an end to any new construction permits.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02