This week in our series, Leo Scully and Jack Weitzel tell how these issues were handled during the administration of President Benjamin Harrison.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

"We cannot have a militarized model of diplomacy and development and expect to be successful in making our case on all these other issues that we engage with governments on."

VOA: special.2010.05.29

"And a step like the one it took yesterday is not helpful, is not going to lead to a resolution of these outstanding issues.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

Therefore,due to a lack of formal recognition, we've established our syndicate to defend these issues under the supervision of the Tunisian General Labor Union."

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

"There's quite a bit of concern and disappointment in President Obama, in the sense that Israel sort of under attack on all of these settlement issues, on Jerusalem,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

I think these issues can be an affirmative part of that.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

So the fundamental issues are not going to go away,". These are the fundamental issues that Hariri will have to face again in a series of talks scheduled until next Tuesday with various other parties including militant group Hezbollah.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

"More and more, there are actually people aware of the fact if we want to know more about medicine or actually how to treat patients with all these health care issues, we have to look to the past as well."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

He says the Obama administration's "It's a presumption that these are obstacles to cooperation, which in fact I think China has enough of their own interests and equities in for example the economic situation to cooperate irrespective of what we do on some of these other issues,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

We're not interested in talking for talking's sake." "We're looking to see through an early meeting, should Iran be willing, we'd be looking to see if they are willing to engage seriously on these issues but within the context of the P5+1 the full range of issues that we have among these countries and Iran."

VOA: standard.2009.09.11