The plan also calls for reconciliation efforts that could include holding talks with Taliban factions willing to abandon the insurgency.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

Clinton's visit to Europe began Saturday in Zurich, Switzerland to attend another reconciliation meeting between long-time enemies Turkey and Armenia.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

Israel at the time said it hoped the speech would lead to a new era of reconciliation between Arabs and Israelis.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

President Karzai said to create the right environment for reconciliation, the United Nations should remove some Afghans named on its terrorist blacklist.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

"In the last three years, the people of this country have been working to promote reform, reconstruction,and reconciliation.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

Thin Thin Aung says Aung San Suu Kyi's participation in the election is necessary to ensure national reconciliation.

VOA: standard.2009.05.15

The government of Sri Lanka has said that they are determined to establish a reconciliation process with the people of the north.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

It is different from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission where they bring people to the big towns.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Sierra Leone's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was set up in 2002 to document the human rights abuses committed during the war and foster healing.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

He says every effort must be made to begin a process of healing and national reconciliation.

VOA: standard.2009.05.19

(Speech) Mr.Karzai says he will continue to reach out to militants and that he hopes Omar and other Taliban recognize the necessity of reconciliation.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

Egypt has tried to overcome this obstacle by sponsoring reconciliation talks between Hamas and Fatah.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

He also noted that national reconciliation needs to be a priority of the new government.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

But as one Hamas official put it: Mr.Abbas has dealt a "lethal blow to reconciliation."

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

Miliband thanked the Iraqi authorities for their efforts in Moore's release and praised the government's process of national reconciliation with armed groups prepared to renounce violence.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

However,critics warn that without freedom of expression, reconciliation is doomed to failure.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

"Aung San Suu Kyi is key to the national reconciliation in Burma,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.19

The country's first post-apartheid president, Nelson Mandela, campaigned hard for the prestigious tournament because he saw it as a way to further reconciliation after decades of racial separation and conflict.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

"Zimbabwe has gone through processes of announcing national union and reconciliation in the past and these processes have all been geared towards providing impunity and allowing perpetrators to go scot-free,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

Earlier this week,a group representing Mogadishu's dominant Hawiye clan said that al-Shabab militants had sent death threats to clan elders for participating in peace and reconciliation efforts with Somalia's interim government.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

A researcher with South Africa's Center for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, Glen Mpani, said a major impediment to peace and reconciliation is the culture of impunity that has evolved.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

East Timor's leaders, many of them former rebels who fought Indonesia, see reconciliation with the former occupier as more crucial for the future of the country than judicial action to bury the ghosts of past violence.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

"The closeness the continuing progress on the Cypriot talks, would suggest that the European Union is not going to pull the plug on Turkey, because that simply would stop hopes of peace and reconciliation on Cyprus,too.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

At the ASEAN summit in October, Burma's prime minister indicated they could lift some restrictions against the detained Nobel prize winner and allow her to play a role in the country's political reconciliation if she behaves.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

The term "reconciliation" refers to a process President Obama and Democrats are likely to use to win upcoming votes in the Senate with a simple 51 vote majority, rather than a 60 vote margin, to avoid Republican roadblocks.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

The State Department says if the Sri Lankan government really is interested, as it says it is, in post-war reconciliation, it should investigate alleged abuses in the closing months of the conflict and bring to justice those responsible.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Foreign Secretary Miliband says for Britain,the new government in Kabul must be credible and it must have a clear view of Afghanistan's future regarding its security, its ability to achieve political reconciliation and its ability to build its economy.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

I know where your mom is. I know where your brother is buried. When people come up and say we know where so and so is it's a signal to us that the reconciliation, the coming together of Hutu, Tutsi kind of business is really in progress and we are really happy with it,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.10