Diplomats: Agenda, timetable agreed for Iran final deal talks
Vienna__ Diplomats from Iran and six world powers said Wednesday they had agreed on an agenda of issues and a timetable of meetings to proceed in negotiating a comprehensive Iran nuclear accord. The...
View ArticleUN Syria envoy Brahimi said to consider resigning
UN Syria envoy Lakhdar Brahimi met with the Russians last week and threatened to resign if they did not get the Syrian regime to seriously negotiate. Russian diplomats in the meeting said they would...
View ArticleUN urges Russia, US to resume Syria peace talks
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, on the third anniversary of Syria’s civil war, appealed to the US and Russia to get the Syrian parties back to the peace table. “The Secretary-General appeals to the...
View ArticleFormer Obama officials propose talking with Iran on Syria aid
Amid deepening US-Russia strains over Ukraine, two former Obama administration officials say it may be time for the US to explore trying to develop a channel with Iran to discuss Syria, beginning with...
View ArticleAmbassador Shuffle: Iraq, Jordan, Turkey
State Department executive secretary John R. Bass, a former US ambassador to Georgia, is expected to be nominated to be the next US Ambassador to Turkey, U.S. officials told the Back Channel. Bass, a...
View ArticleVeteran U.S. diplomat Bill Burns to retire, led back channel to Iran
Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, the veteran U.S. diplomat who helped President Obama open a back channel to Iran last year, will retire from the Foreign Service in October, Secretary of State...
View ArticleNegotiator: Iran talks ‘good but difficult’
Vienna__ Iran and six world powers are holding a second day of meetings here as they aim to progress to drafting the text of a final nuclear accord by the end of July, amid continued wide gaps in key...
View ArticleEx envoy Ford says could not defend US Syria policy
Recently retired US Syria envoy Robert Ford told CNN Tuesday that he resigned because he could not defend US policy on Syria. “I was no longer in a position where I felt I could defend American...
View ArticleUS, Iran to hold bilateral nuclear talks in Geneva
US Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns and Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will lead a US delegation to meet with Iranian nuclear negotiators in Geneva on June 9-10, US and Iranian officials...
View ArticleUS, Iran hold ‘intensive, useful’ talks as negotiations intensify
Washington, D.C.__ U.S. and Iranian nuclear negotiators have held two days of “intensive.. useful” talks, but gaps still remain, Iranian officials said Tuesday. The talks, lasting 12 hours over two...
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