January, 2007

• 15 January

  Iran, Venezuela Ink 10 Cooperation Agreements

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Tehran and Caracas issued a joint statement and signed 10 cooperation agreements and Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) in various grounds on Saturday.

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• 15 January

  Iran, Venezuela Call for Slashing OPEC Production

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran and Venezuela called on the other members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to slash their production in a bid to prevent any further drop in the world oil prices.

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• 15 January

  United States’ New Movements in Region Doomed to Failure

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior Iranian lawmaker, assessing the new Iraq strategy of the US President George W. Bush, said that the United States’ new moves in Iraq and the region are all destined to failure.

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• 15 January

  Ahmadinejad: Assisting Underdeveloped Nations a Humane Duty

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said all the world countries should assist those nations which have been kept behind, describing it as a humane duty for all.

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• 15 January

  MP Calls on UN to React to US

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Chairman of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission called on the United Nations to take urgent and serious measures with regard to the United States’ illegal actions in Iraq.

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• 15 January

  King urges US to ‘actively’ push for peace

  AMMAN (JT) — King Abdullah on Sunday urged the US to “actively” push for reviving Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, leading to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, a Royal Court statement said.

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• 15 January

  Abbas rejects temporary agreement

  PRESIDENT GEORGE W. Bush’s top diplomat tried to assure Palestinians on Sunday she has heard their demands for a stronger US hand to guide peace efforts with Israel. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, however, offered no new plans and gave few clues to how she views recent initiatives proposed by …

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• 15 January

  Talabani on landmark visit to Syria

  DAMASCUS (AP) — Syria’s president promised to do what he can to ease tensions in neighbouring Iraq on Sunday during a landmark visit here by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, just days after the US president accused Syria of backing Iraq’s insurgency.

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• 15 January

  Arabs seek Iraq-for-Mideast peace deal

  CAIRO — Moderate Arab governments planned to tell visiting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that they will help Washington stabilise Iraq if the US in turn takes more active steps to revive a broad peace initiative between Israel and its Arab neighbours, Arab officials and media said Sunday.

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• 15 January

  Iraqi FM calls for release of 5 Iranians detained by US

  The Iraqi foreign minister called Sunday for the release of five Iranians detained by US forces in what he said was a legitimate mission in northern Iraq, but he stressed that foreign intervention to help insurgents would not be tolerated.

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