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India rejects Pakistan's invitation for foreign secretary-level talks

India on Wednesday rejected Pakistan's invitation for foreign secretary-level talks on Indian- controlled Kashmir.

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Erdogan says talks with Putin to open new page in relations: TASS

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan expects talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week to open "a new page" in bilateral relations, he told the Russian news agency TASS in an interview published on Sunday.

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Achieving peace in Afghanistan through talks requires more time than first expected

Peace talks between the Afghan government and the radical Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan party led by Gulbudin Hekmatyar have reportedly broken down after three months following the latter insisted on new impossible-to-meet demands such as foreign forces pulling out of the aid-dependent country.

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Philippines to send former president to China for talks on South China Sea

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday said he was asking former President Fidel Ramos to help start talks with China over disputes in the South China Sea.

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UN Special Envoy aiming for July resumption of Syria peace talks

​The UN Special Envoy for Syria announced Thursday that he will brief the UN Security Council on June 29 after holding consultations in New York and Washington in view of resuming intra-Syrian talks aiming to broker an end to the five-year conflict next month.

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Beijing Forum spurs hopes for Six-Party Talks resumption

Diplomats from countries involved in the stalled Six-Party Talks on the Korean nuclear issue are expected to convene at a gathering in Beijing this week.

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Yemen in deep crisis as peace talks faltering

​Suffering is not new to the Yemeni people who have been coping with crises since chaos started in the country in 2011.

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China, US to unveil new list of off-limits areas at bilateral investment pact talks next week

China and the United States will next week exchange the latest lists of off-limits sectors as part their bilateral investment treaty talks, Vice-Premier Wang Yang said on Monday.

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UN urges rapid solution for Yemen in light of suffering

​UN secretary-general's special envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, said that reports from several Yemeni cities indicate the magnitude of suffering that the Yemeni people are going through in light of shortages in basic services, a UN spokesman said here Wednesday.

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War not a solution between India, Pakistan, says Islamabad's envoy

Pakistan's envoy to India Abdul Basit on Monday said that war is not a solution between the two countries and bilateral issues can be resolved only through talks.

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Syria peace talks not to resume in coming weeks: UN envoy

​Syrian peace talks aiming to broker an end to the five-year conflict will not resume in the next two to three weeks, United Nations(UN) Special Envoy for Syria Staffan De Mistura's office announced in a statement Thursday.

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G7 finance leaders at odds over stimulus, currencies

Japan faces a challenge in bridging a widening divide over how to revitalize sluggish growth in leading economies at a meeting of top financial officials that began Thursday with the group bashing in the lids of sake barrels.

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Israeli PM lauds Egypt's calls for peace between Israel, Palestinians

​Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed on Tuesday the remarks by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on the necessity of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

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Yemen's gov't delegation suspends participation in UN-facilitated peace talks

​Delegates of Yemen's internationally recognized government in Kuwait suspended their participation in the ongoing negotiations with Houthis for the second time this month, Yemen's foreign minister said on Tuesday.

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French president postpones Middle East peace conference to summer

​A French-sponsored international conference to re-launch Israeli-Palestinian peace talks stand postponed from May to the summer, French President Francois Hollande announced on Tuesday.

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Syria's future in limbo amid lingering uncertainties

Hopes of ending Syria's long-standing conflict hang in the balance as disturbing violence continues to blemish the war-torn country's political and military landscape.

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EU, Japan seek to conclude free trade deal this year

The European Union (EU) and Japan sought to conclude their free trade deal in 2016, which has missed the deadline of last year due to lack of breakthrough in tariff liberalization, a EU statement said Wednesday.