Clinton may visit Israel in October

September 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to announce a number of energy projects in Pakistan during her visit to the country, a media report said Friday. The matter was discussed during a meeting between US envoy to Pakistan Anne W.

September 16th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - US State Department has said that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is planning to visit Pakistan in near future, but nothing has been finalised yet. "She looks forward to going to Pakistan and that region as well, but there's nothing that's been planned yet," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters on Wednesday.

August 18th, 2009 Obama to meet with Egyptian president TuesdayWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's focus turns to Mideast matters Tuesday when he sits down with his Egyptian counterpart at the White House. The meeting comes after President Hosni Mubarak's discussions with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday about the stalled Mideast peace talks.

August 17th, 2009 Clinton sees Mubarak ahead of White House talksWASHINGTON — The Obama administration is hopeful that groundwork can be laid soon to allow the resumption of stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, the State Department said Monday. "We're trying to work hard to create conditions for negotiation to continue and we hope to have this phase of this process completed in the next few weeks," spokesman P.J.

August 4th, 2009 SEOUL - Visiting former US president Bill Clinton Tuesday met North Korea's ailing leader Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang and conveyed a verbal message from US President Barack Obama, South Korea's state-run Yonhap news agency reported. Kim has hosted a dinner for Clinton at the state guesthouse, according to Radio Pyongyang and Korean Central Broadcasting Station.

August 1st, 2009 JERUSALEM - Rejecting the Obama administration's call to resume peace talks with Israel, Saudi Arabia has said that its relations will not improve with the Jewish state unless it withdraws from all occupied Palestinian territories. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, that his country could not consider steps suggested by US Mideast peace envoy George Mitchell, as Israel was not interested in a deal.

July 31st, 2009 PRETORIA - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit South Africa next week as part of her seven-nation tour of Africa, BuaNews Reported. Clinton will begin her tour Aug 5 when she arrives in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, to attend the 8th US-Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum (AGOA Forum).

July 26th, 2009 Clinton says Israel should be patient on IranWASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is implicitly urging Israel to give U.S. policy on Iran's nuclear ambitions a chance to work.

June 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Playing down reports of fresh differences of understanding with Washington, the visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said that both the countries at most have a disagreed on only one point. "There can be a disagreement on one issue.

June 6th, 2009 JERUSALEM - Israel will eventually have no other option but to accept a two-state solution because the United States will not give up on this issue, according to Israel Radio. sraeli officials said if Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu agrees to adopt the road map peace plan, he will prevent the Obama Administration from pressuring Israel to accept the establishment of a Palestinian state under other circumstances.

May 18th, 2009 JERUSALEM - Only 31 percent of Israelis consider US President Barack Obama's approach pro-Israel, a survey conducted ahead of the meeting between Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu revealed. According to a Smith Research poll, 31 percent Israelis labeled Obama pro-Israel, while 14 percent said he was pro-Palestinian and 40 percent felt he was neutral.

May 15th, 2009 JERUSALEM - Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief Leon Panetta was sent on a secret mission to Israel to warn its leaders not to launch a surprise attack on Iran without notifying Washington. As Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, prepares to visit Washington, it emerged yesterday that Panetta, went to Israel two weeks ago to seek assurances from Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak that their hawkish new Government would not attack Iran without alerting Washington.

March 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be going to India at some point, but it's not clear whether the visit would be before or after the Indian general election next month. 'At some point Clinton will be going to India, but there isn't any plan at this moment of her travel,' State Department spokesman Robert Wood said Tuesday briefing reporters about Clinton's meeting Monday with visiting Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon.

February 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to buck tradition and make her first visit as the top US diplomat to Asia, rather than Europe or the Middle East, media reports said. Clinton plans to visit Japan, China, South Korea and possibly a country in South-East Asia, the reports released late Tuesday said.

February 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US' new Middle East envoy George Mitchell met Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Tuesday after returning from his first visit to the region, but won't stay away long as he plans another trip by the end of the month. Mitchell is to return to the Middle East before the end of February, Clinton said, calling his recent trip 'the first of what will be an ongoing high level of engagement by Senator Mitchell on behalf of myself and the president'.