South Asia’s nuclear powers meet at Non-Aligned Summit to defuse tensions and restart talks

October 1st, 2009 Iran open to higher level talks with world powersUNITED NATIONS — Iran's foreign minister said Thursday his nation is willing to raise and extend its dialogue on a wide variety of issues to a "summit" level with world powers. Manouchehr Mottaki told reporters that Iran went into talks Thursday near Geneva with the United States and five other world powers with "a clear agenda and a plan of action." "And we have entered into these discussions with this clear agenda, and this dialogue can also be enhanced, both in form and the level of discussions," he said in Farsi, speaking through a translator at a news conference at U.N.

October 1st, 2009 Top powers meet Iran over nuclear programGENEVA — The United States and five other world powers have begun high-stakes talks with Iran to demand a freeze of its nuclear activities. A senior U.S.

October 1st, 2009 US, Iran meet directly at nuclear talks in GenevaGENTHOD, Switzerland — A senior U.S. official has met Iran's top atomic negotiator for face-to-face talks — the first such encounter in years of big-power attempts to persuade Tehran to freeze a program that could create nuclear weapons.

September 14th, 2009 US, 5 other world powers expected at Iran talksBRUSSELS — The EU says the United States and five other world powers are expected to meet with Iran's nuclear negotiator on Oct. 1. Spokeswoman Cristina Gallach says EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana will meet with Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili.

September 7th, 2009 TEHRAN, Iran — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran is ready to hold talks with the world powers over global challenges including its nuclear program. Ahmadinejad said Monday Iran will initially present its package of proposals to the five permanent members of the U.N.

August 3rd, 2009 SKorean envoy to meet US officials over NKoreaSEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's nuclear envoy will meet key U.S. diplomats in charge of North Korea policy in Hawaii this week to talk about how to handle the communist country in the wake of its latest nuclear and missile tests, his office said Monday.

July 27th, 2009 NKorea says it's open to new dialogue on nukesSEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Monday that it is open to new dialogue to defuse tensions over its nuclear weapons program in what appeared to be a call for direct talks with the United States. The statement from Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry marks a rare expression of willingness to talk by a regime that has rapidly escalated tensions with a flurry of provocations in recent months, including a nuclear test and a series of missile launches.

July 18th, 2009 SEOUL, South Korea — A top US envoy plans to hold talks with South Korean officials as Washington warned of aggressive sanctions on North Korea unless Pyongyang returns to the stalled multinational talks on ending its nuclear programs. Kurt Campbell, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs, was to meet his South Korean counterpart later in the day and Seoul's foreign minister and its top nuclear envoy on Monday.

July 16th, 2009 SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt — Pakistan has promised India it will do everything in its power to bring the Mumbai terror attackers to justice, a key demand by New Delhi to improve relations. The prime ministers of the two countries also agreed Thursday that action on terrorism should not be linked to their peace talks, a joint statement said.

July 15th, 2009 North Korea: No disarmament talksSHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt — North Korea is not ready to resume disarmament negotiations over its nuclear program because the U.S. and its allies do not respect the nation's sovereignty, said the country's No.

July 15th, 2009 Leaders gather for Non-Aligned summit in EgyptSHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt — World leaders gathered Wednesday at an Egyptian Red Sea resort town for a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, a 118-nation group that was born during the Cold War but is now struggling to stay relevant. The Sharm el-Sheik summit is the 15th since the movement was created more than five decades ago.

July 13th, 2009 Chinese, SKorean envoys meet for NKorea talksSEOUL, South Korea — Top nuclear negotiators for China and South Korea held discussions Monday on how to break the impasse in negotiations over North Korea's atomic program, as South Korea's president called for a get-tough approach on Pyongyang. North Korea quit the six-nation nuclear negotiations in April in anger over a U.N.

July 10th, 2009 Obama to conclude summit talks, meet with popeL'AQUILA, Italy — Global problems, Africa and the pope all figure in President Barack Obama's day. He's in Italy, where the three-day G-8 summit on climate change and the economy is wrapping up.

June 18th, 2009 Russia-US talks on nuclear arms 'constructive'MOSCOW — Russia says talks with the United States on nuclear arms reductions have been constructive, but suggests a summit next month may not bring a new deal. Talks on an arms reduction deal to replace the 1991 START treaty are a keystone of efforts to improve troubled Russian-American ties.

April 20th, 2009 UN says NKorea could restart nuclear facilityBEIJING — The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog says North Korea could restart its nuclear facility within months, but that he hopes negotiations on halting Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions can be revived. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed El-Baradei said Monday "it could be a question of months" when asked how soon North Korea could restart its nuclear facility.