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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations took a major step towards becoming an EU-style community.
Monday, December 15, 2008 www.hindustantimes.com
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Foreign Affairs
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations took a major step towards becoming an EU-style community on Monday with the passing into force of a new charter setting benchmarks for democracy.
The charter sets out rules of membership, transforms ASEAN into a legal entity and envisages a single free trade area by 2015 for the region of 500 million people.
It came into force with a meeting of ASEAN fo
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China warned French President Nicolas Sarkozy to call off a planned meeting with the Dalai Lama.
Tuesday, December 02, 2008 justsamachar.com
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Beijing: China warned French President Nicolas Sarkozy to call off a planned meeting with the Dalai Lama, saying on Tuesday that it was up to Sarkozy to create the right conditions for putting China-EU relations back on track.
The French leader, who holds the rotating presidency of the European Union until the end of the year, has said he will meet the Dalai Lama in Poland on December 6.
China p
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Nicolas-Sarkozy
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Horror-struck Europeans were glued to their television screens on Thursday as the terror attacks.
Friday, November 28, 2008 justsamachar.com
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Foreign Affairs
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Paris: Horror-struck Europeans were glued to their television screens on Thursday as the terror attacks and accompanying hostage drama in Mumbai was beamed in real time into their rooms.
European nations are planning to send a special plane to Mumbai to evacuate EU nationals trapped in the city, sources here indicate. In addition, the Spanish government said it would send a plane to bring out Spa
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Paris
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Mumbai
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Spanish
government
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EU nations were divided over whether to resume talks on a political and economic pact with Russia
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 www.ndtv.com
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Foreign Affairs
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EU nations were divided over whether to resume talks on a political and economic pact with Russia that were frozen in protest over its war with Georgia.
Germany and Italy led the campaign to resume discussions on trade, energy and political ties on Monday after Moscow withdrew its forces from parts of Georgia according to the terms of an EU-brokered cease-fire.
But some EU foreign ministers, led
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Russia
Georgia
Germany
David-Miliband
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The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has asked European Union (EU) states to take
Saturday, October 11, 2008 www.indianexpress.com
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Foreign Affairs
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New York: The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has asked European Union (EU) states to take steps in preventing sexual violence against women in conflict and post-conflict situations.
"We are not here for another talking shop, where we lament the terrible and systematic nature of violence," UNIFEM Executive Director Ines Alberdi said at the "From Commitment to Action" meeting or
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Euro banknotes embellished with images of prostitutes are being used to discourage Ukrainian women f
Friday, October 10, 2008 www.mid-day.com
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Foreign Affairs
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Kiev (Ukraine): Altered Euro banknotes embellished with images of prostitutes are being used to discourage Ukrainian women from getting caught up in the sex trade.
The images, which are otherwise almost indistin- guishable from the genuine notes, have been produced as part of a campaign to prevent women from the former Soviet state from seeking to work illegally in the EU.
They show under-dresse
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(EU) observers started their mission on Wednesday to monitor the Russo-Georgian
Wednesday, October 01, 2008 www.hindustantimes.com
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Foreign Affairs
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European Union (EU) observers started their mission on Wednesday to monitor the Russo-Georgian ceasefire agreement one and half months after conflict flared between the two countries over Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Russian troops still in Georgia prevented the observers from entering the security zone they set up around South Ossetia.
"It is not a categorical ban
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Italy's church asks EU to aid "hunted" Christians
Monday, September 22, 2008 justsamachar.com
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Nations
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Roman Catholic bishops urged the European Union on Sunday to treat the persecution of Christians overseas as a humanitarian emergency after deadly attacks on Christian churches and homes in India.
The bishops' newspaper Avvenire used a front-page editorial to demand that violence against Christians must be on the agenda of an upcoming summit between the EU and India.
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EU report on Kashmir criticises Pakistan
Friday, May 25, 2007 www.rediff.com
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Foreign Affairs , Nations
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The European Parliament has adopted a report on Kashmir, criticising Pakistan for its lack of progress on democracy and human rights and commending India as the largest secular democracy.
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