Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas prime minister, called on Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to meet him "to launch a comprehensive dialogue".
Foreign Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf of Iraq said: "We have agreed to open a comprehensive dialogue between the United Nations and Baghdad without preconditions.
He called on India to respond to his call for a comprehensive dialogue that would acknowledge the centrality of Kashmir to the two nations' longstanding enmity, and at the same time move beyond long-held positions.
"We hope their aspirations are confirmed through a respectful and comprehensive dialogue," the Pope said in Lithuanian, one of 55 languages that he used to send holiday greetings to the world.
To set the stage for a comprehensive dialogue about the voting system, the local elections should be rescheduled for this year, so that they take place before the presidential ballot.
The series, and this volume, have brought the world's leading policy experts in the fields of food and agricultural development together for a comprehensive dialogue on pro-poor growth and food security policy.
"Comprehensive dialogue with al-Shabaab at all levels appeared to be the single most important action aid agencies could take to reduce the risk of diversion and improve the prospects for long-term access to areas under its control," said the report.
HANOVER, N.H. — The 11 special envoys who met in Paris late last month to discuss the crisis in Libya issued a final communiqué with predictably anodyne recommendations: support for the formal government, suggestions for making it more inclusive, a call for the militias to withdraw and a proposal that the United Nations spearhead a comprehensive dialogue among the warring parties.
A Syrian Foreign Ministry statement released after the meeting did not mention the proposed truce, but said the two men discussed "objective and rational circumstances to stop the violence from any side in order to prepare for a comprehensive dialogue among the Syrians".
America wants a comprehensive dialogue covering not only missiles, but also ways to reduce the threat from North Korea's conventional forces, and checks that the North is keeping to a 1994 deal that shut down its plutonium production in return for two new reactors and interim deliveries of oil.
Powell called for a "comprehensive dialogue without preconditions" between Washington and the Communist government in Pyongyang.
