Only then can the two countries resume talks over other issues concerning the Muslim-majority state.
He called on India and Pakistan to resume talks over "the issues that divide them, and that includes Kashmir" -- an idea that India's prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, specifically rejected today.
As teaching unions resumed talks over their pension schemes, one union leader said there was a greater urgency in talks between the teaching unions and government following the mass walkout.
Mr. Xi has offered a "big gift" to the United States, Mr. Shi said, by pressuring the new leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, to resume talks over his country's growing nuclear weapons program.
PAGE B3 North Korea Open to Talks North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Il, said his nation was ready to resume talks over its nuclear arms program as early as next month if the United States treated it with respect, South Korea's government said.
Unbowed by China's latest threat of force, Taiwan called on the mainland today to set aside fruitless debates over sovereignty and resume talks over economic ties and other practical matters to improve relations.
The European Union wants Turkey to press Turkish Cypriots to resume talks over the division of Cyprus and to drop its veto of the use of NATO assets by the planned union defense force.
The BMA has made a last-ditch attempt to prevent the walkouts by offering to call them off if Hunt drops his threat to impose the contract and resume talks over the detail of their terms and conditions.
ATHENS — Greece's government submitted its 2013 draft budget on Monday, outlining enormous spending cuts as the country's foreign lenders returned to resume talks over a broader austerity package in exchange for the rescue money the country needs to meet expenses.
With less than a week before the United Nations resumes talks over what could be the first treaty of its kind, a report warns that a golden opportunity to properly regulate the international arms trade will be lost unless changes are made to the draft text.
