Sentence examples for starting reconciliation from inspiring English sources

She spoke more than a week after a proposed Security Council compromise resolution, aimed at ending the violence and starting reconciliation talks in a plan advanced by the Arab League, collapsed with a veto by Russia and China, which feared it was a pretext to depose President Bashar al-Assad and possibly invite outside military intervention, as happened in Libya last year.

PARWAN, Afghanistan — The top American commander in Afghanistan said Monday that high-level Taliban leaders had reached out to senior Afghan government officials in the context of starting reconciliation discussions that could pave the way to end the fighting in Afghanistan.

That initiative is complicated by efforts to start reconciliation talks between the government and the Taliban.

Efforts to start reconciliation talks with the Taliban are a high priority of Mr. Karzai's government, which last year formed the High Peace Council, whose 70 members include a dozen former Taliban officials.

A government minister, Ishaq Khan Khakwani, said this week that moves were already afoot to start reconciliation with all parties and have General Musharraf seek re-election by members of a newly elected Parliament instead.

While some are hopeful that the government may soften the provisions before final approval, women's advocates see the effort as an example of government pandering to religious and social conservatives as President Hamid Karzai's administration starts reconciliation efforts with insurgents.

North Korea has taken a significant step toward reducing its isolation by starting a reconciliation with Japan, an enemy for many decades.

WASHINGTON — Just a month after accusing Pakistan's spy agency of secretly supporting the Haqqani terrorist network, which has mounted attacks on Americans, the Obama administration is now relying on the same intelligence service to help organize and kick-start reconciliation talks aimed at ending the war in Afghanistan.

The only way forward is to release political prisoners and start a reconciliation process.

We couldn't start any reconciliation or talks after they started with tanks and planes.

The revolution enabled us to start the reconciliation process, when Islamists and liberals started talking together in the streets.