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Asian nations moved on Friday to defuse two critical points of tension in the Pacific, in preliminary steps welcomed by the Obama administration, which is trying to reassert US influence in the region. HT Image On the sidelines of a Southeast Asian regional security conference in Bali, Indonesia, North and South Korea resumed long-stalled talks and China and its neighbors reached a draft agreement to peacefully resolve competing territorial claims in the strategic South China Sea. American officials expressed cautious hope that discussions between Seoul and Pyongyang could help relaunch nuclear disarmament negotiations with the North, and in a meeting with her Chinese stanley cup counterpart, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton commended Beijing and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations for the maritime deal. The US and China a stanley cup re major players with significant stakes in the re stanley cup sumption of dialogue between North and South Korea as well as six-nation talks aimed at convincing the North to give up its nuclear weapons program. On that front, the top nuclear negotiators from the North and South met on the sidelines of the annual ASEAN Regional Forum on Friday, their first talks since the six-party negotiations collapsed three years ago. The Norths newly appointed envoy Ri Yong Ho said he and his South Korean counterpart Wi Sung-lac agreed to work together to quickly restart the nuclear talks. We agreed to make efforts to resume the six-party talks soon, Ri told Zgaw NY cannibal cop watched death porn: wife
US President Barack Obama has described critically ill Richard Holbrooke as a towering figure in American foreign policy and said that he was praying for the recovery of the tireless public servant , who is a key member of his Af-Pak team. HT Image 69-year-old Holbrooke, the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, is in critical condition following a surgery yesterday to repair a tear in his aorta. Obama spoke to Holbrooke s wife Kati and told her that he and the First Lady are praying for him. Richard Holbrooke is a towering figure in American foreign policy, a critical member of my Afghani air force 1 stan and Pakistan team and a tireless public servant who has won the admiration of the American people and people around the world, the President said. I know that Secretary of State stanley cup , Hillary Clinton, Admiral Mike Mullen Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , Tom Donilon National Security Adviser , and other members of our team have been with him at George Washington hospital, and we continue to pray for his recovery, and support his family in this difficult time, Obama said in a statement. The top US diplomat was admitted to the intensive care unit of the George Washington University after he fell stanley cup ill at the Foggy Bottom headquarters of the State Department. ... doctors completed surgery to repair a tear in his aorta. He is in critical condition and has been joined by his family, State Department spokesman, P J Crowley, said on Saturday. Holbrooke,