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Tillerson Cites North Korea's ‘Restraint’ as a Step Toward Talks

EghtesadOnline: U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson went out of his way Tuesday to note that North Korea hadn’t carried out “provocative acts” since the UN Security Council imposed new sanctions on the country, saying that restraint might lead to negotiations over its nuclear arsenal.
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Publish Date:23/August/2017 | 04:37

Trump administration sends conflicting signals on Russia sanctions

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump grudgingly accepted new congressional sanctions on Russia, the top U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday, remarks in contrast with those of Vice President Mike Pence, who said the bill showed Trump and Congress speaking "with a unified voice."
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Publish Date:02/August/2017 | 05:03

Tillerson says he and Trump disagree over Iran nuclear deal

EghtesadOnline: U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson acknowledged on Tuesday that he and President Donald Trump disagree over the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, and said the two men discuss how to use the international agreement to advance administration policies.
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Publish Date:02/August/2017 | 04:59

Saudi Alliance Says Qatar's Action Not Enough to End Crisis

EghtesadOnline: Qatar is falling short in its efforts to counter terrorism, the Saudi-led alliance said, an apparent setback to U.S. mediation efforts after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged the bloc to ease its seven-week boycott of the Persian Gulf nation.
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Publish Date:25/July/2017 | 24:14

Unrest bubbles among Trump's key foreign policy aides: sources

EghtesadOnline: Frustration is mounting among leading foreign policy officials in President Donald Trump's administration as they chafe at some policy and bureaucratic defeats and complain they lack independence to do their jobs, officials say.
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Publish Date:25/July/2017 | 05:26

Foreign Ministry spox refutes Zarif-Tillerson meeting

EghtesadOnline: Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi said Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had no plan to hold talks with his American counterpart Rex W. Tillerson.
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Publish Date:22/July/2017 | 05:00

U.S. Says Iran Meets the Letter But Not Spirit of Nuclear Deal

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump’s administration said Iran is complying with the deal to curb its nuclear program, even as White House officials argued that the Islamic Republic continues to engage in actions that destabilize the Middle East and isn’t living up to the spirit of the pact.
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Publish Date:18/July/2017 | 04:58

Tillerson Sees Qatar Crisis Lingering With Talks Elusive

EghtesadOnline: U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said a dispute between a Saudi Arabian-led bloc and Qatar may last “quite a while” as the two sides still refuse to speak to each other directly and are no closer to resolving the key demands made after the crisis started.
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Publish Date:14/July/2017 | 10:29

Qatar, U.S. Sign Terror Pact as U.S. Searches for Persian Gulf Deal

EghtesadOnline: Qatar and the U.S. on Tuesday struck a pact to strengthen Qatari action against terrorist funding, an issue at the center of the diplomatic crisis in the Persian Gulf that has pit longstanding American allies against each other.
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Publish Date:12/July/2017 | 04:22

Tillerson Says Syria Progress Could Be Replicated With Turkey

EghtesadOnline: The U.S. and Turkey are beginning to rebuild trust and could come to an agreement about northern Syria, where the U.S. backs a Kurdish militia that Turkey considers a terrorist organization, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told staff at the U.S. consulate-general in Istanbul.
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Publish Date:10/July/2017 | 24:24

Trump Raises Election Meddling in First Meeting With Putin

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump led off his first meeting with Vladimir Putin by presenting the Russian president with concerns that his government interfered with the 2016 U.S. election, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said.
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Publish Date:08/July/2017 | 04:16

Tillerson Says Trump, Putin to Seek Common Ground Over Syria

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump will raise the possibility of U.S. and Russian cooperation on easing the Syria conflict when he meets his Russian counterpart in Hamburg, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said.
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Publish Date:06/July/2017 | 19:45

U.S. Says North Korea Rocket Was ICBM, Warns of UN Action

EghtesadOnline: The U.S. confirmed a rocket launched by North Korea on July 4 was an intercontinental ballistic missile, with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson calling it a “new escalation of the threat” to the U.S. and its allies that would be brought before the United Nations Security Council.
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Publish Date:05/July/2017 | 04:51

Overruling diplomats, U.S. to drop Iraq, Myanmar from child soldiers' list

EghtesadOnline: In a highly unusual intervention, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to remove Iraq and Myanmar from a U.S. list of the world's worst offenders in the use of child soldiers, disregarding the recommendations of State Department experts and senior U.S. diplomats, U.S. officials said.
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Publish Date:24/June/2017 | 11:46

Saudi Demands of Qatar Test for Tillerson's Persian Gulf Strategy

EghtesadOnline: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson insisted this week that Saudi Arabia spell out exactly what Qatar must do to end the diplomatic and economic isolation its neighbors imposed. Now the Saudis have answered, and the results probably aren’t what the top U.S. diplomat had in mind.
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Publish Date:24/June/2017 | 04:52

Tillerson Signals Impatience With Saudi-Led Allies Over Qatar

EghtesadOnline: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ’s spokeswoman signaled his patience is wearing thin as a dispute between a Saudi Arabia-led coalition and Qatar drags into a third week, saying the U.S. is “mystified” that the group hasn’t done more to show how the country can end its isolation.
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Publish Date:21/June/2017 | 03:59