Nigeria has declared eight foreign hostages attempted to save

Abuja (Reuters)-the federal Government of Nigeria has declared he was doing whatever he could to ensure the eight foreigners taken hostage by guerrilla groups in the northern part of the country was freed without injury.

Minister of Foreign Affairs reveals that on Olugbenga Ashiru Saturday (4/3), when he met with the Abkhaz from France Laurent Fabius at the Nnamdi Azikiwe international airport, Abuja.

The Nigerian Minister said that effort will include the payment of a ransom because that is left-back with government policy.

Ashiru told his guest of Nigeria will be the main target of regional terror suspects if there is no intervention of France and ECOWAS troops in crisis in Mali, according to the Xinhua report--monitored Between in Jakarta, on Sunday night.

"We will do whatever possible to ensure we are able to liberate the hostages as part of our own policy, we will not pay ransom to the perpetrators of terror but we will do whatever possible to ensure that terror suspects freed their hostages without doing actions that harm them," she added.

Ashiru told reporters his meeting with Minister of France who was visiting that aims to examine the relationship between them.

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Minister of Foreign Affairs visited the U.S. to Asia in April

U.S. Secretary Of State John Kerry (REUTERS/Jacquelyn Martin/Pool)

... confirms the Government's commitment to continue to expand and improve the economy, security and u.s. strategic interests in the Asia-Pasirik. "

Washington (Reuters)-United States Secretary of State John Kerry will do in his first visit to Asia in mid-April, an official announced Thursday.

North Korea is expected to be the main agenda during the visit.

Kerry will visit South Korea, Japan and China after attending the ministerial meeting of the G8 Foreign Ministers in London on 10 and 11 April, said a spokesman for the U.s. State Department, Victoria Nuland, the AFP report.

Minister of Foreign Affairs AS it will "discuss in full the issues of bilateral, multilateral and regional economic cooperation as well as the environment," said Nuland.

North Korea nuclear test last month that increases tension on the Korea Peninsula is expected to dominate the agenda of the talks, as well as the issue concerns a matter of hacking the Internet originating from China.

Climate change, with China as one of the biggest greenhouse gas emitters in the world, will also be discussed in the meetings.

"The Foreign Minister will continue to assert the Government's commitment to continue to expand and improve the economy, security and u.s. strategic interests in the Asia-Pasirik," said Nuland.

Kerry "can't wait for a return visit to Asia," he added.

John Kerry, the former US senator who took over the post of Foreign Minister from Hillary Clinton on Feb. 1, has done his first foreign visit to U.S. ally countries in Europe and the Gulf.

Nuland also announced that Kerry will take part in a meeting of ASEAN Foreign Ministers in Brunei in June and at the same time will make a visit to the Southeast Asian countries. (T008/M014)

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AS Foreign Minister in Riyadh to discuss Iran and Syria

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We thank the American commitment to Kerry with respect to the security of the region ... "

Riyadh (Reuters)-United States Secretary of State John Kerry Sunday arrived in the capital of Saudi Arabia for talks with the Gulf monarchy of Iran and Syria in a deadly conflict that are being churned out.

Kerry, in his first trip to the region since taking over as Foreign Minister, attending a dinner with the Foreign Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council, a group of six Gulf monarchies, including Saudi Arabia, AFP reported.

On Monday he will hold separate talks with each of the GCC countries.

"We thank the American commitment to Kerry with respect to the security of the region and we will share our concern about relations with Iran and developments in Syria," said Bahrain's Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled al-Khalifa at a press conference after meeting with five GCC partners.

Some oil-rich kingdoms of the GCC, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, have supported the rebellion in the region of Syria, while Iran supported the regime remained loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.

Kerry arrived in Riyadh after a two-day visit to Cairo where he urged Egypt's political factions to bury their differences and unite for the sake of helping revive the country's economy.

After Riyadh, Kerry will go to Abu Dhabi on Monday and then on to Qatar. (AK)

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Israel's former Foreign Minister was convicted of corruption

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Jerusalem (Reuters)-former Foreign Minister of Israel, Avigdor Lieberman, disidang in the Jerusalem Court on corruption charges and breach of trust, Sunday.

The Council dealt with the three judges, who according to the plan opened at 12 noon GMT (7: 00 pm EST), with Lieberman declared sure would be free of all charges and returned to assume the post of Foreign Minister.

Mid-December, the Attorney General of Israel, Judah, Weinstei said he was accusing Lieberman with two violations of the promotion of former Ambassador to Israel, Belarus Zeev Ben Aryeh.

Liebermean soon resigned from his cabinet position with regard to cases that occurred in October 2008 when it became a member of Parliament.

According to the indictment, Lieberman accused told police that Israel was Aryeh contacted their counterparts in Belarus to help the investigation of cases of the case.

He then allegedly sought to reward for one position in Aryeh Latvia.

Lieberman's hard wing has been investigated by the police several times since 1996, denied the allegations against him tuuduhan, and says he was defending himself in court skan.

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Peres defends Abbas after Israeli foreign minister's attack

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Israel's President Shimon Peres (L) meets actor Jason Alexander at the president's residence in Jerusalem October 25, 2011.

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JERUSALEM | Tue Oct 25, 2011 12:09pm EDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli President Shimon Peres came to the defense of Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday after Israel's far-right foreign minister called the Palestinian president an obstacle to peace.

"Abbas and (Palestinian) Prime Minister (Salam) Fayyad are serious leaders that want peace and are working to prevent violence and extremism in our region," said Peres, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

"We must continue to negotiate peace with them in order to achieve full peace that will end this long conflict," he said in public remarks during a meeting with "Seinfeld" actor Jason Alexander, a member of "One Voice," an international movement promoting a two-state solution.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who heads an ultranationalist party in the governing coalition, said in a briefing to reporters on Monday that Abbas was blocking any progress toward peace.

"If there is an obstacle that could be removed it's Abu Mazen," he said, referring to Abbas and calling on him to resign.

"He threatens he will hand back the keys," Lieberman said, referring to the Western-backed Abbas's warnings in the past that he would quit unless a statehood deal could be achieved. "It's not a threat, it's a blessing."

There was no indication that Lieberman's fiery remarks reflected any change in Israeli government policy, and they elicited no response from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu has called on Abbas to resume negotiations, which collapsed 13 months ago in a dispute over Israeli settlement building in the occupied West Bank, and abandon a unilateral bid for U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state.

Lieberman's remarks drew Palestinian anger and condemnation by a spokesman for U.N. Middle East envoy Robert Serry, and from European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, on the eve of a new push by international mediators for renewed talks.

Maja Kocijancic, a spokeswoman for Ashton, said on Tuesday Lieberman's remarks were "regrettably not helpful to create the environment of trust conducive to negotiations."

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told Voice of Palestine Radio, "we consider this tantamount to a call for the physical assassination of (Abbas)."

"This is criminal incitement. We called the American administration, we sat with our friends in the Russian Federation and the European Union," Erekat said.

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators were due to meet separately in Jerusalem on Wednesday with representatives of the Quartet of Middle East peace negotiators -- the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia.

Expectations were low in Israel and the Palestinian Territories that the indirect talks could lead to a resumption of face-to-face negotiations between the two sides.

(Writing by Jeffrey Heller Additional reporting by Allyn Fisher Ilan in Jerusalem, Justyna Pawlak in Brussels and Tom Perry in Ramallah)

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Romney Channels Bush on Foreign Policy

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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney chose the 10th anniversary of the Bush administration's post-9/11 Afghanistan invasion to deliver the first major foreign policy speech of his 2012 campaign. With Romney hoping to set himself apart from President Obama, his speech was almost as much of a reminder of President George W. Bush's policies as the anniversary itself.

Channeling the well-worn Republican theme of "American exceptionalism," Romney's plan, as outlined Friday at the Citadel in South Carolina, centers on a proactive approach to foreign policy. [See our collection of political cartoons on Afghanistan.]

"This century must be an American century. In an American century, America has the strongest economy and the strongest military in the world. In an American century, America leads the free world and the free world leads the entire world," Romney said. "America is not destined to be one of several equally balanced global powers. America must lead the world, or someone else will."

He spoke of the threat of Islamic fundamentalism and warned of the dangers of regimes with "anti-American visions" like Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba. His policy will also be guided by a belief that "America must promote open markets, representative government, and respect for human rights."

More like Bush and unlike the more libertarian wing of his party, he also suggested a willingness to keep defense budgets high, bulking up the U.S. Navy by speeding up the pace of shipbuilding from nine ships a year to 15. In his first 100 days in the Oval Office, he would reverse cuts passed under Obama on national missile defense too. [Read more about defense cuts.]On Afghanistan, Romney repeated his view that decisions about troops should be made by military leaders on the ground, rather than by Washington. He plans to issue a review of the Afghanistan transition upon taking office. "The force level necessary to secure our gains and complete our mission successfully is a decision I will make free from politics," he said.

Romney seemed most eager to attack Obama's recent foreign policy, echoing the criticism in Washington regarding the president's lack of clarity and vision. "It is far too easy for a president to jump from crisis to crisis, dealing with one hot spot after another. But to do so is to be shaped by events rather than to shape events," Romney said. "To avoid this paralyzing seduction of action rather than progress, a president must have a broad vision of the world coupled with clarity of purpose."

According to his top foreign policy advisors, which include several former Bush administration officials, one thing that contrasts him from both Bush and Obama is his economics-based approach to Latin America, which he says would "contrast the benefits of democracy, free trade, and free enterprise against the material and moral bankruptcy of the Venezuelan and Cuban model." [Read about the pending trade deals in Colombia and Panama.]

While surely his anti-Obama, pro-American message will resonate with lots of Republicans, he might have a harder time winning over the more fiscally-minded segments of the right, like some in the Tea Party or those who prefer a more isolationist strategy, like that espoused by his 2012 foe Texas Rep. Ron Paul.

As for getting supporters of Obama's foreign policy strategy on his side, Romney doesn't seem to care. "If you do not want America to be the strongest nation on Earth, I am not your president," he said. "You have that president today."

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