As President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao get ready to meet in Washington, political pressure is again building in the U.S. to push China on those issues.

Colin Barnett raised the case at the end of a business-focused meeting with the mayor of Shanghai.

President Bush will also meet privately with Mr. Putin on Sunday at his home in Sochi - a Russian resort town on the Black Sea, just across from Romania.

President Bush's first meeting with the new Pakistani president took place in New York City, where both men are attending the U.N. General Assembly.

Hill met several North Korean officials, including Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun and a senior army general in a visit spanning three days.

Hill met with North Korea's Kim Kye Kwan earlier Thursday to try to resolve issues from a meeting Wednesday.

S. and North Korean officials gather in Geneva for talks that Washington says are aimed at determining whether Pyongyang is serious about returning to nuclear disarmament talks.

Kouchner was speaking just before heading to Tbilisi with his Finnish counterpart Alexander Stubb for a meeting with the Georgian president.

India and Vietnam, whose leaders meet today in New Delhi, are squaring up for a fight with China over the right of a state-owned Indian oil and gas company to explore in disputed waters near Vietnam.

Fourth, new communication channels have made the China-EU leaders' meeting more energetic.

When asked about the meeting (by a journalist friend of mine), Cunhal said that he would confirm it took place only if Antunes didn’t deny it – if Antunes did deny it, then it never took place.

Germans still recall vividly George Bush's meeting with Gerhard Schröder in Mainz in February 2005.

Clinton flew to Sanya for the meeting with Dai after attending the East Asia Summit in Hanoi.

The recent political unrest in Tunisia and Egypt “makes our meeting even more timely and the issues more urgent,” Clinton said.

She said talks also outlined plans for joint efforts in facing a variety of other global concerns.

As for when the next round of meeting will be held, the two sides are in communication and I have no information at present.

Cheney told the Iraqi leaders with whom he met that they must be aggressive in seeking solutions to these matters.

Mr. Cheney met Wednesday in Baku with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev, saying the United States has a deep and abiding interest in the security of the Caucasus.

The foreign ministers of India and Pakistan are meeting in Islamabad to revive bilateral dialogue, their first meeting since the Mumbai terrorist attacks derailed peace negotiations two years ago.

India has come under intense pressure in recent days from the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, and President Barack Obama's climate change envoy, Todd Stern, who met ministers in New Delhi.