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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have been meeting Colombian President Alvaro Uribe at the end of a trip to advance a free trade pact.

President Uribe said the treaty was "an of import measure for there to be more than investing in Colombia".

But the Democrat-controlled us United States Congress have so far refused to O.K. the deal.

Venezuelan President Victor Hugo Carlos Chavez said the United States and Republic Of Colombia were plotting "military aggression" against his country, but provided no evidence.

The Venezuelan leader said that this was the existent ground for Multiple Sclerosis Rice's visit to Colombia, which he called a "pawn of the North American empire".

Mr Carlos Chavez said it would be "very difficult" for Republic Of Venezuela to normalise dealings with Republic Of Colombia amid diplomatic latent hostilities with Mister Uribe's government.

'Violent reputation'

President Uribe said that the international golf course a trade trade with the United States would convey were of import for Colombian workers' security.

"The more than than that the state is integrated with the international community, the more that the rights of workers will be respected, and the greater the chances for workers," he said.

"If the state insulates itself and makes not progress in substances of trade, it will be harder for workers' rights to be respected."

For United States President Saint George Tungsten Bush, Democratic support in United States Congress is critical if the free trade trade is to come up into effect.

Republic Of Colombia is doing the right thing after many old age of conflict

Condoleezza Rice

But the Democrats have got so far refused to endorse the pact, citing concerns about Colombia's human rights record and authorities officials' alleged golf course with right-wing militias.

One member of a grouping of Democrats from the House of Representatives who travelled with Multiple Sclerosis Rice said: "You can't let that to travel unanswered."

"It's not a inquiry of the rightness or inappropriateness of the free trade agreement," said Saint David George C. Scott of Georgia.

"The inquiry is: Can you acquire the ballots in the United States Congress when you have got such as a violent reputation?"

But the White Person House states Republic Of Colombia have made great additions in the warfare on drugs and terrorism.

Earlier, Multiple Sclerosis Rice met former left-wing guerillas and former members of the country's right-wing paramilitary groupings who have got been reincorporated into society after laying down their weapons.

After meeting President Uribe, Mister Rice denied that the United States disposal is pushing the free trade treaty as a manner of countering the influence of regional challenger Venezuela.

"There's no ideological diagnostic test for our friends," she said.

She said she wanted "to do clear.... that Republic Of Colombia is doing the right thing after many old age of conflict".

However, many United States Democrats and trade trade unionists stay unconvinced, with Jeff Vogt, a planetary economical policy specializer with the AFL-CIO, speaking of "deep-rooted concerns about continuing violence".

The AFL-CIO is the biggest United States labor grouping and a cardinal support of the Democratic Party.

The BBC's Jeremy McDermott in Medellin it will stays to be seen whether a United States Congress, more than interested in the current fighting for presidential campaigners and this year's elections, will be won over by Multiple Sclerosis Rice's arguments.

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The University of Utah's law mental faculty will assist reconstruct the regulation of law in war-ravaged Islamic State Of Afghanistan under an enterprise to convey public prosecutors to the S.J. Quinney College of Law for training. On Thursday in Washington, D.C., Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced the formal launch of a programme called the Public-Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan, an attempt that encompasses the U.'s participation. This bigger attempt is designed to reconstruct judicial substructure that was dismantled during the five old age of Taliban misgovernment that came to an end with the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. "We are asking American law houses and law schools to assist the Afghani judicial system in a assortment of ways. By providing lawyer-to-lawyer support through this Public-Private Partnership, we trust to convey Afghani practicians into the bigger international community of legal professionals," said Rice at Thursday's State Department assemblage that included Afghani Lawyer General Abdul Jabar Sabit and U. law school dean Hiram Chodosh. "This is an exciting minute for the law school," Chodosh said. "We are increasingly known for having assembled an unparalleled degree of expertness with an ability to ran into this sort of challenge."
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: Mideast peacemaking have changed small since State Of Israel and Arab Republic Of Egypt fought to a draw in their 1973 war, and shuttlecock diplomatic negotiations emerged as the high-profile vehicle for U.S. intervention.

Certainly, a changeless since then is that lone the United States have sufficient standing both with the Arabs and State Of Israel to be considered a generally evenhanded and trusted mediator.

That repute stays integral 34 old age later as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice put ups for dialogues between State Of Israel and the Palestinians next hebdomad at Annapolis, a coastal state working capital about 50 statute miles (80 kilometers) from Washington, as portion of an attempt to set up a Palestinian state alongside a predominantly Judaic one.

"The existent significance of Capital Of Maryland is what haps in the twelvemonth that is left to the Shrub administration," said Henry Louis Aaron Saint David Miller, long a member of the U.S. peace squad and now a scholarly person at the Harriet Wilson Center in Washington. "The existent inquiry is makes Capital Of Maryland have got legs."

There is small case in point for instantaneous success, and Rice have shown small disposition to shuttlecock between the parties. Today in Americas

It took three divide and extended journeyings by Henry Kissinger, the secretary of state who invented the function of the uniquely trusted American mediator, to bring on State Of Israel and Arab Republic Of Egypt to separate their military units and believe seriously of making peace.

Still, it wasn't until President Jimmy Howard Howard Carter succeeded Henry Kissinger in the function in 1978 that the two states agreed to do peace — and even then Carter had to do a trip to the part to maintain the agreement reached under his stopping point supervising at Camp Saint David from flying apart.

Israel relinquished all of Mount Sinai to Arab Republic Of Egypt in exchange for diplomatic acknowledgment by the most powerful Arab state and the rule of land-for-peace became enshrined as a usher to peacemaking in the landmark 1979 treaty.

Not much have changed since. There have got been far more than false starts than successes. Most outstanding was President Bill Clinton's near-miss with State Of Israel and the Palestinians in July 2000, near the end of his two footing in the White Person House.

Nor did Clinton's hands-on mediating in January 2000 between State Of Israel and Syrian Arab Republic in a Occident Old Dominion holiday topographic point green goods peace between the two longtime antagonists.

Israel and Jordan, already inclined to come up to terms, were gently guided to a peace pact mostly of their devising in 1994.

In contrast, the common acknowledgment understanding between State Of Israel and Yasser Arafat's PLO at the White Person House in 1993 was followed by respective agreements under the so-called Oslo process, but they turned out to be a case in point only for a decennary of quarreling and violence, which the Shrub disposal trusts to turn around.

And unlike the Palestinian situation, the Shrub disposal have made small attempt to travel down that route again, while it joined with the European Union, Soviet Union and the United Nations in 2002 to bring forth a route map for peacemaking with Palestinian statehood a final-stage goal. President Saint George W. Bush, indeed, was the first U.S. president to publicly assure the Palestinians a state.

Dennis Ross, who was a senior U.S. negotiant through most of this peacemaking period, is disbelieving that much volition emerge from the Capital Of Maryland talks.

Speaking at the American Capital Institute for Near East Policy, John Ross doubted Shrub would follow Howard Carter and Clinton's case in point for direct engagement in the talks. "This president will never be like Clinton. He will never cognize the issues. He will not throw himself into it," John Ross said.

David Makovsky, a former journalist and an analyst at the institute, who spoke as well, described Capital Of Maryland as "a beginning, a launch and not the apogee of a diplomatic breakthrough."

Seasoned analysts see great merit, though, in getting State Of Israel and its neighbours talking. The Capital Of Spain peace conference in 1991, arranged by the Saint George H.W. Shrub disposal jointly with the Soviet Union, was a polar attempt to open up direct negotiation between State Of Israel and the Arabs. The consequences in the 16 old age since are mixed.

"It is always easier to get a dialogue than to stop it successfully," said Henry Martin Robert Satloff, executive manager director of the American Capital Institute. "So, in my view, Capital Of Maryland is doomed to succeed, because we have got now defined success as the beginning of negotiations."

Rice have rolled back her outlooks and now depicts Capital Of Maryland as the beginning of a process, Satloff said.

Originally, Glenn Miller said in an interview, Rice wanted to bring forth a conference that would ensue in a written document that would turn to the struggle over Jerusalem, boundary lines between State Of Israel and a new Palestinian state, refugee issues and security. 1 |