• The details of the draft -- backed by the United States and the other European members of the Security Council -- include calls for an immediate cease-fire, a complete withdrawal of Russian and Georgian forces and participation in mediation.

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  • Elsewhere, the Work and Pensions Minister, Chris Grayling, appears before the European Scrutiny Committee (2.15pm) to talk about the European Council decision on coordination of social security.

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  • Security Council to condemn Iran, Arab and European nations are now trying to get the Security Council to condemn Israel.

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  • In February European members in the Security Council voted together against a lone American veto to denounce illegal Israeli settlements.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • But, at the very least, China would want to maintain a common anti-sanctions front with Russia on the United Nations Security Council ensuring that the American and European embargoes are not supplemented by UN sanctions.

    ECONOMIST: Banyan

  • After his meeting with Jospin, Schroeder was expected to chair a meeting of the Franco-German defence and security council, charged with laying the groundwork for a European rapid reaction force of 60, 000 troops, envisioned by 2003.

    CNN: French assembly approves EU treaty

  • The British, French and German votes in favor of the Palestinians' anti-Israel Security Council resolution last month were the latest sign that the key European governments have adopted openly hostile policies toward Israel.

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  • As two medium-sized European powers, both with permanent seats on the UN Security Council and a legacy of empire, Britain and France are at the same time natural partners and natural rivals.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • "The UN Security Council seat, our membership of the European Union, our leadership in Nato, our nuclear deterrent, our strong armed forces, they are all things that belong to the whole of the United Kingdom, " he said.

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  • But America and the European trio have already started lobbying other governments around the world to slap on harsher sanctions even if the UN Security Council cannot: thoughts have been turning to more bank bans, a bar on investment in Iran's oil and gasfields, keeping its ships from foreign ports, and more.

    ECONOMIST: Diplomacy and Iran

  • He's trying to create a multilateral front to get everybody, our European allies and our Asian friends, particularly those on the Security Council, to all take the same approach toward Iran to impose sanctions multilaterally.

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  • European nations also persuaded the U.S. to abstain from a United Nations Security Council vote last year that sent the issue of Darfur, Sudan, to the International Criminal Court.

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  • Security Council, along with envoys from Turkey, the United Nations, the European Union and the Arab League.

    CNN: Syrians defiant as world powers plan talks

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