His aim is to ease decades of tensions between Muslims and the United States tensions heightened by the war in Iraq and lack of progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

Instead,his goal will be to ease tensions between the United States and the world's Muslims tensions intensified by the Iraq war and a lack of progress in the Middle East peace process.

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

Presidential candidate Ivanov has told his supporters he wants to help overcome nationalistic divisions in Macedonia, which narrowly averted civil war in 2001, following a peace deal between ethnic-Albanian fighters and Macedonian security forces.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22