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RUSSIA
U.S. security adviser visits for arms talks
Russia and the United States are scrambling to address disagreements over a new nuclear arms reduction treaty with a little more than a month left until the existing agreement between the Cold War adversaries expires.
Both sides expressed optimism Thursday at the end of a day of negotiations in Moscow between U.S. national security adviser James L. Jones and Russia's foreign minister, its Security Council head and a top Kremlin foreign policy adviser.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said in televised remarks that he was sure that Jones's "successful" visit would help forge a new arms reduction treaty. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said "intensive efforts" would be required to reach an accord, but he struck a generally optimistic tone.
-- Associated Press
HONDURAS
U.S. sits in on talks; Brazil taken to court
Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya and de facto rulers in power since a June coup returned to the negotiating table Thursday under pressure from U.S. officials, who said time is running out to resolve the political crisis.
A team led by Assistant Secretary of State Thomas A. Shannon Jr. and Dan Restrepo, Washington's special assistant for Western Hemisphere affairs, is in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, for a last-ditch effort to broker a resolution. Zelaya pulled his negotiators out of the most recent round of talks last week.
Shannon called the situation "difficult," but in a sign that the United States is stepping up its involvement, he sat in on Thursday's talks and said his delegation would stay on an extra day.
On Wednesday, Honduras's de facto government, which is not recognized internationally, filed a case against Brazil at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, saying it has interfered in Honduras's internal affairs by sheltering Zelaya at its embassy in Tegucigalpa.
