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Israeli settlement limits may help peace effort: U.S.U.S. Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell said Washington was still pushing for a quick resumption of stalled peace talks without any preconditions and hoped the Israeli offer could help create a more conducive atmosphere. "It... In this article: United States, George Mitchell, Benjamin Netanyahu, Jerusalem, West Bank, Washington, State Department, Hillary Clinton, and Mahmoud Abbas |
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Kansas City Star | November 17, 2009
Palestinians, US, UK criticize Jerusalem plan
...shows that it is meaningless to resume negotiations when this goes on." </p><p>In Washington, the White House and State Department called the Israeli plan "dismaying." </p><p>A statement from White House spokesman Robert Gibbs criticized...
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washingtonpost.com | 5 days ago
Honduras de facto leader says will step aside
...for the presidential election. "This will allow some breathing space for the process in Honduras to go forward," State Department spokesman Robert Wood told a news briefing in Washington. Zelaya, who has taken refuge at the...
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Sydney Morning Herald - World | 4 days ago
Japan admits secret pact: reports
...the newspaper reports said. A confidential US State Department memo prepared in 1960 for then secretary of state Christian Herter said Washington had to consult Japan on the "introduction of nuclear weapons." But it said that the United...
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UN committee targets Iran's rights violations
...- 118 - did not support it. U.S. State Department spokesman Robert Wood, speaking in Washington, welcomed the result, calling it "the largest vote margin on such a resolution on Iran in the U.N. ever." The resolution which criticized...
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Washington, D.C. (pronounced: /ˈwɒʃɪŋtən ˌdiːˈsiː/), formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790. The City of Washington was originally a separate municipality within the Territory of Columbia until an act of Congress in 1871 effectively merged the City and the Territory into a single entity called the District of Columbia. It is for this reason that the city, while legally named the District of Columbia, is known as Washington, D.C. The city is located on the north bank of the Potomac River and is bordered by the states of Virginia to the southwest and Maryland to the other sides. The District has a resident population of 591,833; however, because of commuters from the surrounding suburbs, its population rises to over one million during the workweek. The Washington Metropolitan Area, of which the District is a part, has a population of 5.3 million, the eighth-largest metropolitan area in the country.
The United States Congress has supreme authority over Washington, D.C.; residents of the city therefore have less self-governance than residents of the states. The District has a non-voting at-large Congressional delegate, but no senators. D.C. residents could not vote in presidential elections until the ratification of the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1961.
- Name:
- District of Columbia
- Motto:
- Justitia Omnibus(Justice for All)
- Founding Date:
- July 16, 1790
- Total Area (sq. mi):
- 68.3
- Total Area (km):
- 177.0
- Land Area (sq mi):
- 61.4
- Land Area (km):
- 159.0
- Water Area (sq mi):
- 6.9
- Water Area (km):
- 18.0
- Elevation (ft):
- 0–409
- Elevation (m):
- 0–125
- Time Zone:
- EST
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