Clinton departs on Europe, Russia tourUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left for Europe and Russia to pursue Washington's drive to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions and rally more support behind its war in Afghanistan. In a frenetic five-day, six-city tour, Clinton is scheduled to arrive in Zurich on Saturday to watch Armenia and Turkey sign what aides call a "historic" Swiss-brokered deal to normalize normalize to convert a set of data by, for example, converting them to logarithms or reciprocals so that their previous non-normal distribution is converted to a normal one. their relations. She then travels to London, Dublin, Belfast, Moscow and Russia's mainly Muslim city of Kazan. Visiting Ireland and Russia for the first time as chief US diplomat, she will aim to bolster Northern Ireland's reconciliation process and push for a new US-Russia nuclear arms cut deal by a December 5 deadline, aides said. But since September, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan have taken up much of the agenda in Washington and the UN General Assembly in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , and aides said the countries will be high on the list for Clinton's talks in Zurich, London and Moscow. Washington has expressed some hope of eventually getting Tehran to halt its suspect uranium enrichment program since Iran met last week in Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva. with the permanent five veto-wielding members of the UN Security Council -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. -- plus Germany, also known as the P5-plus-1 group. Ahead of the trip Clinton sounded upbeat about her talks next week in Moscow with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and President Dmitry Medvedev, who have raised hopes Russia might consider tougher sanctions against Iran This article outlines economic, trade, scientific and military Sanctions against Iran, which has been imposed by the U.S. government, or under U.S. pressure. Currently the sanctions include a total embargo on dealings with Iran by Americans, threatening the world's oil and gas if it fails to cooperate. In Zurich, Clinton will hold informal talks on Iran with both French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana, a senior State Department official said on condition of anonymity. Clinton "will talk with senior UK officials on a wide range of bilateral and transatlantic issues, including Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan," said Philip Gordon, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs The Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs is a position within the American Department of State that leads the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs charged with implementing American foreign policy in Europe and Eurasia, and with advising the Under . Britain has 9,000 troops in Afghanistan, the second largest deployment after the United States. 
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