Turning to international news, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman denies a Reuters news agency report that North Korea told China that it is prepared to carry out more nuclear tests, Xinhua reports.
North Korea responded swiftly, with a statement from its foreign minister carried by state news agency KCNA condemning the "extremely unfair" resolution as a violation of sovereign rights.
BBC: North Korea in nuclear warning after UN rocket resolution
Bahrain's Supreme Judiciary Council said he did not meet the conditions stipulated in its criminal procedures law to hand over the accused to foreign countries, the Bahrain News Agency reported.
"Amid this kind of atmosphere, our stance is that it will be difficult to hold a productive discussion and Yun decided not to visit Japan this time, " an unidentified foreign ministry official told Yonhap news agency.
However, on the Web site of Iran's state-owned Islamic Republic News Agency, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi rebutted remarks by Rumsfeld that al Qaeda leaders are in Iran, adding that his nation has no links to the "fundamentalist and violent" network.
"We are naturally shocked, " Zahurul Huq , a spokesman for the Bangladeshi foreign ministry, told the French news agency AFP in Dhaka.
The semi-official Fars news agency quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian as saying the raid will have significant implications for Israel.
Local press reported that the government was considering military intervention to help quell the violence, though state-run Anatolian News Agency said the foreign ministry denied it.
Itar-Tass news agency quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying there was also a secret section to the list with more names, as the US list had.
Earlier Saturday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov told Interfax news agency that it would be premature to speak of a role for Russia in a possible U.N. contingent.
The meeting is aimed at allowing Putin to "feel the heat surrounding the Iranian problem and see how this issue is perceived in Tehran, " Yuri Ushakov, a former U.S. ambassador who now serves as a Russian foreign policy adviser, told the news agency.
CNN: Report: Putin, Ahmadinejad to meet before nuclear talks
Meanwhile, in Tunis, the government charged that Libya's rocket-firing at Tunisia is a violation of its sovereignty and puts citizens and infrastructure at risk, even though Tripoli pledged several times not to fire in the direction of Tunisia, the foreign ministry source told the Tunisian News Agency.
Militants, who held the site for four days, had told a Mauritanian news agency they had seven foreign hostages.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency, citing unnamed Foreign Ministry officials, says the group were flown back to Pyongyang on Tuesday.
"The decision to abolish the agreement on the military air base, Manas, has been made, and there is no turning back from this, " Foreign Minister Kadyrbek Sarbayev told a Kyrgyz news agency.
Thijs van Son, a spokesman for the Dutch foreign ministry, told the Associated Press news agency that travel warnings for Benghazi had been upgraded as the ministry had "reason to believe there was a serious threat".
In a statement attributed to a spokesman for North Korea's Foreign Ministry and published by its state news agency, North Korea said the origin of the current escalation of tensions was the imposition of sanctions in response to its December satellite launch.
State-run APS news agency says 12 Algerian and foreign workers have died since rescue efforts began on Thursday.
BBC: Algeria siege: Hostage nations concerned over situation
Further, the wire services will no longer be permitted to directly solicit subscribers and all foreign economic news will be routed through the Chinese agency.
"The operations of the Russian Federation's Consulate General in Aleppo have been suspended, " the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement, the news agency reported.
Fars news agency reported that former deputy foreign minister Mohsen Aminzadeh, former government spokesman Abdollah Ramazanzadeh, former senior lawmaker Mohsen Mirdamadi and former Industry Minister Behzad Nabavi were among the defendants.
"The threat concerns all civilised countries, " AFP news agency quotes Mali's Foreign Minister Tieman Coulibaly as saying as he arrived for the international support group for Mali in Brussels on Tuesday.
In a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency, the North Korean Foreign Ministry called the U.N. condemnation of the nation's April 5 rocket launch a gross infringement on North Korea's sovereignty.
CNN: U.S. issues warning to North Korea for expelling inspectors
"Mr Zygier went off to live in another country, for 10 years, took out citizenship of that country, worked for its government, " Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr was quoted by AFP news agency as saying.
BBC: Australia says Prisoner X worked for Israeli government
Egypt's state news agency Mena reported that the Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit was monitoring Mr Mwanawasa's treatment in Sharm el-Sheikh, and that President Hosni Mubarak had visited him in hospital.
The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency quoted an official source at the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry.
Benin's Foreign Affairs Minister Nassirou Arifari Bako told the Associated Press news agency that Mr Bozize had asked for asylum but "nothing has been decided yet".
"If everything is confirmed, this signifies that the fight against terrorist groups is a necessity, " said French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, quoted by the Associated Press news agency.
Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency on Monday cited the comments of Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and Ala'eddin Boroujerdi, head of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission.
"When civilians are killed in Syria and the Syrian regime increases its cruelty to innocent people, it should not be expected for Turkey and the Arab League to be silent, " said Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, according to the state Anatolia news agency.
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