The talks had been suspended because of political turmoil over a new constitution, which was approved by a referendum last week.
In a referendum last week, Serbia's voters overwhelmingly rejected foreign mediation.
While the term "military coup" has a lousy ring to it, the Honduran military ejected president Manuel Zelaya from office after he ignored a Supreme Court ruling backed by the Honduran Congress which barred him from holding a referendum this week that would have empowered him to endanger democracy.
Mr Salmond's speech came after legislation on the arrangements for holding the referendum was this week introduced to the Scottish Parliament.
In a referendum held a week ago, people in the Falkland Islands voted overwhelmingly in favour of remaining a UK overseas territory.
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The Greek prime minister, more concerned with his own political survival than the economic stability of the world, has taken the psychotic step of calling for an austerity referendum less than a week after agreeing to the EU rescue plan that was so hard for the rest of the continent to achieve.
But he has since led the Socialists to sweeping victories at regional and European polls, as well as winning this week's referendum.
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An unwise question from the audience about the Danes being great again after last week's referendum brought Mr Maude's wit to the fore.
This week's referendum takes place in accordance with the US-brokered Comprehensive Peace Treaty between the Khartoum government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement signed on January 9, 2005.
The results of the referendum are expected later this week.
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We know from many polls that a vast majority of people want this referendum, we learn next week how many of the MPs have the courage to support their constituents.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Voters in Diyala province -- the district north of Baghdad with a majority Sunni Arab population -- are backing the country's draft constitution, according to early figures released from last week's referendum on the law.
The country's controversial President, Hugo Chavez, who only last week won a referendum enabling him to concentrate more power in the hands of the head of state, struck a similar note in comments he made while conducting the clean-up operation.
Jersey politicians have decided not to set a minimum turnout threshold for next week's reform referendum result.
It would be foolish, even a mere week ahead of a referendum such as this, to predict the outcome.
One, discussed by Mr Samak's cabinet this week, is a referendum on whether the public supports the government or the PAD.
Of the 35 local authorities which have expressed interest in principle, the one closest to doing anything is Edinburgh, which this week started a postal referendum on introducing a two-tier scheme covering both commuters into the city and traffic in its historic centre.
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The DPP platform, reaffirmed last week, openly endorses a referendum leading to formal independence for the island.
Britain's prime minister, Tony Blair, said this week that he plans a referendum on the question after the next election (see article).
In addition, North Dakota's Republican-dominated legislature last week set up a voter referendum for November 2014 which seeks to amend the state constitution to define life as beginning at conception.
Last week, the US called the referendum idea a "setback for democracy".
President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner called this week's two-day referendum a "parody" and maintained that the territory, which Argentina calls Las Malvinas, rightfully belongs to her country.
The referendum itself is preceded by a 16-week formal campaign period, during which limits will apply to the amount of money registered campaigners can spend, to ensure a level playing field for both sides of the debate.
In their amendment, the MPs state that they "respectfully regret that an EU referendum bill was not included" in last week's the Queen's Speech, which lays out the government's legislative plans for the year ahead.
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At this time more than ever -- in the week that Cameron has promised Britain a referendum on its EU membership -- Europe's future depends on Franco-German unity of purpose and action.
Mr Nazarbayev, who has led Kazakhstan for 20 years, said last week he did not support plans for the referendum.
The president's critics have raised the 1.2m signatures needed to ensure a referendum on it, and a row was raging this week over the zeal of the official electoral-procedures office to sabotage the process.
This week's state election will also be a referendum on Chancellor Merkel's handling of the Euro crisis.
Whereas President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a sure bet just 10 days ago, the race has closed this past week, in what is clearly turning into a referendum on his four years in office.
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