Member states are angry at Russia and its delayed response to its promise to withdraw troops from the region.
Early last week, the Syrian government agreed to Tuesday's deadline to withdraw troops.
"The debate now is not over whether to withdraw troops, " said Sen.
He has asked Thailand to withdraw troops from the south, to give an amnesty for insurgents and to declare the area a special administrative zone.
The initiative came after Israel said it planned to continue to withdraw troops from six Palestinian towns, declaring its mission to root out terrorist suspects accomplished.
Sudan claims ownership for the region, and lodged complaints with the United Nations and the African Union to pressure South Sudan to withdraw troops from its territory.
They also agreed to withdraw troops from their border area.
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Meanwhile, under international pressure, Netanyahu reversed his previous opposition to the 1993 peace accords and agreed to withdraw troops from most of the West Bank town of Hebron.
And since you've been very clear about a timetable to withdraw all combat troops from Iraq within 16 months, I wonder what's your timetable to withdraw troops eventually from Afghanistan?
Sudan also claims ownership of Heglig and lodged complaints with the United Nations Security Council and the African Union on Wednesday, urging them to pressure South Sudan to withdraw troops from its territory.
When asked about turning over security responsibility to Afghan forces next year, Rasmussen denied it was an acceleration of the transition, saying the plan all along was to withdraw troops in 2014 after shifting the lead security role to Afghan forces.
It calls for both countries to unconditionally withdraw troops to their own territory and "immediately cease all hostilities".
The two leaders were yet to meet but their commanders had agreed to withdraw their troops and life in the capital was returning to normal.
The US plans to withdraw combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
The only solution, the paper said, was for Israel to withdraw its troops.
Instead, the U.S. President persuaded Sharif to withdraw his troops--to the military's outrage.
The members were debating whether to withdraw American troops from Iraq immediately.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his Labor government were elected in a landslide victory last year on a campaign pledge to withdraw combat troops by mid-2008.
France plans to withdraw its troops from Mali next month, with West African countries expected to take over in the run-up to elections due in July.
His promise to withdraw combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2012, a year early, may have irritated the Americans, but it met with French approval.
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In May 2003, Uganda was the last of the foreign countries to withdraw its troops from Congo, allowing the new government accord to be put into force in June.
New fighting in the region comes as the Pentagon planned to withdraw some troops from Iraq this fall, and to rely more on the Baghdad government and its security forces.
British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said the resolution, which will now be sent to New York for consideration by the council, meets all of NATO's demands on Yugoslavia to withdraw its troops from Kosovo.
This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note stating that, unless we hear from them by 11 o'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us.
Instead of the outright ban on Zimbabwe diamond sales recommended by the World Diamond Council last year, the Kimberley Process decided in November simply to suspend sales for six months to give the government another chance to comply with its standards and to withdraw all troops from the area.
Commentators have suggested Mr Galloway attracted many Asian voters because of his opposition to the war in Iraq and his call for troops to withdraw from Afghanistan immediately.
Angola, also a former Portuguese colony, issued a statement earlier this week stating its intention to unilaterally withdraw its troops.
In his statement, Mr Hague told MPs that a commitment to withdraw British combat troops from Afghanistan by 2015 is "the right position for this country".
The improvement comes as the United States prepares to withdraw its combat troops from population centers in 2009 from all of Iraq by the end of 2011.
Most think Mr Obama is doing a good job in Iraq, and a plurality think his plan to withdraw most American troops by the end of 2010 is about right.
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