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...this month. But after three days of marathon sessions, negotiators struggled to find wording for a final joint communiqué. Officials acknowledged that they had failed to make headway in getting Pyongyang to address the international community's concerns about its decision to withdraw from the nonproliferation pact, an accord that blocked it from developing nukes. But Seoul said that it would push ahead with efforts to end the crisis peacefully, announcing that it would send high-level envoys to Pyongyang this week. South Korea's President-elect Roh Moo-hyun said he would be willing to meet with North...
...soldiers, and that Liberian participation in the fighting was a certainty. But a Liberian Foreign Ministry spokesman said the Liberians were mercenaries. The attack follows incursions by both the Ivorian army and rebels across the Liberian border. The fighting came as government and rebel representatives signed a draft peace accord near Paris. The rebels will be part of a new national reconciliation government that draws ministers from across the Ivorian political spectrum. The deal calls for President Laurent Gbagbo to cede some of his powers to the new Prime Minister, Seydou Diarra, a respected Muslim diplomat who served as Premier...
Instead of talking to North Korea, the Administration refused to engage Pyongyang further until it gave up its enrichment program. In November the U.S. led the way to stopping shipments of fuel oil promised to North Korea under a 1994 nonnuclear accord. North Korea's response, as U.S. allies in Asia had predicted, was to move to restart its original--and much more dangerous--plutonium nuclear-weapons plant. The North Koreans now appear to me to be headed toward production of nuclear weapons from this plant as rapidly as possible in an effort to assure their security, having been convinced...
...invite extinction - is now mainstream thinking. It can be measured in the high level of response to call-ups for army reserve duty by ordinary Israelis, and it's erased almost entirely any lingering support for the concessions offered to the Palestinians in the 1993 Oslo peace accord. As a result, in the run-up to the Jan. 28 national election, in which Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is likely to trounce challenger Amram Mitzna, Lahav is in demand at clubs all over the country, and singalong television shows teach youngsters old campfire numbers from the 1948 Independence War. The intifadeh...
...stressed its toughness--the way, for example, that the Administration claims the right to take military action on its own, without U.N. sanction. All of this is said to be of a piece with the Administration's supposed arrogance in international affairs, with its claims that the Kyoto accord on global warming or the treaty on the International Criminal Court should not apply to the sole superpower...