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...crisp, no-nonsense observations in Peter Galbraith's article are testimony to the clear-minded and progressive views of his highly regarded father, Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith. The world needs many more like them. S.R.A. Das, Kannur, India...
...made his restoration a precondition for international recognition of the results of the Nov. 29 election, and that the endorsement of congress was a mere formality. "The agreement didn't say the elections could be used as clothing to disguise a coup," says Jorge Arturo Reina, Zelaya's U.N. ambassador and his representative on a commission monitoring implementation of the accord. (U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is also on the committee.) But the Zelaya camp's reading of the deal may have been naively optimistic. That much was clear this week when the deal's chief U.S. negotiator, Assistant Secretary...
...Cambodian government didn't back down. Earlier this week, the Cambodian Ambassador to Thailand wrote an angry letter to the Nation, after the Thai daily published an editorial criticizing Hun's Sen's offer of refuge. The Cambodia emissary accused the Nation of having become a "vulgar newspaper [that has] lost its value as a newspaper of a civilized country." Just when tensions looked set to dissipate, Hun Sen announced on Nov. 4 that he was appointing a certain Thai as his economic advisor. Thaksin's conviction by a Thai court, opined Cambodian state T.V., was "politically motivated." The former...
...can’t find a kid who loves football more than he does,” Pizzotti says. “He’s a great ambassador for the game...
Foreign Minister Bogollagama said he had made his government's concerns clear to the U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka Patricia Butenis. "The U.S. authorities should not exert procedures on [Fonseka]," Bogollagama said. "The interview should not take place." The Sri Lankan government believes that despite Fonseka's status as a green-card holder, the U.S. does not have any jurisdiction over him at this point because he entered the country on a Sri Lankan passport. "General Fonseka is a citizen of Sri Lanka and he holds a diplomatic passport from Sri Lanka," said Bogollagama. The minister said that Fonseka could...