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...hoped HIDO could overcome the traditionally competitive nature of international development groups on campus and encourage cooperative work for greater effect. The IMPACT summit continues this afternoon with a 2:30 panel on human rights in Ticknor Lounge, featuring—among other speakers—the former U.S. ambassador to Austria, Swanee Hunt, who now teaches at the Kennedy School. It concludes tomorrow night with a fund-raising dance party at the Mt. Auburn Street bar Hoffa’s. Whether or not students actively participate, the IMPACT organizers said they hope everyone will support their mission?...
...major issue that is not likely to get much attention is India?s decades-old conflict with Pakistan over the Indian province of Kashmir. In Washington this week, India?s Ambassador to the United States, Ronen Sen, repeated the country?s longstanding position that it doesn?t want third-party intervention in its dispute with Pakistan over the province...
...Just on Monday, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad threatened the Iraqi government with a loss of funds for training their military unless the new government being hammered out was ?non-sectarian.? ?The ministers, particularly security ministers, have to be people who are non-sectarian, who are broadly acceptable, who do not represent or have ties to militias,? he said...
...next day, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari fired back, saying the formation of the government is strictly an Iraqi affair. ?When someone asks us whether we want a sectarian government the answer is ?no, we do not want a sectarian government-not because the U.S. ambassador says so or issues a warning,? he told a news conference. ?We do not need anybody to remind us, thank...
...State Department's top official in Iraq, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, argues vigorously that the U.S. needs to maintain a robust military presence around areas such as oil pipelines and power grids, targeted by the insurgents. The Iraqis have organized special battalions to guard those assets. Yet Khalilzad, say military sources, is not that convinced the Iraqis are up to the job. That has sparked a sharp disagreement with General George Casey, the Pentagon's top commander in Iraq. "Casey is telling the ambassador, 'The Iraqis got it,'" a military source tells TIME. "I'm not sure the ambassador is listening...