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...this day in February, a driving blizzard has made Karzai's lair seem even more forbidding. Only one person gets through unchallenged: Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan. Inside Karzai's office, the two men converse in English and Dari, one of Afghanistan's two official languages. Karzai, who out of fear of assassination rarely leaves the palace, asks Khalilzad how things look in the country he governs but almost never sees. Khalilzad unfurls a large map and points out various reconstruction projects marked in red and green ink--a network of roads and schools and irrigation canals that...
...community to do a far more thorough job of institution-building in Haiti than they did a decade ago. When Prime Minister Yvon Neptune (a staunch Aristide ally) presented Alexandre to the press hours after Aristide?s farewell, they were both accompanied by Foley-a strong indication that the ambassador may now be America?s de facto pro consul now in Haiti. ?I think it?s very clear that the efforts made 10 years ago did not yield the intended results,? said Foley. ?There are a lot of lessons to be learned from that experience.? And a dire need...
...Ambassador to Haiti James Foley warned the rebels that ?their credibility is entirely on the line? if they ignore their pledge to disarm. His concern is widely shared: A wide swath of the rebel army has links to some of the most brutal military abuses of Haiti?s recent past, including massacres of civilians committed during the three-year army dictatorship that aborted Aristide?s first presidency in 1991, until a U.S. intervention restored Aristide to power...
...Muslim nations - had the floor to itself. At issue is Israel's controversial "barrier" - an amalgam of trenches, towers, concrete walls and barbed-wire fences that may eventually snake for as much as 750 km, dividing Palestinian territory on the West Bank from Israel. Inside the Peace Palace, Palestinian Ambassador to the U.N. Nasser al-Kidwa said the wall was not about security but about "entrenching the occupation and the de facto annexation of large areas of Palestinian land." The barrier strays from the Green Line that has demarcated the two sides since a 1949 armistice. Israel says the fence...
...grant to SPH is the largest of four announced on Monday in Washington D.C. by Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson, Secretary of State Colin Powell and U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, Ambassador Randall Tobias...