Word: ambassadors
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...Gibes from Clintonites over the recent deal are to be expected. But criticism has come from the right as well as the left. John Bolton, Bush's former ambassador to the U.N. and his lead negotiator in the early rounds of the six-party talks, told CNN the U.S. has sent a perilous signal to proliferators that they'll be rewarded for bad behavior. "It's a bad deal," Bolton declared...
...Jonathan Franzen The Corrections Franzen had never been to Lithuania when he described it as a land of "chronic coal and electricity shortages, freezing drizzles, drive-by shootings and a heavy dietary reliance on horsemeat." A Lithuanian ambassador took exception - and invited him for a visit...
...addition to criticism from the Clintonites, the deal faces carping on the right. John Bolton, Bush's former ambassador to the U.N. and his lead negotiator in the early rounds of six-party talks, said the deal sends a signal to proliferators that they can be rewarded for bad behavior. "He's just wrong," Rice sniffed, in response to Bolton's criticisms. The Administration argues that the latest deal is much stronger than the one negotiated in '94 because it effectively isolates Kim. The Clinton deal was bilateral, whereas this time all North Korea's neighbors, including its closest ally...
...Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk, now director of the Brookings Institutions' Saban Center for Middle East Policy, argues that the Mecca accord is a "considerable embarrassment" for Rice and a setback for her hopes of brokering Israeli-Palestinian talks that will lay the groundwork for the establishment of a peaceful Palestinian state. State Department officials said today that Rice still plans to travel to Jerusalem Feb. 19 for Israeli-Palestinian-U.S. trilateral talks with Abbas, [popularly known as Abu Mazen] and Israeli President Ehud Olmert...
...relay the message to Washington that the so-called Rejectionist Crescent, the arc of state and non-state actors from Iran to Syria, was united in opposition to the Bush Administration's "New" Middle East. But that wasn't the only message. At the end of the evening, Ambassador Akhtire lingered long enough to say goodbye to us. "If America wants trust in the Middle East, it has to have a balanced policy based on respect, and which deals with the root causes of problems," he told...