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...Consulate has brought serious policy makers to meet students and their faculty advisors, like the current UK Ambassador to the UN and the Head of the UK’s Afghanistan and Pakistan policy department,” Rosenbach said...
...Okay, maybe not. But Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's choice to be Special Representative for North Korea Policy, Stephen W. Bosworth, is probably as well-prepared as anyone for the challenge. A career diplomat with years of experience in Asia, Bosworth, 69, is a former Ambassador to South Korea who led the effort to convince Pyongyang to give up its nuclear program in 1994 that resulted in the Agreed Framework treaty. Bosworth was dispatched Monday on his first mission to Asia; he is expected to discuss ways to best bring momentum to the deadlocked six-party talks on North...
...Served as ambassador to Tunisia from 1979 to 1981 and as Ambassador to the Philippines from 1984 to 87, during the tumultuous People Power revolution that saw President Ferdinand Marcos overthrown...
...Syria, however, has begun to emerge from its recent international isolation. On Friday, a senior State Department official met the Syrian ambassador to Washington, the first official contact in months. Washington also is considering appointing a new ambassador to Damascus. The previous ambassador was withdrawn in the wake of the Hariri assassination...
...practice,” said Graham T. Allison ’62—a colleague of Carter’s at the Belfer Center—in a statement released yesterday. Former Dean of the Kennedy School Joseph S. Nye, who has been offered the position of U.S. ambassador to Japan, echoed Allison’s statement, calling the nomination a “terrific choice” when rumors of Carter’s potential nomination first circulated. Though Carter is a leading expert on arms control, he has not spent his career in either government procurement...