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...KOFI ANNAN World leaders party is a hit in NYC, but after nightmare traffic, don't plan on post-U.N. mayoral...
Close encounters, yes, but not by chance. Last week, when Iranian President MOHAMMED KHATAMI found himself in the same rooms with President BILL CLINTON and Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT, it was actually part of unprecedented reciprocal gestures between Tehran and Washington choreographed by U.N. Secretary-General KOFI ANNAN...
Just 72 hours before the Millennium Summit, Annan's office contacted Iranian and U.S. officials to see if the two Presidents would be willing to sit through the other's speech at the General Assembly. Another idea was for Albright to attend Khatami's address a day earlier at a UNESCO gathering. Replies were positive, but Annan and his staff worked intensively with the two sides up to the last minute ironing out political sensitivities and logistics. Under fierce pressure back home from religious hard-liners, Khatami took a risk being party to the arrangements. For their part, Clinton...
...After speaking for four hours, two minutes and 22 seconds, Castro finally raised the issue of that handshake with President Clinton. His account: "We all gathered in a line to move to the room" for a group photograph after lunch with Kofi Annan last Wednesday, explained Castro. "As we moved closer to the room, I could see President Clinton greeting each dignitary as they passed by. At first, I was three minutes away, then two, I had nowhere to move but forward, then one! There I was, face to face with the President of the United States! What could...
...White House thought, Thursday, after Bill Clinton became the first U.S. president to shake hands with Fidel Castro. Hours after the inevitable had happened - the U.S. president and the Cuban strongman came face to face on their way out of a luncheon for world leaders hosted by Kofi Annan at the U.N. and held their first-ever conversation - U.S. officials were especially eager to ensure that nobody read any geopolitical meaning into the moment. "A chance encounter" initiated by Castro, said Secretary of State Albright, insisting that the conversation had been "cordial" but "of no substance." A "momentary exchange," said...