Word: armacost
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Washington dispatched Under Secretary of State Michael Armacost to Islamabad for weekend talks with Pakistani leaders on ending the war. Washington and Islamabad will then present their views to the Soviets when United Nations- sponsored peace talks resume in Geneva, probably in February. While the U.S. and the Soviets both hope that the round will be the last, each side is holding to its position. The White House wants Moscow to withdraw completely in less than a year; the Soviets say they will do so only after the U.S. and other countries stop aiding the rebels...
...officials responded cautiously. "If they indicate a reasonable time frame for getting out, then there are perhaps ways in which we can help," said Michael Armacost, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. U.S. negotiators fear, however, that a deal will falter because of two Soviet preconditions for withdrawal: the formation of an interim government that includes Najibullah's People's Democratic Party, and the end of U.S., Chinese and other foreign military support of the rebel mujahedin. U.S. aid alone has been estimated at $600 million a year...
Yesterday was devoted to two discussions of regional issues between Vorontsov, who is the first deputy Soviet foreign minister, and Michael Armacost, U.S. assistant secretary of state...
...American source would not give details. He said Kampelman and Armacost planned to return to Washington on Wednesday and would not hold a news conference in Geneva...
...Washington, the reaction to the Iraqi resumption of the tanker war was thinly disguised exasperation. After the initial Iraqi air attacks, Richard Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, summoned Iraqi Ambassador Nazir Hamdoon to his office for a firm dressing down. Under Secretary of State Michael Armacost later summed up the U.S. view by saying the Iraqi action was "very regrettable, extremely unfortunate." The timing of the raids was "deplorable," he said, both because they create a new threat to U.S. warships in the gulf and because they came at a moment when Iran...