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...summit ended, the participants tried to put the best face on its ambiguous outcome. "Our purpose was to renew the dialogue between the North and the South," said López Portillo. "This was done." Added Algeria's Ambassador to the U.N. Mohammed Bedjaoui: "We leave Cancún with great enthusiasm." Yet the results hardly rate those reviews, for the summit failed to reach an agreement on the two most important issues: global negotiations and a World Bank energy affiliate...
Both sides were relying heavily on the skill and shrewdness of the five distinguished U.N. envoys. Much care had gone into choosing them: former Venezuelan Ambassador to the U.S. and U.N. Andrés Aguilar Mawdsley, Algerian Chief U.N. Delegate Mohammed Bedjaoui, Syrian Career Diplomat Adib Daoudy, Sri Lankan Lawyer Hector W. ("Harry") Jayawardene, and French Human Rights Activist Louis-Edmond Pettiti...
...Chairman Mohammed Bedjaoui, 50, is Algeria's chief delegate to the United Nations. An attorney who holds a doctorate from the University of Grenoble in France, Bedjaoui served from 1958 to 1961 as legal adviser to the rebels' provisional government during the protracted Algerian struggle against France. After Algeria achieved its independence in 1962, Bedjaoui held a series of high-ranking government posts, including Secretary General, Minister of Justice and Ambassador to France. Bedjaoui has been a member of the U.N. International Law Commission since...
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