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...were mirror opposites; Abbas?s were different from both, but his negligible political standing made him a marginal figure except in the wishful thinking of President Bush. Abbas adopted the ?roadmap? and then equivocated on implementing it; Sharon artfully avoided actually adopting the document as a whole: The relevant cabinet resolution agrees to ?accept the steps set out in the roadmap,? subject to the implementation of 14 Israeli reservations raised with the U.S. but not in the ?roadmap? itself...
...course, suffers from the fact that it was handpicked by Bremer, and even then its internal divisions are such that it could only agree to a presidency rotated on a monthly basis, and has yet to appoint a cabinet six weeks after its inception. Until such time as the IGC or some more directly representative Iraqi body offers a viable option for transferring sovereign authority to Iraqis, the price of UN Security Council endorsement of an international security force is likely to be putting the UN in charge of the political transition process - as is the case in Afghanistan...
...This hasn't escaped the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), which held a "Samui summit" last month where Cabinet ministers and TAT officials discussed how best to solve environmental and image problems. "Everyone has been told to go away and get a list of ideas together," a spokesman said. Not that the carnival can be considered a model for recovery. They may be targeting families, and there is indeed a decrease in the dreadlocked human detritus that normally washes up after full-moon ecstasy parties on nearby Koh Phangan. But Koh Samui's traditional customers may be hard to ditch...
...from acting leader Moses Blah, former deputy to now-exiled President Charles Taylor. Businessman Gyude Bryant was appointed chief of the new administration, where he will oversee a cabinet drawn from the outgoing government, rebel groups and opposition parties. Fully elected leaders will take over by January 2006. With armed youths still on the streets, the arrival of an advanced team from Ghana last week did little to temper calls for more peacekeepers. Around 1,000 troops, mostly Nigerians, have been deployed by ECOWAS, the union of West African states. With just 200 U.S. soldiers supporting ECOWAS from a force...
...Cutting Hedge Germany's cabinet approved a law allowing hedge funds to operate for the first time, from Jan. 1. Analysts predict the German hedge-fund market will quickly become worth billions of dollars...