Word: counterpart
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...North Korea signed a historic accord that aims to make nuclear tension between the two countries a thing of the past. Chief U.S. negotiator Robert L. Gallucci and his North Korean counterpart, Kang Sok Ju, penned the documents at North Korea's diplomatic mission to the United Nations today. Included in the deal: North Korea opens up its hush-hush nuke program in return for technology for modern reactors, aid and diplomatic links with...
...male class, and its heavily male lower-level counterpart, are examples of what many see as a problem in several math and applied and physical science departments at Harvard...
...would blow NATO apart," Volker Ruehe told a conference of German and American business leaders. Why the snub? Ruehe claimed it would be too difficult to integrate the Russians into the Western alliance, in part because they refuse to learn English, the accepted "common" language of NATO. His U.S. counterpart, Defense Secretary William Perry, hedged, saying Russia could get in line behind Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic -- a 5-year wait at least...
...scene was novel -- and euphoric: Israel's Foreign Minister Shimon Peres sitting at a table near the Dead Sea on the Jordanian side of the border last week across from his counterpart from Amman, Prime Minister Abdul Salam Majali. Meeting for the first time publicly on Jordanian territory, the two men started talking about taking practical steps that would all but end the state of war that has existed between their two countries since...
Responding to a proposal by North Korean leader Kim Il Sung, his South Korean counterpart, President Kim Young Sam, agreed to a summit meeting in order to resolve tensions over the North's suspected nuclear weapons program. If it comes off, the meeting would be the first of its kind since Korea split in two in 1945. The agreement came at the end of talks between Kim Il Sung and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter; thanks to Carter's diplomacy, the North had already agreed not to expel international nuclear inspectors. But the Clinton Administration denied Carter's suggestion that...