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...position. "If we have a democratic government, the world could trust it" on nuclear matters, says Reza Khatami, brother of President Mohammed Khatami and an outspoken reformer who was disqualified from seeking re-election to parliament this year. Iranian leaders were clearly concerned about U.S. pressure, says a European diplomat in Tehran, "or they wouldn't have bothered negotiating with us." Three days after Bush was re-elected, the Supreme Leader made a conciliatory gesture in his nationally televised Friday sermon. Directly addressing Bush, Khamenei said, "No, sir, we are not seeking to have nuclear weapons." Some Iranian officials insist...
...also complain of a shortage of personnel to manage the crisis. But while putting more neutrals on the ground may help keep a lid on things, it's not a recipe for lasting peace. "You might be able to stabilize, but that's not a solution," says the Western diplomat...
...Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir insisted the crisis was merely a "tribal conflict" that affects "only 6 percent of Greater Darfur" - this despite the fact that it has displaced a full one-third of Darfur's 5 million inhabitants. "Nobody wears a white hat here," says a senior Western diplomat in Khartoum...
...credibility to a politically charged issue, and there have been few questions raised about the report's details or general conclusions since its publication a year ago. "If anything, when the history is eventually written, we'll probably find out things were worse than he described," says a senior diplomat in Seoul...
...response to such stories, the outside world has begun to stir. Senior British diplomat Bill Rammell raised issues of human rights in a visit to Pyongyang in September, during which, he later said, the North Koreans admitted to the existence of reeducation-through-labor camps. The U.N. this summer named a special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea. In the case of North Korea, the world remains a long way from getting an answer to Evgenia Ginzburg's pointed question. But it has started asking...