Word: diplomatic
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Director of the Belfer Center’s Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution Robert I. Rotberg described Prendergast as a “consummate diplomat...
...been a key diplomat in the U.N. and he’s been involved in every political and peace-keeping endeavor in the U.N. since his time there,” says Rotberg, who worked with Prendergast at the U.N. “[On] any issue of any relevance, he’s had a role in solving the problems...
...diplomat, he is unusually blunt and direct, and he has a great sense of humor,” he says...
...corrosive effects of this injustice, viewing Guant?namo as a necessary evil in a grim but vital war against the people who brought down the Twin Towers and beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. But I'll bet Christopher Hill gets it. Hill is the U.S. diplomat now charged with trying to get key negotiating partners in line to deal with North Korea and its nukes. One of the most troublesome U.S. allies is South Korea, which is in the midst of a kiss-and-make-up lovefest with its brothers to the North. A few weeks ago, Hill...
...would al-Zarqawi's demise do much to quell the rampaging insurgency? "When you start taking out large numbers of their experienced leadership, you significantly damage the effectiveness of the organization," says House Intelligence Committee chairman Peter Hoekstra. A Western diplomat in Baghdad says al-Zarqawi's death would be a "very important thing" and would hurt funding and recruiting, especially for the "high-end suicide bombings" usually attributed to non-Iraqis. But others point out that the foreign fighters al-Zarqawi is said to command seem to represent only a small percentage of the rebels in Iraq. The bulk...