Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conclave may go down in history as one of the longest, most arduous diplomatic marathons of the postwar period. Even so, delegates from 33 European countries, the U.S. and Canada were full of optimism last week: an end to their mission seemed to be in sight. U.S. Envoy Max Kampelman helped set the tone as he returned to Madrid's sprawling concrete Palace of Congresses after consultations with Administration officials in Washington. Kampelman predicted international approval of a 35-page draft document that summed up, after 32 months of often desultory negotiation, the compromises reached at the Conference...
...backed guerrillas, offered to act as intermediaries between the Nicaraguan government and the insurgents in bringing about a national conciliation. The second, and potentially the more dramatic development: Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge worked secretly to arrange a meeting late last week between President Reagan's special envoy Richard Stone and leaders of the Salvadoran guerrillas who have frustrated U.S. policy for more than three years-only to have his guests fail at the last minute to agree on terms that would allow them to sit down with each other...
...Shultz mission was hastily hatched. When the Secretary of State embarked on a twelve-day swing through Asia three weeks ago, he dispatched Special Envoy Philip Habib to judge whether a Middle East side trip by Habib's boss would be worthwhile. By the time Shultz reached Pakistan, his last stop in Asia, senior White House aides decided that he should visit the region. They reasoned that Shultz had little to lose-and much to gain if, miraculously, his presence spurred some progress. Said an Administration official: "No one thought we had to score on this or else...
...fact, while prospects for any kind of rapprochement between the Magaña government and the guerrillas remain slim, U.S. Special Envoy Richard Stone nonetheless returned from a twelve-day, ten-country "listening tour" of Central America in an unexpectedly sanguine mood about starting some kind of dialogue between the rebels and the Salvadoran government. He is expected to express an emphasis on reconciliation in his report to the President this week. Predicted one National Security Council staffer: "I would not be at all surprised to see a dialogue worked out." The Magaña government, backed by the Reagan...
...withdrawal issue is that they have been giving mixed diplomatic signals for some time. Syrian President Hafez Assad has consistently denounced the Lebanese-Israeli agreement, but at the same time he has hinted to Washington that he would welcome talks with U.S. negotiators, though not with U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib. He would probably like to meet directly with Secretary of State George Shultz, who believes that preliminary discussions should be conducted by lower-ranking officials. Some U.S. experts on the Middle East feel that if the Syrians are really ready to talk now, Shultz should move quickly to take...