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...picture of U.S. envoy Dennis Ross as presented in "The Final Countdown" is frightening [June 15]. Ross should not have been placed in charge of dealings with Iran. His close connection with the largely anti-Iran organization American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is well known. Despite Obama's seeming change in course on Iran, Ross continues to endanger the U.S. and the Middle East by pursuing the hostile neoconservative agenda on Iran active in the Bush Administration. William Beeman, MINNEAPOLIS...
...reason for canceling Thursday's scheduled meeting in Paris between Benjamin Netanyahu and George Mitchell was simple: there was nothing for the Israeli Prime Minister and President Obama's Middle East peace envoy to discuss. The U.S. has demanded a complete freeze in Israeli settlement construction in territories conquered in 1967, making it a litmus test of Israel's bona fides in pursuing the two-state solution, which the Obama Administration has prioritized. Netanyahu, who faces more public pressure from Washington than any Israeli leader in nearly two decades, says he wants peace talks and recently declared his qualified support...
...further away from the massive short-term cuts major developing countries have demanded. "In terms of what the U.S. will take on as a target, one year doesn't make up for the last eight years, so we'll have to wait and see," says Shyam Saran, India's envoy on climate change. "This is not our responsibility...
...national vision and will spend $40 billion over four years to transform its industrial policy into "a new paradigm of qualitative growth which uses less energy and is more compatible with environmental sustainability," in the words of Prime Minister Han Seung Soo, whose previous job was special envoy on climate change for the U.N. Secretary-General...
...long career, Hill has put together a useful tool kit for handling protracted negotiations (like those in North Korea) and the aftermath of ethnic and religious conflicts (in the 1990s, he worked with special envoy Richard Holbrooke in the Balkans). It may help too that Hill has a reputation for being approachable and unburdened by ideology. In Iraq, he will need all his diplomatic skills and then some. Iraqi officials like to say they want the same things as the U.S., though they don't like American lectures on how to get them. But Hill has already learned that...