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...Putin is keeping his options open, though. Last week, Russia's envoy to NATO, Dmitri Rogozin, said that the latest U.S. proposals on missile defense in Europe "do not satisfy our security requirements." That could simply be raising the ante in the bargaining process, but it also creates a fallback position should Putin fail to achieve his desired results on Georgia and Ukraine during the Bucharest summit...
...officials, who would simply write them off. Through their pressure, Darfur advocates have in fact won private meetings with influential Chinese officials. In the past year China's stance on Sudan has undergone a major shift. From ignoring complaints about its Sudan links, China has appointed its own special envoy for Darfur and has sent aid to the peacekeeping force in the conflict region. U.S. President George W. Bush's former envoy to Sudan, Andrew Natsios, publicly praised China's stance, and even Jill Savitt, director of the activist group Dream for Darfur, acknowledged that Beijing has taken some measures...
...Saudi Arabia has risen to 800,000 thanks to an influx of immigrant workers from places like the Philippines and India. Mosques are the only houses of prayer in a country where the strict Wahhabi version of Sunni Islam dominates. But Archbishop Paul-Mounged El-Hachem, the papal envoy to the smaller countries on the Arabian peninsula, such as Kuwait and Qatar, has confirmed that talks are under way to establish formal diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Saudi Arabia, and to eventually allow for Catholic churches to be built there. Pope Benedict XVI is believed to have personally appealed...
...Senor’s original 90-day assignment in Iraq was eventually extended to 15 months, making him one of the longest serving civilians in Iraq. In that time, he served as the Bush administration’s chief spokesperson in Iraq and a senior adviser to Presidential Envoy L. Paul Bremer...
President Bush's choice of the 69-year-old registered independent as his top envoy at Catholic Church headquarters - following a pair of prominent Republican fund raisers in the post - is a clear nod to the cerebral leanings of the man in charge of the Holy See. Pope Benedict XVI's nearly three-year reign has been marked by his intellectual explorations and probing writings about how a timeless faith intersects with contemporary life...