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...aimed at protecting North Koreans from unscrupulous people smugglers. But the policy shift has once again put Washington and Seoul at cross-purposes?legislation passed by Congress last year seeks to lend more assistance to refugees. President Bush is expected in the next few weeks to name a special envoy for North Korean human rights. State Department and Congressional sources say the odds-on choice is Jay Lefkowitz, a lawyer who played a major role in shaping Bush's policy on stem-cell research...
...Rotberg suggests that his political stance may have affected his availability. U.S. officials opposed Prendergast’s attempts to become the Secretary General’s special envoy to the Middle East...
...says a former Hariri adviser. Hariri jokingly asked Jumblatt, "Who will be assassinated first, you or me?" Still, he shrugged off warnings that he might be killed, claiming to have U.S., French and Saudi assurances for his safety. On Feb. 10, Terje Roed-Larsen, the U.N. envoy overseeing Resolution 1559's implementation, met Assad in Damascus. According to people familiar with the conversation, Assad was preoccupied with Hariri's brazenness. "There is no opposition," Assad told Roed-Larsen, according to a Hariri aide. "There is only Rafiq Hariri." The next day, Roed-Larsen dined with Hariri in Beirut. Hariri informed...
...ENVOY TO PURPLE AMERICA...
...Hubbard's interview last Friday with committee Republicans, the former ambassador "says he strongly disagreed with the tone of the speech, especially at the sensitive time in the negotiating process, and asked Mr. Bolton to tone it down. He did not." Retired Ambassador Charles Pritchard, who was then special envoy for negotiations with North Korea, tells TIME he never approved Bolton's speech either. "I had a chance to see [a draft of] the speech in advance and refused to clear it," says Pritchard...