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...APPOINTED. BILL CLINTON, 58, former U.S. President, as the United Nations' special envoy for tsunami relief; by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan; in New York City. Clinton, along with fellow former President George H.W. Bush, has been making appearances at President George W. Bush's behest to raise private tsunami- relief funds in the U.S. As leader of the U.N.'s reconstruction efforts, he will also be called upon to help mediate conflicts with rebels in the two hardest- hit countries, Indonesia and Sri Lanka...
...Palestinian leader until Abbas punishes the perpetrators of the attack. And yet there is sufficient respect between the two leaders that it may be just a matter of time before they sit down together. "They will have no difficulty talking to each other," says Dennis Ross, the former U.S. envoy to the Middle East. "But it won't matter what the words are. It matters what happens on the ground." Sharon treats Abbas with a level of respect he never showed Arafat. At the peace talks in Wye River, Maryland, in 1998, Sharon refused to shake Arafat's hand...
...Long on blame and short on restraint, Darfur's combatants show little desire to work things out. Despite the rebels' concerted wave of attacks in recent weeks on Tawila and other towns across Darfur - for which they have been solely blamed by UN special envoy Jan Pronk - the rebels insist it is the government that continues to violate the cease-fire...
Former U.S. Peace Envoy to the Middle East General Anthony Zinni argued that the United States’ war on terror has distracted from the more significant issue in the region, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, before a crowded JFK Jr. Forum at the Kennedy School of Government last night...
...knowledge in this case is not necessarily power. The U.S. and South Korea are unable to agree on what, if anything, to do about the camps. In October the U.S. Congress passed the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 that requires the appointment of a special envoy to press the human-rights issue. President George W. Bush, who in 2002 famously said he "loathes" North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, is eager to raise the profile of human rights in North Korea. But to date, South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun has been unwilling to bring up the matter...