Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chechen fighting ebbed, the Kremlin war continued. On Friday, Lebed announced he would meet with his boss to settle things. Yeltsin initially declined to see his envoy or endorse his blueprint for peace. But later, he reportedly told Lebed by telephone that he generally approved of his initial efforts to end the war and authorized him to hold talks with Chechen rebel leaders on a political accord that would keep Chechnya within the Russian Federation. Lebed headed back to Chechnya over the weekend to work out such a settlement...
...Alexander Lebed, the country's most talked-about politician, stepped out. The retired general was wearing civilian clothes but marched with characteristic ramrod posture into the Church of St. George the Victorious, patron saint of Russian warriors. From there the Secretary of Moscow's Security Council and now special envoy to Chechnya sped to the airport for his second journey last week in search of peace in that war-trampled republic...
...with their carry-on and checked bags, are being hand searched. Snared in the new order have been diplomats from the affected countries who are posted at U.N. headquarters. They have lodged protests with the State Department, arguing that the hand searches at J.F.K. violate diplomatic protocol. A Libyan envoy complained that he was ordered to remove his shoes for an airport inspection...
...more appealing to the Russian government. But after some 20 months of war have produced numerous false starts towards peace, the job of actually negotiating Russia's way out of an increasingly thorny situation is not an easy one. The latest to try his hand: Newly named Russian special envoy to Chechnya Alexander Lebed. After returning from Chechnya on Monday, the former-paratroop general condemned the Russian army's conduct of the war and announced he had a concrete plan to end the fighting, if the government would only concentrate enough power in his hands. Lebed wants control...
...with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic at an official residence outside Belgrade last week, Holbrooke emerged with an agreement that promises to rescue Bosnia and Herzegovina's national elections, which are scheduled for Sept. 14. The former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State had slipped back into his role as special envoy to the Balkans. His assignment was to sit down with Milosevic and persuade--or bully--him into ousting Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, first from power and then from sanctuary in Bosnia. Under the terms of the peace agreement Holbrooke pounded into place in Dayton, Ohio, last year, anyone indicted...