Word: envoys
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...think that a formula can be arrived at." The status of Jerusalem is a contentious issue with Israelis claiming the city as their undivided capital and Palestinians wanting to claim East Jerusalem as theirs. With tensions still high between Israel and its neighbors, the Clinton administration will send special envoy Dennis Ross to the region next week in an effort to revive the flagging peace process. Josh Dubow
...Secretary of State Warren Christopher met with Syrian President Hafez Assad Wednesday for a marathon 4 1/2 hour session of talks aimed at reaching a cease-fire between Israel and Hizballah guerrillas in Lebanon. Despite canceling a Tuesday meeting with Christopher, Assad insists he was not snubbing the U.S. envoy. U.S. officials speculated that Assad, who has battled health problems for more than a decade, may have been sick. As soon as Christopher's meeting with Assad ended, the secretary traveled in a heavily guarded motorcade to Chtaura, in the heart of Lebanon's Bekaa valley, to meet with Lebanese...
...flew out to the U.S. aircraft carrier USS George Washington to carry on sans Serbs. NATO commander Admiral Leighton Smith called Tolimir's absence "not very smart," saying the General's political superiors wanted him to be there. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic had agreed in weekend meetings with U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke in Rome to bring the Bosnian Serbs back to the negotiating table, but he was unable to deliver. "It may be too early to say that the peace process is derailed," says TIME's Bruce Nelan. "This type of behavior is what we can expect from the Serbs...
SARAJEVO: U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke received a big bit of leverage for his weekend meeting in Rome with Balkan presidents with the discovery of what NATO officials call a terrorist camp near Sarajevo. Less than 48 hours before the Rome conference to boost compliance with the Dayton peace agreement was scheduled to begin, French soldiers raided a former ski chalet 20 miles west of Sarajevo and found nine men, including at least three Iranians, sitting atop an extensive arsenal of grenades, submachine guns, explosives and boobytrapped toys. The Iranians were in direct violation of the Dayton agreement, which said...
...leadership, so effective in engineering the current peace accord in Bosnia, has yet to play a significant role in Burundi. Although National Security Adviser Anthony Lake has voiced a keen interest in the region and regularly holds meetings on Burundi with senior Administration officials, and although U.N. envoy Albright visited the country on Jan. 20 to warn against any party's seizing power by force, such efforts have yet to produce noticeable results on the ground. Humanitarian considerations aside, Washington does have cause for concern. In 1994 the U.S. spent more than half a billion dollars to assist the victims...