Word: envoys
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...United Nations-brokered peace treaty, which is scheduled to be signed Sunday. That accord aims to close the book on the civil war in Angola -- the longest and bloodiest battle in Africa. "The Angolan people have suffered for 20 years," said Alioune Blondin Beye, the U.N. special envoy to Angola today. "There is going to be no more killing in Angola."Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...closed-door talks, she says, is that negotiations over the last piece of the Mideast peace puzzle have shifted to top levels. Sources on all sides tell Marlowe only a handful of officials -- Assad, his foreign minister, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Secretary of State Warren Christopher, a U.S. envoy and Clinton himself -- are in on the details. Still, U.S. officials told her today they expect a breakthrough if not a full treaty by year's end. Syrian officials, for their part, said it'll be a lot longer than that. "The Syrians are willing to wait," Marlowe says. "Assad...
Aristide has been meeting daily with William Gray, Clinton's special envoy, with senior officials from the State Department, and with General John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. They have come to his apartment in the Chinatown section of Washington to talk over the details of the invasion, to work out the returning President's course of action and to share the news he is hearing from Haiti. "He's giving the American team his point of view," says an Aristide aide. "He's describing for them the reality in Haiti, what people are fearing...
...that reason, Administration officials are at pains to lay out their plans for the days after the initial attack. As tensions heightened, William Gray III, Clinton's special envoy on Haiti, brought General John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, together with Aristide for a 90-minute meeting on Tuesday, when details of the invasion were discussed. The U.S. also began enlisting Haitian refugees from Guantanamo to participate in an interim police force that would step in to replace the Haitian army and restore order. A token force of about 300 troops from eight Caribbean nations would then...
Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared a United Nations effort to coax Haiti's leaders out of power a failure, after the junta refused to meet with a U.N. envoy Monday. And today, four Carribean countries agreed to supply 266 peacekeeping soldiers to police Haiti after a possible U.S. invasion. At a meeting in Kingston, Jamaica, senior U.S. officials elicited the troop promises from Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and Belize, but the three other Caribbean Community members with armies -- Guyana, the Bahamas and Antigua -- balked at the last minute without immediate explanation. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and Deputy Defense...