Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...role in the region, all launched efforts to resolve the conflict. The first cease-fire brokered by Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati collapsed within a few hours. The second one lasted for several days, with both sides reporting relatively minor violations. That was long enough for U.N. special envoy Cyrus Vance to visit Stepanakert on a fact-finding mission late last month and to declare his hope that third-party mediation could help bring peace...
...solution." That is thanks largely to four outsiders: Javier Perez de Cuellar, the former U.N. Secretary-General, who laid the ground for the intervention last fall; his successor, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who engineered the Security Council's decision two weeks ago to dispatch the troops; Lord Carrington, the chief envoy in the European Community's effort to broker an overall political settlement among the pieces of the shattered Yugoslav federation; and Cyrus Vance, who has labored for five months as the personal envoy of the Secretary- General to negotiate a cessation of hostilities durable enough to put the peacekeepers...
Quiet diplomacy is not always handled by colorless bureaucrats. GIANDOMENICO PICCO, the dashing U.N. envoy credited with freeing the hostages, has a certain James Bond quality that has Hollywood panting. Already considering book offers, Picco is now being courted by movie studios eager to portray the glamorous negotiator at work...
Despite the collapse of 14 negotiated truces over the past six months, the peacemakers have not given up. U.N. special envoy and former U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance last week put together the most detailed agreement yet and won approval from the warring Presidents, Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia...
Connections to B.C.C.I. are proving to be politically sticky. Last week the Bush Administration denied any knowledge of a business relationship between Charles Hostler, the U.S. envoy to Bahrain, and B.C.C.I. An NBC News report had linked Hostler, a major G.O.P contributor, to a Connecticut real estate development controlled by reputed B.C.C.I. front man Mohammed Hammoud. Hostler says he became involved in the Connecticut project because of friendship with Hammoud and did not profit from it, and denies ties to B.C.C.I. Hammoud's connections, however, seem clear. Internal B.C.C.I. documents examined by TIME show that the bank planned to move...