Word: envoys
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...Honduras, he withdrew from this visible activity after the military ban. Instead he dispatched Robert Owen, 33, a former congressional aide to Indiana Senator Dan Quayle, to maintain these contacts. In November 1985, U.S. embassy personnel in Honduras introduced Owen to high Honduran military officials as a White House envoy. In fact, Owen had no official Government position. Last year North got Owen a job as a consultant at the State Department office that administered the contras' nonlethal aid. "That was to pay Rob back for all the work he'd done for the program," says an Administration official...
...Kosovo, seen by most Serbs as the cradle of their civilization. Populated mostly by ethnic Albanians, Kosovo was placed under U.N. protectorate status in 1999 after NATO military strikes forced Serbian forces to withdraw, although it remains formally part of Serbia. For most of last year, Serbian and Kosovar envoys negotiated in vain to find a compromise on Kosovo's status at internationally mediated talks in Vienna. On Feb. 2, former Finnish President and U.N. Special envoy Martti Ahtisaari will visit Serbia's and Kosovo's capitals to unveil a proposal that is widely expected to initiate a process that...
...Envoy Bush nominates Iraq ambassador...
President Bush tapped Zalmay Khalilzad, right, to be the U.S. envoy to the U.N. and diplomat Ryan Crocker to fill his Iraq ambassadorial post. The Senate must confirm both nominations...
...opening bids are in, and somebody is going to have to fold if the high-stakes diplomatic game over North Korea's nuclear weapons is going to produce a result before Christmas: That was the time frame for substantial progress set by U.S. envoy Christopher Hill going in the six-party talks that reconvened in Beijing Monday, after having been stalled for over a year, during which North Korea proved it has some form of nuclear weapon by conducting an underground test...