Word: envoys
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...North Korean leaders on Oct. 3 that their country was developing nuclear weapons, it expected the regime to lie about it. A day later came the shocker. Yes, we've been secretly working to produce nukes, a top aide to "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il told astonished U.S. envoy James Kelly. And, he added, we've got "more powerful" weapons--presumably meaning biological and chemical agents--to boot. He was not apologetic at all, says a U.S. official, but "assertive, aggressive about...
...many of the struggles around the world, humanitarianism may simply be a Band-Aid and an irrelevance. Rieff quotes Jose-Maria Mendiluce, the UNHCR's first special envoy to the Balkans, as saying, "You don't reply to fascism with relief supplies, and you don't counter ethnic cleansing with reception centers for the displaced." Oxfam called for a cease-fire during the Rwandan genocide, but as an observer pointed out, that would have left half of Rwanda in the hands of those Hutu perpetrating the genocide and thus would have allowed them to finish what they had started...
...behind the Harken deal and Harvard’s other energy investments. Stone has a variety of ties to the Bushes including a father in law who invested in the elder George Bush’s oil drilling ventures in the 1940s and a brother who was the US envoy to Cyprus during the first Reagan-Bush Administration, and a pattern of contributions to both the Reagan-Bush and Bush-Quayle’s presidential campaign. Although it is understandable that Stone might want to bail out an old family friend like George W. Bush by helping Bush?...
Russia may have lost its superpower status, but it still has the power of veto on the U.N. Security Council--whose approval could legitimize an attack on Iraq. With that in mind, the Bush Administration sent an envoy to Moscow last week in hopes of persuading Russian President Vladimir Putin to support a tough new U.N. ultimatum on Iraq. TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge reports on why Putin is playing hard to get, why he'll ultimately yield and how he'll try to use the negotiations to pursue his own agenda in neighboring Georgia. At time.com/putin...
...creation of the zone capped a summer of surprising moves by Kim to air out his Hermit Kingdom and curry favor with old enemies. Two years after dialogue between North Korea and the U.S. broke down, the Bush administration last week agreed to send an envoy to Pyongyang for talks on its missile development program and tensions on the peninsula. In September, Kim apologized to Japan for abducting 13 Japanese citizens during a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi?the first time Pyongyang has ever acknowledged the kidnappings. Kim also resumed a delayed effort to connect a railway between...