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...highest-ranking Chinese envoy to visit Taiwan in 60 years landed in Taipei this week, ringing in a new era of cross-strait relations with unprecedented trade and transport agreements. It is the first time that a top Chinese official has come to Taiwan, the island off mainland China that claims autonomy, and China claims as its own. Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou, who met with the high-ranking Beijing diplomat, has advocated closer economic ties with China and a more pragmatic approach to its sovereignty dispute...
...strangest things is, I see less of my husband. Because we lived on the premises, and Tony would try every day to come back to put Leo to bed if he could, we were never too far apart. Now as the Middle East envoy, trying to bring peace between Israel and Palestine, he spends about 10 days a month in the Middle East. That's a big difference...
...appear to have been effective. With the ebbing of public support for the war, and with casualties and costs reaching record levels, world leaders and military commanders are now clutching for solutions and exits, including possible power-sharing deals with Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents. Kai Eide, the U.N. special envoy to Afghanistan, said on Oct. 6 that "if you want to have relevant results, you must speak to those who are relevant." U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates reiterated the new philosophy a day later, saying at a press conference that the only way to win the war was "through...
Ahtisaari, 71, may be best known for his work in Kosovo, where he helped midwife the cease-fire that led to the withdrawal of Serbian troops from the province after the NATO bombing campaign in 1999. He also played a key role when, as the United Nations' special envoy to the former Serbian province, he drew up a plan for its independence. That plan was ultimately vetoed by Russia in the U.N. Security Council. But many of its recommendations for power-sharing and administration are currently being implemented by the new government in Pristina. The Norwegian committee's decision...
Ahtisaari, a former primary-school teacher, joined the Finnish Foreign Ministry as a diplomat in the mid-'60s. His first peace mediation job was as U.N. envoy to Namibia, where guerrillas were fighting the apartheid government of South Africa. He spent 20 years abroad as a diplomat for Finland and the U.N. before contesting and winning the presidential election in 1994, serving one term before returning to mediation work full time...