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...announced the agreement Tuesday after informal talks in Beijing, and it came only a day after the top American general in South Korea warned that Kim Jong Il would likely conduct further nuclear and missile tests before the end of the year. Christopher Hill, the chief U.S. envoy to North Korea, told reporters in Beijing that talks could resume "in November or possibly December," and that Pyongyang had reaffirmed its commitment to a preliminary agreement that had been reached last September, shortly before the talks fizzled when the U.S. cracked down on illegal North Korean bank accounts in the Chinese...
...Palestinians ask: Who in the Bush Administration is in charge of Palestinian affairs? Is it the U.S. ambassador in Tel-Aviv? Or perhaps the U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem? Some say the State Department handles Palestinian affairs out of Washington. Perhaps it is David Welsh, the State Department envoy and a frequent visitor to the region. Others, of a conspiratorial bent, say it's done by the CIA, the U.S. military attache in Tel-Aviv or by General Dayton, the security coordinator between Palestinians and Israelis. For Palestinians, this absence of a clearly identified U.S. authority is bewildering. Palestinian officials...
...militias are busy exterminating the non-Arab population. The African soldiers are decent and brave, but they are engaged in a sham. The militias menace villagers in front of the peacekeepers' eyes; Sudan's government steals the fuel they need to fly their planes. In the words of U.N. envoy Jan Pronk, "The people on the ground are just laughing...
...open to question. A barrel-chested Vietnam vet who still lifts weights, Armitage - who left the State Department last year - can be intimidating in meetings. But diplomats don't as a rule threaten military action unless they've been authorized to do so, and Armitage, a seasoned envoy, insists he "never said it" because that was not his instruction from Washington. But he does admit to delivering a strong message to Musharraf's aide that Pakistan was either with the U.S. or against it in the war on terror...
...Khartoum is stopping the deployment of this force. If the Sudanese government does not approve this peacekeeping force quickly, the United Nations must act. Your lives and the credibility of the United Nations is at stake. So today I'm announcing that I'm naming a Presidential Special Envoy - former USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios - to lead America's efforts to resolve the outstanding disputes and help bring peace to your land...