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...senior U.N. aids expert claim that Uganda has over the last year allowed a condom shortage while promoting a message of abstinence based on religious dogma. "It's been a deliberate government policy to shift the emphasis from ABC to AB," Stephen Lewis, the U.N. Secretary-General's special envoy for hiv/aids in Africa, said last month. Ugandan aids campaigner Beatrice Were agrees: "There is a new wave of stigma ? attached to the use of condoms. Those of us who promote condoms are looked at as immoral people." The Ugandan government says that's nonsense. The Ministry of Health asserts...
...rioting cast a pall over the British and Irish governments' hopes of using momentum generated by the IRA's disarmament declaration to restore a stable local government in early 2006. Mitchell Reiss, a U.S. State Department envoy, came to Belfast this week to help pave the way for a new round of talks, and ended up criticizing Unionist leaders who blamed anyone but the rioters for the unrest. The talks will probably take place anyway, but they may not be enough to revive Protestant interest in the settlement. And so, having spent more than five years bringing...
CYRUS NASSERI, Iranian envoy, characterizing U.S. suspicions that his country planned to make nuclear weapons as "déjà vu," at a two-day meeting in which the International Atomic Energy Agency urged Iran, without success, to halt its nuclear program...
...evident in the Administration's policy toward North Korea. Although Rice is known to have expressed skepticism that Kim Jong Il is prepared to give up his nuclear arsenal in exchange for promises of aid and trade, she nonetheless secured White House approval to allow Christopher Hill, the U.S. envoy to the six-party negotiations with Pyongyang, to exchange views with the North Koreans face to face--authority that was never granted to Powell. With Hill at the six-party talks in Beijing last week, Rice lobbied other members of the Bush team not to undermine Hill's efforts...
Martin has come under fire from a number of individuals and groups, most of whom lack Bono and Sir Bob’s musical credentials. UN adviser Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76, UN Secretary-General’s special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa Stephen Lewis, the Canadian International Development Agency, and the all-party Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs have all called on Martin to meet Lester B. Pearson’s original goal...