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...ideas" do not all play well at home. Since becoming Chancellor in 1997, he has had many ideas and made many pronouncements, a large percentage of which came to nothing or missed their target. Let us see how many of Brown's ideas for the reform of the U.N., NATO, the IMF and the World Bank he personally drives forward into positive changes. Time will tell. In many instances, the best that can be said of our Prime Minister is that there is a lot of talk and very little action. Alan F. Smith, North Berwick, Scotland
...Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence came off quietly at first. Beginning with the U.S. and major European powers, 39 countries have now formally recognized Kosovo. But problems started when the new government and its Western backers tried to extend authority into the Belgrade-backed, NATO-secured "enclaves" where most of Kosovo's Serbs have lived since the 1999 Kosovo war. The government in Belgrade urged Serbs working for the U.N., including police and customs officers, to quit their jobs, then rehired about 800 police at double their former salaries. On March 17, U.N. and NATO peacekeepers tried to arrest...
...Talking to Mehsud may help protect Pakistan, says Weinbaum, but would ultimately do little to prevent international terrorism. Mehsud wants the Pakistan government to withdraw the military from the tribal areas and allow him to continue his war against NATO troops in Afghanistan. "Even if the Pakistani government gets a good deal, it would still only be a kind of containment policy," says Weinbaum. "Our interests will not be served by this. It has very little implication for what we are interested in - breaking up terrorist networks, al-Qaeda, and impeding the insurgents going into Afghanistan...
...Pakistani troops have been deployed to the border regions, and they have suffered significant losses, leaving the government without the strength to insist on not talking. "We will have to swallow the consequences of [the Pakistan army's] incapacity for the next two or three years," says one NATO official in Afghanistan. "Which means the potential for terrorism increases over here...
...greatest accomplishments, Vike-Freiberga noted that Latvia entered the EU and NATO under her leadership. Contrary to what she thinks historians will say, she said that these were very difficult tasks...