Word: protocolic
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...starting with those people who had the closest contact with him - passengers sitting two rows in front and two rows behind him. But as the CDC's director of global migration and quarantine noted, accessing this information remains a challenge. According to protocol, passengers need to be contacted initially by the health department of their country of citizenship. "It takes time," says Dr. Martin Cetron, of the CDC. "It takes longer than we like, and I hope this system is fixed and improved in the future...
...While that won't leave Kouchner without anything to do, it does mean the nature of his role will differ from previous foreign ministers, likely becoming a more specialized function that will utilize Kouchner's humanitarian background. "The Foreign Minister is now partly a protocol position, partly a humanitarian aid and development role," says Jean-Christophe Rufin, an award-winning author, former diplomat and one-time vice president of the M?decins Sans Fronti?res. "You're not going to see Kouchner riding herd on Franco-German relations, but that's not what he's interested in anyway...
...that goal is updating technology and recruiting protocol alike...
...Brundtland noted that the fight must be joined by the highest producers of emissions, such as the United States, and also major developing countries. The United States is not a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol, a 1997 international treaty that caps the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted from power plants and factories in industrialized countries. Currently, developing countries like China and India are exempt from its obligations...
...More than 1,000 diplomats have begun working on a new accord to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. The ideas will be put before a larger meeting of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in December in Bali, Indonesia, when U.N. officials hope to launch formal talks on a post-Kyoto treaty...