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...track. When the U.N.'s Baghdad headquarters was bombed last August, resulting in 23 deaths, he flew to Geneva to meet Annan--an old friend--and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. He urged them to stay focused on winding down the U.S. occupation and giving Iraq a sovereign government. When multiple suicide attacks killed more than 180 in Baghdad and Karbala earlier this month, Pachachi worked the phones, summoning council members of all ethnic groups to a news conference to appeal for unity...
BREMER: The spaces aren't filled in. We will hand over to a sovereign Iraq government on June 30. The shape and structure of that government isn't yet defined. When we get finished with the transitional administrative law, we will turn to a broad dialogue with Iraqi politicians, provincial governors, local councils, ministers--a variety of people--to try to figure out the best and most effective way to bring in the government. We don't know what that...
...infuriates Beijing by saying China and Taiwan enjoy a "special state-to-state relationship," implying that Taiwan is an independent sovereign nation...
...revised plan in the face of determined opposition from the Shiite majority, whose spiritual leaders have demanded direct elections. Right now, the only aspect of the U.S. transition plan devised last November that remains on track is the June 30 date for dissolving the Coalition Provisional Authority and transferring sovereign political authority to an Iraqi interim government. But how such a government will be created has become an open question since the Shiites rejected the caucus plan, and as the Iraqi political equation becomes increasingly complicated by competing ethnic-political agendas, the Bush administration has looked...
...representative Lakhdar Brahimi has been to reinforce the demand for elections, although he also appears to have confirmed Bremer's view that a valid poll can't be held before year's end. More importantly, Brahimi also indicated that most Iraqis share Washington's concern to restore their sovereign authority by July 1. Asked about how he plans to resolve the conundrum of to whom the keys should be handed on June 30, Bremer indicated last weekend that he was waiting for the UN's recommendations...