Word: summiteer
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...were Bono; on American campuses, students have turned their backs in protest. No wonder he enjoys coming to China so much: He's visited more than 50 times since his first secret trip in 1971, when he and Zhou Enlai arranged the following year's historic Nixon-Mao summit...
...implement the plan. In recent weeks, the U.S. and its European allies have revised the proposed resolution to put before the Security Council three times, but have yet to satisfy Russian objections. Neither a meeting of the G8 group of industrialized nations in Germany last month nor the recent summit between the U.S. and Russian Presidents in Kennebunkport, Maine succeeded in breaking the deadlock. Diplomats now believe that if the resolution were brought to the Security Council for a vote, Russia would veto it. The Russian foreign affairs minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters this weekend that a solution must...
KENNEBUNKPORT, MAINE Bush and Putin hope "lobster summit" will ease tense relations...
...Minister. They question how much real policymaking power he will actually wield, pointing to signs that Sarkozy is intending to strengthen presidential control over foreign affairs rather than delegate more of it away. It was Sarkozy, not Kouchner, for example, who delivered the opening remarks at the Foreign Ministers' summit on Darfur on June 25. And Sarkozy has brought Jean-David Levitte, the respected former French ambassador to Washington, back to Paris to be his national security adviser, based in the Elysée Palace. Kouchner also has deep political differences with Sarkozy - he voted for Sarkozy's Socialist rival...
Choosing Darfur as his first major initiative was perhaps inevitable for Kouchner, who remains at heart a humanitarian activist. Although his Darfur summit failed to soften China, which resolutely opposes sanctions on Sudan, or to settle which foreign troops would be sent there, the tragedy in that region had clearly been given top priority by France, thanks in large part to its new Foreign Minister. In Khartoum, even Bashir - not known for his humor - appeared charmed by his French visitor. Like many African leaders, Bashir has known Kouchner for decades, since the Frenchman's days at MSF. In an anteroom...