American gets U.N. political affairs for first time
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An American was appointed to head U.N. political affairs on Friday after the United States vied for the first time to hold the post that negotiates agreements in a variety of crisis points around the world, the United Nations announced.
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German chancellor Angela Merkel is familiar with Cold War diplomacy, but on Wednesday she had her first encounter with Cool Biz diplomacy.
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John Negroponte was a popular boss on his first day of work at the State Department on Tuesday. He told everybody to go take the afternoon off.
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The United States, accustomed to giving advice on democracy, is in the unfamiliar position of getting some from international election observers schooled in Tajikistan, Ethiopia and other emerging democracies.
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Former MP takes up new role as Middle East envoy at meeting with US, UN, EU and Russia.
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The South Korean foreign minister who is front-runner to become U.N. secretary-general first dreamed of becoming a diplomat when he met President Kennedy at the White House in 1962.
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Sweden's Ambassador to the United States, H.E. Mr. Jan Eliasson, was endorsed as president of the UN General Assembly for its sixtieth session, due to begin in September 2005, Ministry for Foreign Affairs said ...
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This year, for the first time, expatriate Democrats can cast their ballots on the Internet in a presidential primary for people living outside the United States
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan makes his first visit to Washington next week since calls for his resignation, meeting Secretary of State Colin Powell and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to talk about Iraq, UN
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BAGHDAD -- The new US ambassador to Iraq has made a career of taking on difficult tasks.
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UNITED NATIONS -- When U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon first approached President Bush at the White House in January to muster support for a U.N. climate-change initiative, the president's response was cool: An impatient Bush reminded Ban that he did not want to restrain U.S. industries, and that...
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Bloomberg - Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Condoleezza Rice will make the first visit to Libya by a U.S. secretary of state in half a century in a sign of improving relations with the North African nation once branded a state sponsor of terrorism, envoy Ahmed Gebreel of the Libyan mission to the United Nations said today.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan on Monday chose the high-profile British head of a key  agency as his new chief of staff, the start of a reshuffle  aimed at instituting U.N. reforms and combating scandals.
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PRAGUE, Jan 21 (IPS) - U.S. diplomatic and business representatives have  stepped up their lobbying activities to secure a deal for the  construction of a military base in Central-Eastern Europe ahead  of the U.S. presidential vote.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has chosen the head of the U.N. Development Program as his new chief of staff, who will be looked at to help push through reforms as the global body faces corruption allegations and strained relations with Washington.
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Lebanon&#39;s ambassador to Washington, Farid Abboud, who traveled to New York to observe part of the Republican National Convention, was on double duty this week in the back halls of the United Nations.
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Kofi Annan, the Secretary General of the United Nations, was welcomed to London by the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, on 19 October 2004.