Yesterday, I had a very good meeting with the special envoy of the U.N.
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Kofi Annan, the special envoy on Syria, voiced frustration Saturday with Syria's defiance of his United Nations-backed peace mission.
Secretary General Kofi Annan as the special envoy to broker the peace deal.
"Syria is apparently experiencing a rare moment of calm on the ground, " said Kofi Annan, the special envoy who brokered Syria's peace plan.
Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Richard Holbrooke, the special envoy to the region, visited Pakistan this week.
The acknowledgement that the UN's strategy is fraught with problems comes from Jan Pronk, the special envoy to the WSSD of the UN secretary-general, Kofi Annan.
After serving as President of the World Bank, Jim was asked by President George W. Bush to be the Special Envoy for Gaza Disengagement for the Middle East.
Before the Moscow announcements, Mr Brahimi himself had been on the brink of resignation as the special envoy for Syria, but that now seems no longer to be the case, our correspondent adds.
"Contacts made by the special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi have so far not yielded a flicker of hope to put this crisis on the exit track, " Mr al-Arabi said on Monday at an economic summit in Saudi Arabia.
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But if you look back, you'll see a lot of statements, say, from the special envoy to Sudan, Andrew Natsios, who gave a January 1st deadline, saying that punitive action will be taken if Sudan didn't step up to the plate.
Not only is General Petraeus now the head of CENTCOM conducting his own review, he's now working in concert with the special envoy that I've sent over, Richard Holbrooke, one of our top diplomats, to evaluate a regional approach.
The meeting was chaired by Lt-Gen Lazarus Sumbeiywo, the special envoy of the IGAD peace process in Sudan with assistance of the IGAD sub-committee's envoys, namely His Excellency Muhammad Umaro of Eritrea, HE Murad Musa of Ethiopia, HE Francis Butagaria of Uganda, observers from Italy, the United Kingdom, Norway and the United States of America.
Other resolutions adopted unanimously by the Assembly dealt with special subjects relating to the programme budget for the biennium 2008-2009, among them a text dealing with the budget of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the implementation of Security Council resolution 1559 (2004), on the withdrawal of troops from Lebanon, whose narrative and logical framework had been newly revised.
Mr. Annan, the former U.N. secretary-general, was appointed last month as the joint special envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League.
Former US President Bill Clinton, who now serves as the UN Special Envoy to Haiti, also attended the launch of the park in the impoverished north of Haiti, some 160km (100 miles) from the capital, Port-au-Prince.
The UN special envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, meanwhile described the car bomb attack on the ruling Baath Party's headquarters in Damascus on Thursday as a war crime.
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"The Friends' Group called upon the Joint Special Envoy to determine a timeline for next steps, including a return to the UN Security Council, if the killing continues, " it added.
Mr. Eide previously served with the United Nations as Special Envoy of the Secretary-General to undertake a comprehensive review of Kosovo in 2005 and as Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1997-1998.
He was accompanied by the US special envoy Richard Haass, US Consul Barbara Stephenson and Belfast Lord Mayor Jim Rodgers.
Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness were speaking at the Fortune 500 dinner hosted by the US Special Envoy to Northern Ireland, Paula Dobriansky.
The former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, is also due to visit Syria at the weekend as joint special envoy for the UN and the Arab League.
And as the United Nations special envoy to Haiti, he understands intimately the daily struggles and needs of the Haitian people.
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Ibrahim Gambari, the United Nations special envoy to Myanmar , paid his first visit to the country since August.
Before the 1998 elections, Richard Holbrooke, the Clinton administration's special envoy to the Balkans, reflected on the problem.
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At the time of the appeal, UN special envoy Catherine Bertini warned that that the conflict with Ethiopia had resulted in both countries "diverting huge sums of money and resources to the war effort" rather than to drought-relief.
Andrew S. Natsios is the president's special envoy to Sudan and a professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
At Monday's meeting in Brussels, the foreign ministers are expected to consider nominating a German diplomat as the EU's special envoy to Afghanistan in a bid to give the bloc a higher profile as reconstruction efforts gather pace.
Behind this fracas looms the even larger question of whether the U.S. should be sending the OIC any special envoy at all.
On Wednesday, Sir John Sawers, the UK's special envoy to Iraq from May to July 2003, told the inquiry the level of violence faced in Iraq had been "unprecedented".
The UN's special envoy, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, thinks some of the specialists on the country, who are often paid handsomely by international bodies and government agencies, are part of the problem.
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