Word: discussant
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When the United Nations Security Council meets, it's usually to try to sort out some regional trouble spot - a war between countries, a looming military threat. On Monday, they met to discuss a war of sorts. Certainly there have been a lot of casualties - 2 million dead in 1998. But this wasn't the usual Security Council fare; instead, it was about AIDS, and in particular the need for funding, education and medicine in African nations devastated by the AIDS epidemic...
According to Walther, the first HAPA gave its members a chance to discuss biracial issues, which they had not had a chance...
...first item of business. But with one eye on a domestic political base skeptical about retreating from the strategic plateau, Prime Minister Ehud Barak was more interested in making security arrangements the top priority. The U.S.-brokered compromise involved the creation of four commissions that would meet simultaneously to discuss borders, security arrangements, water supplies and normalization of relations. While the commissions on security and normalization have started their work, those looking at borders and water haven't - and the Syrians say that's because Israel is dragging its feet. And discussing only the issues most dear to Israel forces...