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Yevgeni Primakov was in high spirits as he pulled a chair up to a horseshoe-shaped table in Geneva's Palace of Nations. Seven years earlier, the Russian Foreign Minister had been hunkered down in a Baghdad bunker with American bombs falling around him after he failed to broker a deal to head off the Gulf War. Now, with two U.S. carrier battle groups and 300 warplanes poised in the Persian Gulf for another major strike against Iraq, the pressure was on Primakov once more. But this time he was sure he could keep the guns silent. "I think...
Albright lifted the document, then began looking around the room in bewilderment. The problem: the crucial paper was in Russian. The 2 a.m. meeting in Geneva last Thursday was so hastily convened that there had been no time for papers to be translated. Albright quickly summoned her translator, who dictated in English to an aide pecking on a laptop computer the words that would eventually head off--at least for a while--another military conflict...
...think Moscow isn?t going to crow about it. ?Without any use of violence, any use of weapons, without a show of force, it was achieved through diplomatic means,? said Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov after the emergency middle-of-the-night meeting between permanent Security Council members in Geneva...
WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will join representatives of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council for a dramatic late-night meeting in Geneva to discuss a Russian proposal to end the crisis in the Gulf...
...expect a bleary-eyed Albright to be waving a peace agreement in the Geneva dawn. But if the carrot of an end to sanctions has indeed convinced Baghdad to allow UNSCOM to continue its work, the Iraq crisis may yet be resolved without any missiles being launched...