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...While the power summit marks President Clinton's curtain call on the international stage, it has been the U.N. debut for Russia's President Vladimir Putin, who appears to have reveled in the attention. Like an emerging rock star not yet comfortable with his celebrity, Putin has the disarming - in more ways than one - habit of signing autographs for just about anyone who asks. So when he finished a late-night press conference Thursday, he found himself mobbed by journalists and officials seeking his John Hancock on any available piece of paper. Simply to catch his breath, he was finally...
...world's leaders all know what's wrong with the U.N. peacekeeping system, but that doesn't mean they'll be able to fix it. Thursday's discussion at the international body's Millennium Summit saw further eloquent critiques, particularly from African leaders, whose continent has recently seen the most dramatic failures of the blue-helmeted peacekeepers. They pointed to Rwanda, where the U.N. failed to act to stop the 1994 genocide, and to recent savagery in Sierra Leone, where some 500 hapless peacekeeping troops were taken hostage by a ragtag militia. Everyone from U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan...
...Gore may have finally overcome his Bill Clinton problem, but can Clinton overcome his Fidel Castro problem? That's the question on the minds of most observers at Wednesday's opening session of the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York, which will be attended by both men. During Castro's last visit to a U.N. event in 1995, U.S. officials naturally snubbed him and left him off the guest list for President Clinton's gala event hosting all the world leaders present. But the wily Cuban strongman, who has outlasted eight U.S. presidents, wasn't about to sulk...
...Kofi Annan and his summit are now being rapidly overshadowed by the countless bilateral meetings around town. Besides Iranian president Mohammed Khatami's unscheduled roundtable "Dialogue of Civilizations" and the Jiang-Fidel talks, President Clinton also plans to meet Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat, hoping to jump-start Middle East negotiations...
...Meanwhile, U.N. staffers still can't quite figure out why the summit is being held - this summit has no real agenda. In the halls the diplomats are saying that the real motive for this gathering is to kick off Annan's bid for a second term. A new secretary general will be selected in November of next year, and the summit is designed to garner support from the VIPs to reelect Kofi...