Word: summits
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...recent announcement of an unprecedented summit meeting scheduled for June 2000 in Pyongyang between the heads of state of the two Koreas is perhaps the best news to come from the peninsula in the past 55 years. Korea was hastily partitioned into northern and southern zones of occupation by the United States and the Soviet Union in 1945 in what was meant to be a temporary arrangement. Since then, the division has taken on a nightmarish life of its own, perpetuated by the U.S.-Soviet Cold War animosity, an intense and destructive civil war and decades of political and ideological...
...Putin, who visited Britain last week and has scheduled a June summit with President Clinton, has taken other measures to postpone any potential cloud of scandal hanging over his image-building campaign in the West. He also recently pressured the Duma to put off historic hearings into the Bank of New York scandal scheduled for last week until June. "It was to have been the first ever investigative hearing by the Duma, and a number of U.S. congressmen were due to attend," says Meier. "Putin may also be trying to quiet down that one, at least until after his inauguration...
Even as she spoke, Juan Miguel's uncle and cousin were in the air, heading from Miami to Washington to try to get Juan Miguel alone and persuade him to come to Miami for a summit, show him the error of his ways, give him a taste of a new life. The family's options were fast drying up, even as the crowds chanted "Elian will not leave" and talked about using women and children as human shields. But Juan Miguel was not in the mood to talk to his son's "kidnappers." He and his family went sightseeing...
Coincidentally, Okinawa will be the site of Mori's first major international appearance when he is host of the G-8 summit in July. That leaves him just three months to hone his diplomatic skills and demonstrate his potential as a national leader before he sits down with the heads of the industrial world's most powerful countries. On that occasion, his peers will be watching closely to see if Japan's new leader-by-default is anything more than a successful party infighter...
...upcoming summit between the leaders of the North and South, originally called for in a 1994 treaty shouldn't hurt either, Hong-Koo said...