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...offer to purchase and transport pieces of the two Bamiyan Buddhas to New York was rebuffed by Taliban officials. Last week a very faint ray of hope faded when Pakistan, the Taliban's closest ally, failed to dissuade them from going ahead with their plans. Pierre Lafrance, a UNESCO special envoy, was sent to talk to Taliban mullahs in Kandahar, but he found that "there was not the slightest hint of bargaining in their position. Their standard is definitely extreme compared to other countries...
...United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced that it would continue efforts to salvage other Afghan relics targeted for destruction, while museums offered the Taliban funds to transport the remaining objects of historical interest out of the country. But this policy demonstrates the absurd double standard of allocating resources to save art instead of lives. Our willingness to overlook the Taliban's illegitimate control of the statues in the first place is a glaring demonstration of our misplaced priorities in that we would negotiate for art but not for the betterment of living conditions...
...case, UNESCO policy is misconceived, because it is predicated on the assumption that the Taliban legitimately controls the statues. We would not be willing to bargain with terrorists for the release of a person; it is inconceivable that we would be willing to make a deal over a carved piece of stone, however rich in historical significance. In both cases, the aggressor possesses power because they have control over what is not theirs...
That Jesus wants to fight for America bears witness that, after centuries ?of a lifestyle set in stone, the walls of Batad are crumbling. Teenage big-city dreams, low-yield rice crops, worm erosion and tourism have all taken a toll. Despite unesco World Heritage Site classification, many terraces are in poor repair and protection efforts have been ineffective. Tourist impact is predictable: Batad's handful of caf?s and restaurants feature pizzas, and villagers don traditional costumes and head-dresses for photographs...
...hours before the Millennium Summit, Annan's office contacted Iranian and U.S. officials to see if the two Presidents would be willing to sit through the other's speech at the General Assembly. Another idea was for Albright to attend Khatami's address a day earlier at a UNESCO gathering. Replies were positive, but Annan and his staff worked intensively with the two sides up to the last minute ironing out political sensitivities and logistics. Under fierce pressure back home from religious hard-liners, Khatami took a risk being party to the arrangements. For their part, Clinton and Albright needed...