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...it resolves next year. But there is one big issue it cannot avoid--trade. When the Chinese government gave U.S. negotiators Gene Sperling and Charlene Barshefsky the significant tariff reductions and other concessions they sought, the...
...were halted last fall in a dispute over North Korea's demand for new humanitarian aid. Alan Liotta, the lead U.S. negotiator at this week's talks in Malaysia, said in a telephone interview Friday that the United States would pay about...
...for Nazi wrongs, shouldering an obligation never matched by any other nation in history,'' declared the chief U.S. negotiator, Deputy Treasury Secretary Stuart E. Eizenstat. Most of the estimated 240,000 surviving slave laborers are Jews...
...there seeking a treaty that has environmental integrity," said Assistant Secretary of State David Sandalow, a key U.S negotiator. But many environmentalists argue the U.S. proposal amounts to massive "loopholes" that will make Kyoto treaty...
...administration of Bush's father. The trade representative, who carries the rank of ambassador, is the chief U.S. negotiator in trade talks with other nations. The post traditionally has been given Cabinet rank, although Bush had previously...
...to discard? There is still a long way to go, in other words, and the United States still has a role to play. U.S. negotiators should continue to insist that the peace process isn't "over" until the IRA has ceased to exist. U.S. influence...
...administration had envisioned. In contrast, many Iraqi leaders are deeply invested in sectarian or tribal agendas. Even if U.S. negotiators found a way to forge a political settlement among selected representatives of the major factions, these leaders...
...Earth." A U.S. official said an accord between U.S. negotiators and a delegation representing the 15-nation European...months. Undersecretary of State Frank Loy, the chief U.S. negotiator, pledged to continue later where the talks left off...
BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese and U.S. negotiators have agreed on the details for dismantling and flying home a crippled U.S. spy plane, clearing an obstacle to improved bilateral...
...I heard what they said. I can imagine that it could be used to block (the treaty). But I count on it that (U.S. negotiators) will work as constructively as they promised they would." Proponents of the Kyoto treaty have feared for some...