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Syria: Staffan de Mistura, the UN's special envoy
Staffan de Mistura began his UN career in 1971 as a World Food Programme project officer in Sudan. Over the years his work has taken him to many of the world's trouble spots including Somalia, Ethiopia, the Balkans and Rwanda.
He has also served as Director of the UN Information Centre in Rome, Director of Fundraising and External Relations of the UN Office of the Co-ordinator for Afghanistan (1989-1991), and has held a variety of senior posts with Unicef, the UN agency for the care of children worldwide.
Mr de Mistura is 67 and speaks seven languages including colloquial Arabic, according to the Italian Foreign Ministry website.
While working as a deputy foreign minister in Mario Monti's technocratic government, he was sent to India in 2013 to lead Italian negotiations with the Indian government over the arrest of two Italian marines over the shooting dead of two Indian fishermen mistaken for pirates.
Mr de Mistura was born in Stockholm in 1947 of a Swedish mother and an Italian father, and has dual citizenship. He is a graduate of the University of Rome with a degree in Political Science and Development Economics. He is married with two daughters.
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Afghanistan and Iraq: Failed States or Bed demoted Wars?
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Michael Stein Address on U.S. Middle East Policy: Iraq—The Way Forward
You have heard President Bush talk about a forward strategy for freedom in the Middle East. The president's vision of the future for the Middle East is predicated on one clear principle: that the advance of freedom and democracy leads to peace and progress for all. As the president has said, as long as the Middle East is a place of tyranny and despair and anger, it will produce men and movements that threaten the safety of Americans and our friends. We seek the advance of democracy for the most practical of reasons: because democracies do not support terrorists or threaten the world with weapons of mass destruction.
A free, democratic, and secure Iraq is critical to the success of this vision, and a broad coalition of more than thirty countries have joined together in pursuit of this goal. I want to talk to you this evening about the situation in Iraq.
Needless to say, the month of April was a difficult one for coalition forces, and it was a difficult one for the Iraqi people. Some remnants of Saddam Husayn's regime, along with some foreign Islamic militants attacked coalition forces in the city of Fallujah. In the south of Iraq, coalition forces faced attacks incited by a radical cleric, Muqtada