feels that there is a growing momentum for the resumption of six-party talks, thus advancing the Beijing process intended to resolve the nuclear and related issues in the Korean Peninsula.

We are pleased to confirm … that indeed some progress was tentatively made on various important issues.

It’s going to be the week from hell.

This is not so. In any case, the issue is not the executive chairman. It is how to get on with the work of disarming Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction.

verge of a breakthrough

United Nations security had a general concern about the secretary general’s visit to this region. But in the end, the chief of staff advised the secretary general to make the trip anyway.