A $40 million loan promised by a previous administration has been stalled by the current government, which says the country's $1 billion debt may change the financing.
Pressure from Pakistan for "repentant" or "moderate" leaders of the Taliban, who are mostly Pushtuns, to be included in a new administration has been resisted.
A Conservative minority administration has been running the authority since elections in May.
Certainly there is a consensus that the Bush administration has been a disaster and that the Iraq war was a mistake.
In a sense, the current Bush administration has been a boon for Ms. Griswold.
A lame-duck American administration has been able to do little, though Georgians hope a presidential-election victory by John McCain, an ardent supporter, may change their fortunes.
As a result, the Obama administration has been further entangled in practices many of its officials lamented during the Bush administration.
For more than a year, the Obama administration has been pushing China to let the renminbi rise in value against the dollar.
The warnings are occurring at a time when the administration has been quietly negotiating with several companies, including Maximus Inc., to operate the employment centers.
For more than a year the Bush administration has been at odds with fishermen, conservation groups and some Indian tribes over water flows for the river.
