To become law, the measures must also be passed by the upper house and signed by President Vladimir V. Putin, whose legislative envoy supports the measure.
The Russian envoy, Viktor S. Chernomyrdin, supported the two-page list of demands that President Martti Ahtisaari of Finland presented to President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia during talks in Belgrade this week.
The former prime minister, now Middle East peace envoy, who supported the coup against Egypt's elected president Mohamed Morsi, is to give Sisi advice on "economic reform" in collaboration with a UAE-financed taskforce in Cairo – a decision criticised by one former ally.
Nor are these just words: upon the government's invitation, the EU nominated a special envoy to support Georgia's work on reforming the justice sector in early March.The Swiss ambassador called it "an excellent answer" that "perfectly expresses the grievances of the Georgian people".
The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution last week asking Ban to appoint a special envoy to support the Arab League peace plan for Syria and condemning the violent crackdown mounted by President Bashar al-Assad.
Rather than urging the envoys to support the new government, he urged that their governments continue to follow events in Venezuela closely and ensure that the essential elements of democracy be preserved.
Multilateral talks on the subject led to a plan developed by UN special envoy Martti Ahtisaari and supported by Kosovar Albanians whereby Kosovo would eventually gain independence.
The diplomatic activity will continue on Saturday with a visit to Moscow by Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations-Arab League peace envoy, who on Thursday supported the establishment of a transitional government in Damascus, perhaps within months.
A1 U.N. Envoy Supports Sistani A senior United Nations envoy said that he supported Ali al-Sistani, the powerful Shiite cleric, in his call for Iraqi elections, but did not offer a specific timetable.
The president is ready to listen, they further said, which is why he has responded well to a proposal by the Swedish envoy to continue supporting UN peacekeeping forces, because they carry out missions that would otherwise require deployment of U.S. ground troops.
