Anybody can raise a housing issue with the UN envoy, by writing to her.
President Bush was required to appoint an envoy by the North Korean Human Rights Act, passed last October.
With Syria, it was almost a year before Kofi Annan was appointed a United Nations envoy, by which stage the situation was so violent and polarised his options were constrained.
"Irony" doesn't measure up to the words of the Middle-East's "peace envoy" who this week transformed himself into a war envoy by holding out the prospect of more Western troops in the Muslim world.
TONY BLAIR is expected to begin his new job as an international envoy by meeting Israeli and Palestinian leaders, just as the quartet of Middle East negotiators America, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations gather for a round of talks.
We learnt this week that the perma-tanned former Prime Minister likes nothing more than to escape the heat of the Chilcot Enquiry and the Middle East, where he is a UN peace envoy, by chilling out in the kriotherapy chamber here at Champneys Tring not, far from Luton.
The governor, Luís Botelho, insulted the envoy by calling Baji Rao a nigger.
In 550, he was sent as envoy by Justinian to negotiate a peace treaty with Persia, a role he reprised in 561, when he met the Persian envoy Izedh Gushnap at Dara, to end the Lazic War.
But for all his backing for Bush, Blair was stymied in his role as Mideast envoy by then Secretary of State Condi Rice's insistence on taking the lead role in brokering an Israeli/Palestinian peace.
After a week of arm-twisting by Barack Obama's envoys and by King Abdullah of Jordan, who flew his helicopter to Mr Abbas's seat in the West Bank city of Ramallah for the first time in over a decade, the gaps are widening again.
Mr Putin effectively re-centralised Russia by introducing a system of presidential envoys seen by some as overseers for elected governors.
