Both he and Gary Lewi, a spokesman for BAA, based in Fairfax, Va., denied that the move was connected with the monitoring agreement and said they had agreed not to publicly discuss details of problems in their relationship.
Department officials said they had no formal comment but noted that the monitoring agreements were not given only to Republicans and that Mr. Christie's recommendations of outside monitors in other large corporate investigations had been praised.
The WTO is as important as ever when monitoring agreements or settling disputes.
Administration officials said that American diplomats in those countries were responsible for monitoring agreements to make sure prisoners were not mistreated.
A22 E.P.A. in Private Negotiations The Environmental Protection Agency has been privately negotiating with large industrial livestock farms to offer them amnesty from the Clean Air Act in exchange for monitoring agreements, parties to the talks say.
"There is usually no disclosure of this practice at the point when these monitoring agreements are signed".
Increasing participation in trade negotiations, however, requires countries to strengthen regulatory capacity in terms of monitoring trade agreements and ensuring compliance with international obligations, but also in terms of managing associated risks and ensuring adequate protections for public health [ 84, 142].
Mr. Brahimi in effect ruled out a United Nations peacekeeping force, arguing that such forces were intended to monitor existing agreements and took a long time to set up.
"Instead of being the head of a technical agency, whose job is to monitor these agreements, and come up with objective assessments, he has become a world policy maker, an advocate," said Robert J. Einhorn, the State Department's nonproliferation director from 1999 to 2001.
