The commission did this partly because Paddy Ashdown, the international proconsul of Bosnia, had signalled that he would sack the Bosnian Serb leaders if they failed to acknowledge the truth that everyone else already knows.But the consequences may be momentous.
Iyad Allawi, the prime minister, lifted a ban on his paper, al-Hawza, which the country's departed American proconsul, Paul Bremer, had imposed in March.
But this year, quite unexpectedly, it came unstuck.In this section The very long arm of its law It's the same old Italy United, for now Hans Haekkerup, a Danish proconsul for Kosovo Gulp Ireland's risky budget ReprintsRising oil prices and a weak euro sent Irish inflation soaring to 7%, nearly three times the EU average.
This week, America's proconsul in Iraq, Paul Bremer, gave the health ministry its independence.
For Iraq, as well as for its American proconsul, this has to be third time lucky.
Since he rarely talks to outsiders, and has refused to meet the coalition's proconsul, Paul ("Jerry") Bremer, agreements with him are hard to nail down.His bottom line, however, is clear.
See articleBosnia acquired a new western high representative, or proconsul.
By the end of February the proconsul must pass a "fundamental law" spelling out how the transitional assembly should be chosen.
Libya has no IEDs, no Green Zone, no American proconsul.
