The role of Islam in governing Iraq is likely to remain a potential deal-breaker, not only now in discussions of a transitional "basic law" but also in a year or so, when Iraqis hope to elect representatives to write a permanent constitution.
The military rulers rejected a permanent representative.
Perhaps Representative Anthony D. Weiner should hang a permanent "Help Wanted" sign outside his office.
With important issues facing the U.N. this fall, it is desirable to confirm a permanent representative without lengthy delay.
The education minister, David Coltart, who belongs to a splinter faction of the M.D.C., said the regional development group should have a permanent representative in Zimbabwe.
"I assured the secretary general," he said, "that in the not too distant future he will see the naming of a permanent representative".
Although Chabad emissaries were being sent all over the country, the leader of the group, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, had been reluctant to send a permanent representative to a place not known for holiness.
In a wide-ranging 45-minute conversation at his headquarters in Colorado Springs, General Eberhart said his command had established a strong working relationship with law enforcement agencies, noting that the F.B.I. had a permanent representative on his staff.
"It's now possible for us to check in with an MEP to counter or amend a text we consider to be against our interests," says Alexis Dutertre, a permanent representative for France to the EU.
But the administration is still operating without a permanent representative at the United Nations and has not explained why it has not sent its nomination of John Negroponte to the Senate for confirmation.
At a second congress, in Sivas on September 4 11, the nationwide Association for the Defense of the Rights of Anatolia and Rumelia (Ottoman provinces in the Balkans) was formed, with a permanent representative committee under Mustafa Kemal.
