"These were dads who signed deportation agreements thinking they were signing reunification agreements so they're in this state of limbo," said Falcon, explaining that RAICES attorneys are now fighting for the families to have a chance at applying for asylum.
Commission officials hope that in about six months they may secure agreement on family reunification.
Russian historiography characterizes that agreement as the reunification of Ukraine with Russia; the Ukrainians interpret it as an alliance based on expediency.
From that post he was a major player in the negotiations over the Nafta accord and was architect of a major agreement involving German reunification.
The provisions of the agreement on German reunification were therefore negotiated there.
In a message in the visitors' log, Ms. Lee wrote that she hoped the two Koreas would achieve an "early reunification" by honoring a 2000 summit agreement in which her husband and Kim Jong-il had promised to encourage political reconciliation and economic exchanges.
The intensity that Mr. Zoellick has brought to these tasks is reminiscent of his work in helping to broker German reunification and the North American Free Trade Agreement a decade ago as a member of the first Bush administration.
Most recently, in 1991, talks led to an agreement promoting peace and eventual reunification, but it was never put into practice, partly because of a dispute over the North's suspected development of nuclear weapons.
He was a master at steering Soviet foreign policy through the fateful agreements that led to the reunification of Germany and the peaceful end of Soviet control in Eastern Europe.
