But by choosing a career foreign service officer of high standing and someone who worked closely with him on Middle East affairs a decade ago at the National Security Council, General Powell can argue he has not selected a special envoy outside the regular lines of reporting.
But Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations envoy who selected him, ran into opposition from Shiite political leaders, who wanted the job for themselves.
In 2011, Vikram was selected as a Youth Envoy for the United Nations Human Settlements Programme with his aim being to spread awareness about the statutes of U.N Habitat which include urban stabilisation and to help formulate plans for effective water management, slum eradication and women and youth empowerment.
A final choice for Mr. Bush is whether to select a presidential envoy to press the Middle East peace negotiations.
Some officials said there continued to be talk in the administration today about selecting a special envoy to press Mr. Sharon and Mr. Abbas to make concessions to each other.
At the time the Government said the envoys had been "carefully selected for their experience, skills and knowledge of particular sectors or markets".
After his release, he was selected by Washington to serve as a special envoy to King Louis XVI of France.
"You can understand how hard it is and believe we'll succeed". Dr. Allawi, a former neurologist with close ties to the Central Intelligence Agency, was selected as interim prime minister in May by a United Nations envoy under heavy pressure from the United States.
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday selected a former Senate colleague, Russ Feingold, to serve as a special envoy to the Great Lakes region of Africa, promising to raise the profile of a region torn by conflict and yet largely overshadowed in American foreign policy by other global crises.
The third, they said, would be to select a special presidential envoy who would plant himself in the Middle East and not leave until an accord was reached.
LAKHDAR BRAHIMI, the United Nations envoy to Iraq, on his recommendation that a caretaker government be selected by late May.
