More than 50 years have passed since their first war over Kashmir, without any measurable progress in settling the conflict.
It insists that South Ossetia, and the other breakaway region, Abkhazia, must participate in upcoming talks in Geneva on settling the conflict.
It would lead him to host Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak at Camp David in the summer of 2000 and five months later to offer the Clinton Parameters for settling the conflict.
But the unions consider Cannes to be a far more inviting target because threats to disrupt it are more likely to embarrass the government into settling the conflict.
In return for Israel returning to its 1967 borders and implementing the various United Nations resolutions concerning settling the conflict, all Arab states would normalize relations with it.
The Democratic victories this month led to a surge of calls for the Administration to begin direct talks with Iran, in part to get its help in settling the conflict in Iraq.
Optimists believe that the moderate government there, under President Aslan Maskhadov, could prove so useful to the Russians in settling the conflict that it will gain political and financial favours such as a ratified accord on quasi-independence from Moscow.
The American official said progress had recently been made in that all four Cambodian factions have accepted that the United Nations should play a larger role in settling the conflict.
Mr. Fox, the first man in 71 years to take the Mexican presidency away from the Institutional Revolutionary Party, said settling the conflict in Chiapas would be one of his first priorities.
President Fox, who on Friday became the first man in 71 years to take control of the Mexican presidency away from the Institutional Revolutionary Party, said that settling the conflict in Chiapas would be one of his administration's first priorities.
