The British government today came under fire for playing host to a delegation of Zimbabwean businessmen, some of whom are closely linked to the regime of Robert Mugabe.
The island's international status is suspended for a year under the so-called Interim Agreement forged in Dec. by a delegation of 2 British Members of Parliament.
Under that test, a delegation of legislative authority will be upheld as long as Congress "shall lay down by legislative act an intelligible principle" to which the agency "is directed to conform".
General Xiong's meetings continued today when he held "defense consultative talks" with a delegation of Pentagon officials, led by the Defense Department's under secretary for policy, Walter B. Slocombe.
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The Arab League gave its blessing on Sunday to the proposed peace talks and urged the opposition to form a delegation under the leadership of Jarba's coalition.
Formal talks on a long-term agreement began last month under Marc Grossman, the official who has replaced Richard C. Holbrooke, the diplomat who died in December, as the Obama administration's envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and a delegation visited Kabul under the direction of Frank Ruggiero, a State Department official who ran the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team until last year.
Eric S. Edelman, an under secretary of defense, was to lead a delegation to the talks beginning on Tuesday.
They departed under a cease-fire brokered between rebels there and a delegation including a Roman Catholic nun and Syria's minister of social affairs.
Geoff Hoon has come under heavy pressure, alongside the Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, to lead a delegation asking Brown to quit for the good of his party.
