Ashdown Opts Out of Afghanistan Envoy Role
28 January 2008
'', Financial Times, 28 January 2008
EXCERPT: "Plans to install Paddy Ashdown as a new "super envoy" in Afghanistan were abandoned yesterday [27 January 2008] after the former high representative to Bosnia pulled out of the race, saying he lacked support from the Afghan government. The Afghan government said its preferred candidate was now General Sir John McColl, a British general...
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