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A Difficult and Defining Moment: Interviews
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 Jack Straw became British Foreign Secretary in 2001 after serving as Home Secretary from 1997 - 2001.
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 Dr Kim R. Holmes is Assistant Secretary, Bureau of organization Affairs, with responsibility for US policy relating to the United Nations and the International Criminal Court. He joined from the Heritage Foundation, the conservative Washington think-tank. where he was principal spokesman on foreign and defence policy issues. He sat on the Pentagon's defence policy board, chaired by Richard Perle, a former Reagan administration official and a leading advocate of military action against Iraq.
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 Jean-Marc de La Sabliere French Ambassador to the United Nations. He arrived at the UN in December 2002. For the previous 2 years he had been diplomatic adviser to President Chirac. He is a former student of the Ecole Nationale d'Aministration. He was born 8th November 1946 in Athens.
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 Dr Gunter Pleuger German Ambassador to the United Nations. Prior to that he was the State Secretary to the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin and before that he was the political director in the Federal Foreign Office. He was born on March 25th 1941 in Wismar.
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 Chris Patten is the European Union's Commissioner for External Affairs. He joined the Commission in 1999 and and has been closely involved in recent attempts to define and refine what he calls "a common foreign and security policy", as well as working alongside Nato. He served under the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and was appointed parliamentary under-secretary for Northern Ireland in 1983, before moving to the Department of Education. He then became the overseas development minister before gaining a cabinet seat in 1989 as environment secretary. He was appointed chairman of the Conservative Party in 1990. He was Governor of Hong Kong from 1992-97.
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 Kofi Annan is the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations. He took over the job from Boutros Boutros-Ghali in 1997, having served as chief of the UN's peace keeping operations. He is the first is the first black African to hold the post and, together with the United Nations, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001.
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