US Negotiators

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Main US negotiatorsKey American politicians featuring in The Palestine PapersLast Modified: 23 Jan 2011 20:46 GMT

George Mitchell

Role:Obama administration's special envoy to the Middle East

He was appointed as envoy just two days after BarackObama was sworn in as the US president, and left for the

Middle East within a week of his appointment. He hasmade more than a half-dozen trips to the region since then,and has met repeatedly with Binyamin Netanyahu, theIsraeli prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinianpresident, and others.

He previously served as the chair of an international fact-finding mission created by Bill Clinton, the former USpresident. The report offered three suggestions forrestarting the stalled Israeli-Palestinian "peace process": ahalt to violence; a series of "confidence-buildingmeasures," particularly the end to Israeli settlementgrowth; and a resumption of negotiations.

Mitchell was the chief mediator during the Northern Ireland peace talks held during Clinton's term in office. Hechaired the negotiations that led to the Good Friday Agreement.

Mitchell held a variety of roles before being appointed envoy, including three terms in the United States Senate.

Condoleezza Rice

Role:United States' Secretary of State between 2005 and 2009 under George Bush

Before her confirmation as Secretary of State, Rice, 56,was Bush's National Security Adviser during his first term.

Rice stated that the September 11, 2001 attacks wererooted in "oppression and despair" and that the US shouldadvance democratic reform and support basic rightsthroughout the greater Middle East.

Her emphasis on supporting democratically electedgovernments faced challenges as Hamas captured apopular majority in Palestinian elections in 2006, andinfluential countries including Saudi Arabia and Egyptmaintained authoritarian systems with US support.

Throughout her tenure as Secretary of State, Rice madenumerous fruitless attempts to impose the Road Map to


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peace in the Middle East, a plan originally outlined by Bush in a speech in 2002 in which he called for anindependent Palestinian state living side by s ide with Israel.

Her diplomatic performance in the Middle East and at home in the US earned her the nickname of "WarriorPrincess", reflecting strong nerve and delicate manners.

Stephen Hadley

Role:Assistant to President George Bush and Deputy National Security Adviser from January 2001

In Bush's second term, Hadley, 63, replaced CondoleezzaRice as National Security Adviser upon Rice's confirmationas Secretary of State.

As assistant to the president, he admitted fault in allowinga disputed claim about Iraq's quest for nuclear weaponsmaterial to be included in Bush's 2003 State of the UnionAddress.

On July 2003, Hadley offered his resignation to Bushbecause he had "failed in that responsibility" and because

"the high standards the president set were not met." Bushdenied his request.

Amid this, The Times of London reported that Hadley wasBob Woodward's source for Valerie Plame's name in theCIA leak scandal, but this report proved to be false whenRichard Armitage admitted that he was Woodward's source.

During the administration of George Bush Senior, Hadley was "Pentagon aide to [Under-Secretary of Defence Paul]Wolfowitz," serving as the Assistant Secretary of Defence for International Security Policy from 19891993.

In that position, he was responsible for US defence policy towards NATO and Western Europe on nuclear weaponsand ballistic missile defence, and arms control.

Hadley is currently Senior Adviser for International Affairs at the United States Institute for Peace in Washington,DC.

Keith Dayton

Role:Former United States Security Co-ordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority

Since the summer of 2007, Dayton has been overseeingthe formation of the Palestinian Security Forces in theWest Bank, a force created to serve the PalestinianAuthority in matters of public order and to fight Hamas.

The training of the Palestinian Security Forces takes placein a facility outside of Amman, Jordan - incidentally, thesame facility where Iraqi security forces are trained by theUS. Each Palestinian battalion contains 500 combattroops. The training programme is prepared together withIsrael.

Prior to his assignment in Israel, Dayton spent 37 years ina variety of command and staff assignments. As thedirector of the Iraq Survey Group, he was closely involvedin Operation Iraqi Freedom. He also served as a senior member of the Joint Staff, and as defence attach in the USembassy in Moscow, Russia.

Dayton has written many articles over the course of his career and was one of the co-authors of The Future of


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NATO: Facing an Unreliable Enemy in an Uncertain Environment, a study on the future of NATO published in 1991.

Dayton is currently the director of the George C Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

David Welch

Role:Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs in the United States Department of State.

Welch started his diplomatic career as a political officer atthe US embassy in Islamabad in 1979 and returned aftertwo years to the State Department where he was deskofficer for Lebanon and Syria.

Born in Munich in 1953 to US diplomat parents, Welch hasbeen assigned to a number of embassies throughout theMiddle East as head of the political section.

Between 1996 and 1998, Welch served in the StateDepartment's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, playing animportant role in US foreign policy in Iran, Iraq and Libya.

In August 2001, Welch was appointed US ambassador toEgypt, where he was criticised for acting like an "AmericanHigh Commissioner in Egypt, referring to the British High Commissioner during British occupation. Many Egyptianssaw his attempts to rid the Egyptian curriculum and religious sermons of anti-Semitism as unwelcome interferencein domestic affairs.

As Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs from 2005 through 2008, Welch was closely involved in thenegotiations between the Israeli and the Palestinian Authority (PA).

Welch resigned from his position as the top US diplomat in the Middle East in December 2008 to pursue work in theprivate sector.

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