Topic: Paddy Ashdown

BLOIS, France, May 12 (UPI) -- Lord Holme of Cheltenham was the former chairman of the British Liberal Party -- a classic European free-market oriented, centrist party. He was chair of the English College Foundation in Prague, where we became friends. To his enemies, he spent 30 years as the phantom behind the scenes, the kingmaker. A member of Global Panel America's Advisory Board, he lost his fight to brain cancer last week.

BRUSSELS, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- The withdrawal of Paddy Ashdown, the British politician, from consideration as the U.N. envoy to Afghanistan should give the international community pause for reflection about the possibilities of success and the dangers of failure there.

DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai has objected to the appointment of former British Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown as the U.N. representative to his country.

LONDON, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Jeremy "Paddy" Ashdown is rumored to have accepted the terms to become the United Nations' "super envoy" to Afghanistan.

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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina, May 3 (UPI) -- German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder praised Bosnia for its post-war reconstruction Tuesday and said he welcomed closer European Union ties with the country.

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UNITED NATIONS, March 3 (UPI) --