Second, keep a special presidential envoy consistently and visibly active in the region.

"Experience showed the presidential envoy in a region depending more on the local authorities than on the president."

Two special presidential envoys were sent to southern Chile to review the increasingly fractious "Mapuche situation".

Mondale's dream had been to participate in such meetings, and he will this time - albeit not as President but as Presidential envoy.

Since February 12, 2001 he has been a first deputy plenipotentiary presidential envoy to the Central Federal District.

A final choice for Mr. Bush is whether to select a presidential envoy to press the Middle East peace negotiations.

The new Administration now has to conduct "due diligence": "Get an ambassador there, or a Presidential envoy.

Beijing is showing its appreciation by upgrading the Commerce Secretary's protocol status to "Presidential envoy."

Mr. Veshnyakov immediately dispatched a representative to Siberia, who was joined this morning by a presidential envoy.

The main responsibility of a presidential envoy to any of the seven regions is the ensurance of presidential authority in that region.