Vinod Kymar, the political counselor at the Indian Embassy here, is a puzzled man.

The initial meeting failed to resolve the issue, a United States official said, and the political counselors of the five nations met tonight to continue the negotiations.

The embassy spokesman and a political counselor seated themselves at a respectful distance across the room.

He returned as a political counselor in 1988, remaining until 1992.

Blackwill served as political counselor in Tel Aviv, Israel from 1978 to 1979.

Neither Moynihan nor his formidable wife and chief political counselor, Elizabeth, is known to suffer fools gladly.

From 1996 to 1999, he worked as the political counselor in Jakarta.

He was a political counselor in the Hague, Netherlands, from 1964 to 1969.

The suspicion lingers that he has been listening to political counselors who, at another time, would have been shown the door.

I am the senior political counselor at Her Britannic Majesty's Embassy.