Talk:Jendayi Frazer

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This section ("Interviews") is extremely unclear and has little biographical information. The second Riz Khan show link can be kept as a general reference but I don't think the content in this section meets biographical criteria as outlined above. I am removing it and posting it here for reference. Twalls (talk) 16:35, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Interviews

On November 21, 2007 Aljazeera's Riz Khan television program John Bolton would confirm on an interview what he has written on his recent book.^[1]

Two weeks later on the same Aljazeera's television program interview with Riz Khan on December 3, 2007 Ms. Jendayi denies having to speak Mr. Bolton, "...I never went to him..."^[2]

Ms. Jendayi Frazer is in a hot water for comments she made without checking with her boss, she used an emotionally and politically charged phrase "ethnic cleansing" to describe the postelection violence in Kenya. In his briefing State Department spokesman Sean McCormack was unable to hide his frustration with Ms. Frazer.

"She made some comments based on her firsthand assessment from a trip several weeks ago," McCormack told reporters. Asked if the Bush administration shared Frazer's assessment, he replied: "She said what she said. I am going to stick to what I said."^[3]

I have had to remove this once more. It's poorly worded, and what's more, it adds little to the article. Twalls (talk) 20:59, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bolton quote

I removed the John Bolton quote. If the information is to be retained, it should have introductory sentences making it relevant to this article. Otherwise, it just seems like hatchet job material that's been pasted in. It read:

In his book Surrender Is Not an Option (p. 347), John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to UN, writes: "For reasons I never understood, Frazer reversed course, and asked in early February [2006] to reopen the 2002 Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission decision, which she had concluded was wrong, and award a major piece of disputed territory to Ethiopia. I was at a loss how to explain that to the Security Council, so I didn't." Later he writes: "Ethiopia had agreed on a mechanism to resolve the border dispute in 2000 and was now welching on the deal."^[4]

Twalls (talk) 06:48, 6 May 2008 (UTC)