Morning Coffee - 16 March 2009

Welcome to Morning Coffee, brought to you by Lindsay Beyerstein with additional links from the UN Dispatch team. Every morning we survey foreign affairs and foreign policy news so you don't have to. We begin with the "Starting Five" items of the day -- these may not always appear on A-1, but they *are* the kinds of stories that will be buzzing in foreign capitals, the UN and wherever foreign policy minds roam.
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"U.S. Middle East hands also told Foreign Policy that peace envoy George Mitchell was likely to appoint two deputies, Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, who is currently serving as the U.S. security coordinator for Israel-Palestinian Authority and has been asked by Mitchell to stay on two more years, and Frederick Hof, a former chief of staff of Mitchell's fact-finding committee. They also said that David Hale, the deputy assistant secretary of state for Near East Asia, was assisting Mitchell." The State Department, preparing for the Netanyahu-Lieberman government in Israel.
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