Morning Coffee - 23 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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"Robert Blake, the current U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka, and a career Foreign Service officer, will be named the next assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia. His nomination will be formally announced and submitted in the next couple weeks. If confirmed, he will oversee a bureau with a shrunken domain. Jurisdiction over Afghanistan and Pakistan has been taken out of the bureau and assumed by Special Representative Richard Holbrooke. The new South and Central Asia bureau is responsible for India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, and the former Soviet states in Central Asia."
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