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  1. A conversation with Sir John Weston of the U.N.
    A conversation with Sir John Weston of the U.N.

    with John Weston on Jun 23, 1998

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  2. A conversation with Sir John Weston and Mike Wallace about Kofi Annan's trip to Iraq
    A conversation with Sir John Weston and Mike Wallace about Kofi Annan's trip to Iraq

    with John Weston and Mike Wallace on Feb 24, 1998

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    60 min
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  3. A conversation about tensions among the U.S. and Iraq
    A conversation about tensions among the U.S. and Iraq

    with John Weston and Paul Wolfowitz on Feb 17, 1998

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    32 min
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Sir John Weston is a retired British diplomat. He was the U.K. Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council (NATO) from 1992 to 1995, and the British Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) from 1995 to 1998.

From 1981 to 1985 he was the Foreign Office’s Director of International Security Policy, after heading their Defence Department during the Falklands War. He was then posted overseas, as Deputy Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary in Paris, from 1985 to 1988.

In 1992 he was knighted, and appointed the Permanent Representative on NATO for the U.K..

He began writing poetry in 2002, appearing in many magazines and journals. He is chair of the trustees of the Poetry School and a trustee of the Poetry Society.

Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Weston