envoy but john kornblum was the assistant secretary. holbrooke came out once in awhile every couple of months in a c-20. my job was to create what was called the federation forum. which was a group of croats bosnians, so catholics and muslims, because these things are always seen in confessional terms in the balkans, who had been fighting each other. having started out as allies, they ended up fighting each other, and this was to get that half of bosnia working again. and the federation forum met virtually every week. my staff consisted mainly of me and embassy officers. i'll leave it at that for now. >> can i just deal with one more. the next question of the structure of the envoy's office within the state department, and as bob mentioned, he had very few staff. we looked at various envoy situations. some had staff from the regional bureau. some had little. there are three instances we deal with in the report of significantly autonomous officers under the special envoy. currently the special representative for afghanistan and pakistan.

envoy but john kornblum was the assistant secretary. holbrooke came out once in awhile every couple of months in a c-20. my job was to create what was called the federation forum. which was a group of croats a s bosnians, so catholics and muslims, because these things are always seen in confessional terms in the balkans, who had been fighting each other. having started out as allies, they ended up fighting each other, and this was to get that half of bosnia working again. and the federation forum met virtually every week. my staff consisted mainly of me and embassy officers. i'll leave it at that for now. >> can i just deal with one more. the next question of the structure of the envoy's office within the state department, and as bob mentioned, he had very few staff. we looked at various envoy situations. some had staff from the regional bureau. some had little. there are three instances we deal with in the report of significantly autonomous officers under the special envoy. currently the special representative for afghanistan and pakis