Due to his wife's illness, he returned to the State Department as special adviser to the president.

由于妻子的病，他返回国务院做了总统的特派顾问。

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Hassan Saeed, attorney-general during the pre-Nasheed era and now special adviser to the president, sees things differently.

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During her visit to Japan, the Director-General participated in a symposium on gender equality in sciences and scientific education in the presence of Mr. Hideki Fukuda, the President of Kobe University - one of the oldest in Japan, as well as Professor and 2008 L'Oreal Prize Winner Ingrid Scheffer, Dr. Yoshie Soma, Special Adviser to the University President, and Professor Roumiana Tsenkova, Director of Gender Equality Office at Kobe University.

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He said he expected the negotiations to intensify by the end of the week, when President Bush's special adviser on Northern Ireland, Richard Haass, will meet political leaders in Belfast, Dublin and London.

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