Gelbard also made it clear that while the United States would prefer strong U.N.
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It took Mr Holbrooke, and his fellow American mediator, Robert Gelbard, four days of arm-twisting to get dialogue going.
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Nevertheless, a group of businessmen hired Robert Gelbard, a retired American diplomat turned lobbyist, to spread poison about him in New York and Washington.