A knowledgeable and influential official , Sir Kieran , left , was identified as an opponent of the war in Iraq by Washington , which successfully discouraged his ambition to become the United Nations envoy to the Middle East , a post that was given this month to the Peruvian diplomat Alvaro de Soto .
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