Kerry's first diplomatic meeting abroad came with British Prime Minister David Cameron, where they discussed the prospects of a free trade agreement between the United States and the European Union and the importance of the Middle East peace process.
The Pakistani president and prime minister also made a "very rare and very special" break with diplomatic protocol by meeting Mr Li at the airport, the newspaper adds.
However, during his second term, and after encouragement from Lady Thatcher, Mr Reagan employed diplomatic means as well, meeting Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on a number of occasions and putting pressure on him, both publicly and privately, to reform.
The biggest event on the diplomatic calendar is the annual G8 summit meeting, especially since Japan is the host nation this year.
Olmert, facing political exile and preoccupied with the war, failed to send his chief diplomatic aide, Shalom Turgeman, to the meeting.
The six-plus-two meeting may buy time for a diplomatic solution.
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Now Mr Arafat has embarked on a diplomatic blitz, which this week included a meeting with Islamic finance ministers in Morocco and an audience with the pope in Rome.
And of course, the principle at stake at the U.N. was really important, and that is the safety and security of diplomats around the world, and countries meeting what is an absolutely fundamental diplomatic obligation -- and that is to respect the privileges and immunities and safety of the diplomats around the world from civilized countries.
Lee said she hopes the meeting in Cuba this week will help open diplomatic channels between the two nations.
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Throughout Thursday, U.S. officials insisted Mr. Chen had had a "change of heart" and diplomatic officials scrambled to ascertain what he really wanted, meeting with him and his wife at a Beijing hospital where he is undergoing treatment for injuries sustained during a risky escape from his home detention.
But the diplomatic wranglings, such as Annan's recent Action Group meeting in Geneva and the U.S. and Arab-backed Friends of Syria initiative, have failed to stop the killings of thousands since March 2011.
This action is an essential part of our concerted diplomatic efforts to present Iran with a clear choice between isolation or meeting its obligations.
Cancelling a meeting at such a high level is a rare breach of diplomatic manners.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he hopes the meeting in Geneva will mark a "turning point" in diplomatic efforts to end the unrest.
This seemed to concede China's point, that the meeting was not a matter of principle, but just one diplomatic bargaining chip among many.
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One document he likes, which could be part of the ideas he is said to be sharpening, is one of the rare moments of diplomatic agreement between the five permanent members of the Security Council, after a meeting in Geneva in June.
Global Zero announced itself with a meeting in December 2008 that drew together more than 100 international political, diplomatic, military and academic bigwigs.
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The meeting, in Istanbul, is unprecedented the two countries have had no formal diplomatic ties.
"I came to listen and explore ways and means of intensifying the diplomatic efforts and try to achieve the objectives that have been set, " Annan said after the meeting.
In a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Washington, he said all options, both diplomatic and military, were being considered.
Chavez then said he would have "no type of relationship" with Uribe or his government.7 Amid the diplomatic pressure, Uribe just this month reiterated his offer to allow the first face-to-face meeting between officials of his government and rebels, monitored by international and Roman Catholic observers.
In 2003 Jack Straw, Britain's foreign secretary, had an informal meeting in his hotel suite with the president of Iran, a country with which Britain had no diplomatic ties.
George Osborne, the UK chancellor who led frantic diplomatic efforts to blunt the curbs, must now decide whether to force a debate or a formal vote at a meeting of finance ministers next week.
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