While bemoaning Ahmadinejad's warm reception, she said that the world leaders were probably just being diplomatic.
"The president of Spain is in the crowd, not trying to control himself or being diplomatic, but just going nuts, " Wolff says.
Baker was being completely diplomatic and admitting that he would never want to be an umpire.
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Although vehemently rejected by Kosovo Albanians, the idea that this bit might be hived off into Serbia is being discreetly floated in diplomatic circles.
The country is gently being released from the diplomatic deep-freeze.
The court reacted by issuing a travel ban on Mr. Mancini, a move that led to howls of protest from Italy and the European Union as being against norms of diplomatic immunity.
The court reacted to their failure to return by issuing a travel ban on Mr. Mancini, a move that led to howls of protest from Italy and the European Union as being against norms of diplomatic immunity.
That is why an EU diplomatic service is being formed before there is a European foreign policy.
Yet another diplomatic initiative is being jointly pursued by some American legislators, including a Republican arms-control expert, Curt Weldon, and members of the Russian parliament.
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There was said to have been "absolute solidarity" around the combined military, diplomatic and humanitarian strategy being pursued by the coalition.
"All of our diplomatic and consular resources are being dedicated to this, " Rudd said.
In a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Washington, he said all options, both diplomatic and military, were being considered.
Obama, with his keen understanding of world affairs, is known for being strategic and sees the need for a more diplomatic approach.
Kerry, who has committed the United States to a multi-month diplomatic effort, stressed that he was being intentionally coy on the specifics of his new peace push.
Yet the war in the western region of Darfur, which reached its most violent stage as the CPA was being finalised, has eaten up most of the foreign diplomatic and financial resources that were promised to bolster the north-south agreement.
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To lend some perspective on how rapidly this military and diplomatic response came together, when people were being brutalized in Bosnia in the 1990s, it took the international community more than a year to intervene with air power to protect civilians.
The question being asked in Germany is whether Ms Merkel's new diplomatic magic can help to win her another term of office at home.
Australian officials were instructed not to provide diplomatic refuge under any circumstances, not even to people being pursued by armed enemies.
But for the rest, bringing the public into a high-quality, two-way sense of what is being done in its name could bear fruit of real political grounding for diplomatic initiatives, therein greater legitimacy.
It also comes on the eve of a trip to Europe by Bush's special envoy to Iraq -- former secretary of state James Baker -- who is being dispatched to the region to try to calm last week's diplomatic feud and to get those nations to forgive billions of dollars of Iraqi debt.
It is being seen by many commentators as another step by Syria to put behind it the diplomatic isolation it suffered after the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri.
Somalia, in particular, is being touted as a success story by the Obama administration, which renewed U.S. diplomatic relations this week with Mogadishu for the first time in 20 years.
Security experts understood there had been positive diplomatic moves behind the scenes, including the release of a prisoner - whose freedom was being demanded by the hostage-takers - from detention by the Americans.
And France, nervous about being left out in the cold, has begun searching for alternative allies to help it keep its threatened diplomatic pre-eminence in Europe.
In the past, there have been repeated allegations that Burma was being helped in its nuclear research by North Korea - suggestions that re-emerged with the publication of diplomatic cables by Wikileaks in late 2010.
The Scots may prefer to be Scottish, Englanders may be warming to the idea of being English, but I suspect that brand Britain will bounce back as voters consider the uncertain economic and diplomatic consequences of breaking apart in a scary financial climate.
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