Despite months of diplomatic negotiations, Cambodia has underlined its determination to push ahead with their trial on its own terms.
Once this discriminant application of force has been utilized, there will be ample time and a far more tractable climate for diplomatic negotiations.
The thousands of guests invited every year to dinner parties, cocktails, business lunches, even serious diplomatic negotiations, find themselves in a handsome setting that is grand yet warm.
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But the president has made concessions to Israel as well, by pressing the Palestinians to help stop rocket attacks and by agreeing to a timeline on diplomatic negotiations with Iran.
Russia's action only exacerbates tensions and complicates diplomatic negotiations.
While leaving open the possibility for serious diplomatic negotiations, it would also make clear that when it comes to supporting those who seek freedom, the leader of the free world cannot and will not remain silent.
Unresolved issues between monarchy and the Shia majority continue to produce tension in Bahrain and on top of all of this, tensions over Iran's nuclear programme, although lessened by the prospect of imminent diplomatic negotiations, continue to simmer.
American, Japanese and South Korean governments have all at one time or another decided that pressure on human rights might distract from diplomatic negotiations over the more dangerous threat from the North's nuclear weapons program --which is, of course, one of the reasons the North wants nuclear weapons.
Implementing the disengagement by agreement with the PA would ensure a smooth transfer of responsibility for the vacated territory, make it easier to prevent attacks during the complex evacuation and provide an opening for continuing diplomatic negotiations aimed at an agreement that would enjoy broad international support in accordance with the roadmap.
The United States expends its diplomatic energies in negotiations over the regime's tinpot nuclear and missile programme, with little to show for the effort.
Obama pushed at a joint news conference for continued diplomatic efforts, including negotiations and sanctions, intended to get Iran to comply with international safeguards against nuclear arms.
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Nor did he allow any room for diplomatic mistakes during the peace negotiations: he himself, he said, had always doubted the sincerity of the Palestinian side.
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There is an alternative: moving the negotiations onto a different diplomatic track.
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Kramer had initially indicated the U.S. would remain engaged in negotiations after Wednesday's diplomatic ruckus.
The protesters' decision to try to break the stalemate, despite diplomatic talk of a looming breakthrough in negotiations, reflected various frustrations.
So Mr Meshal is waiting for the talks to fail, hoping for a groundswell of diplomatic calls for Hamas to be part of future negotiations, even if it refuses to recognise Israel first.
Rooney also told Battista that he will have no role in the NFL labor negotiations, and will instead concentrate on his diplomatic duties.
The United States has been careful to describe the trip as only a limited diplomatic foray and one not designed to replace the fuller negotiations.
If, on the other hand, the members of the U.S. Senate trouble themselves to study, or at least read, the text of the Law of the Sea Treaty, they would immediately see it for what it really is: a diplomatic dinosaur, a throwback to a bygone era when UN negotiations were dominated by communists of the Soviet Union and their fellow-travelers in the Third World.
It permitted peace negotiations under the auspices of the Organisation of American States, but put no diplomatic weight behind them.
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The commitment, announced at the same time, to enter into negotiations on short-range nuclear forces (SNF) a diplomatic black hole for the Western alliance in whose defense strategy such weapons continue to play an important part.
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If negotiations between Mr Abbas and Mr Netanyahu gain momentum and a wider peace starts to look possible, diplomatic efforts to bring in Hamas and its Syrian sponsor must be renewed.
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