The statement is similar to past threats that analysts call an attempt to raise anxiety in foreign capitals.
In foreign capitals Mr Obama was starting to be seen as a feeble, perhaps even a one-term, president.
And I've had the opportunity to dine with foreign leaders in foreign capitals around the world and just about everything in between.
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For many, both in foreign capitals, among the media elite and in Bush-hostile political circles, this is widely regarded as a very good thing.
The eyes of foreign and defense policy makers in capitals around the world will be focused on California during this meeting, and from nowhere with greater intensity and anxiety than Tokyo.
Mr Kerry's schedule includes meetings foreign ministers and leaders in European capitals including Paris, Rome and Ankara before a tour of the Middle Eastern cities including Cairo, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh.
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Foreign Minister Yevgeni Primakov had been touring NATO capitals demanding a formal treaty between the alliance and Moscow.
Its foreign minister, Marty Natalegawa, flew to both capitals this week for talks.
New York and California are cultural capitals, in part, because they have high foreign-born populations.
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Conteders for the high representative job include Ursula Plassnik, a former Austrian foreign minister, Olli Rehn, the Finnish EU commissioner, and Carl Bildt, Sweden's foreign minister, whose brilliance is not matched by his popularity in capitals such as Paris (where he is seen as too pro-Turkey) and Berlin (where officials dislike his tough stance on Russia).
Algerian forces stormed a gas facility to free foreign hostages without warning other governments, leaving leaders in a series of capitals scrambling to get information on their citizens' fates.
EU, where there are three centres of foreign policy-making: the European Commission, the Council of Ministers and national capitals themselves.
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