In an efficient market, there is no reason to expect the foreign party to the trade to be any better informed than the local.
Netanyahu, who heads the conservative Likud movement, made no real progress in his separate talks with Kadima party leader, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Labor party leader Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
Labour Party Foreign Secretary Mr Henderson was awarded his prize for his efforts to bring about international disarmament in the run up to WWII.
At another time, a brainy left-winger interested in foreign affairs might well have entered the Labour Party and become foreign secretary or secretary of defence.
The former foreign secretary said his party had not become "anti-Europe" but was no longer "soft-headed" in equating extra spending with effectiveness.
BBC: Labour 'repositioning' itself on Europe - David Miliband
Indeed, Olmert and his deputy and successor as leader of the Kadima party outgoing Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni never developed any coherent position on Iran at all.
Mr Westerwelle has been tipped by some to be Germany's next foreign minister after his party achieved its best-ever election result, but he refused to be drawn on the details of his discussion with the chancellor.
He and his Labour party have been trailing well behind the foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, and her Kadima party and Binyamin Netanyahu and his hard-right opposition Likud party.
He defeated Karel Schwarzenberg, an aristocratic foreign minister with the TOP09 party, who garnered 45.2%.
Karel Schwarzenberg, an aristocratic former foreign minister with the TOP09 party, was in second place with 45.1%.
Hatnua, the party of former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni who is focused on talks with Palestinians, gained seven seats.
Joschka Fischer, the Green Party's foreign minister, lacks political judgment because he once proposed the wrong man for a job.
The party's foreign affairs spokesman Menzies Campbell took the second largest amount of money before he dropped out of the race.
One person who seems to have got off lightly in all this is the Socialist Party chairman and foreign minister, Laszlo Kovacs.
India's main opposition party has criticised Foreign Minister SM Krishna for reading out the speech of the Portuguese foreign minister at the UN.
BBC: India's foreign minister criticised for UN speech gaffe
On December 4th, Labor members of parliament changed leaders a fifth time, dumping Mr Beazley in favour of Kevin Rudd, the party's foreign-affairs spokesman.
Respected former finance minister Manmohan Singh chairs Congress's new committee on economic affairs, former external-affairs minister Natwar Singh devises the party's foreign policy and so on.
But the resurgence of the Democrats will nevertheless have a profound influence on the direction of American foreign policy, given the party's strong disagreements with the Bush doctrine.
Once the novelty of power wears off and the agony of austerity begins, these voters could migrate to a Labour Party rendered more Liberal-friendly by a non-tribal leader such as David Miliband (the former foreign secretary and favourite to take over the party).
The royal party, accompanied by Foreign Secretary William Hague, started their five-day visit on Wednesday in Abu Dhabi and arrived in Oman on Thursday.
BBC: Queen tries hand at art curating on state visit to Oman
On Friday, the Russian Foreign Ministry denied any four-party meeting reports though the U.N. confirmed one was most definitely in the cards this weekend.
His Freedom Party has pledged to end foreign influence in Austria and clamp down on immigration.
Blame has fallen mainly on Guido Westerwelle, the foreign minister, who has dominated the party for the past decade.
ECONOMIST: Will the new face for the Free Democrats be tough enough?
Privatisations, especially of banks, are again in swing, though the Peasants' Party continues to trip up foreign investors when it can.
The departure of the Social Democratic Alliance would force a reconstruction of the government as party holds the defense and foreign affairs portfolios, and a deputy prime minister post.
The Foreign Ministry "stresses that whoever the party that kidnapped him and whatever their motives, they bear the full responsibility to protect him and release him promptly, " the agency said.
Over the past few months, he has oscillated between the Labour Party, led by Shelly Yachimovich, and the new Hatnua (The Movement) party, founded by former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.
BBC: Campaigns struggle to impress as Israeli elections loom
Five of the six other candidates who dropped out backed Mr Wade, including Moustapha Niasse, a former foreign minister in President Diouf's party who is expected to become the new prime minister.
Mr Netanyahu, who was appointed caretaker foreign minister last week after the Labour Party quit the coalition government, has repeated his call for the forcible deportation of Mr Arafat from the West Bank.
That would mean bringing in Kadima, a centrist party led by a former foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, who narrowly won Israel's general election a year ago but failed to form a ruling coalition.
ECONOMIST: The two sides move crabwise as indirect negotiations begin
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