He is known to speak his mind with a bluntness not common in diplomatic circles.
This puts her at odds with those in the administration who see no point in diplomatic charm offensives.
Raoul Wallenberg was a diplomat in Nazi-occupied Hungary, and provided Jews with protective passports and shelter in diplomatic buildings.
Powered by Southeast Asia's economic prowess and growing unity, they have become fixtures in diplomatic calendars the world over.
In an escalating feud, Democrats blamed Republicans for deep cuts in diplomatic security spending for the raid in Libya.
During his tenure, President George W. Bush refused to meet with Iran's president or engage in diplomatic dialogue with him.
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First, they provide Iran with a global deterrent against the US. Second, they provide Iran with ready support in diplomatic forums.
That will have serious repercussions, measured in diplomatic defeats and lost lives.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he hopes the meeting in Geneva will mark a "turning point" in diplomatic efforts to end the unrest.
Some newspapers are bolder, suggesting that it might be time to end the 18-year break in diplomatic relations with the United States.
Yet Kerry thinks that a big bribe (known in diplomatic parlance as "assistance" or "energy development aid") will stop Iran's impending nuclear capacity.
Although vehemently rejected by Kosovo Albanians, the idea that this bit might be hived off into Serbia is being discreetly floated in diplomatic circles.
Scary impressions are important to North Korea because for the last two decades its policy has been, above all, a brilliant exercise in diplomatic blackmail.
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The stage is set not just for a very bumpy period in diplomatic relations between Israel and countries that it regards as its closest friends.
And since "natural relations" is a meaningless term both in international legal discourse and in diplomatic discourse, Israel would have committed national suicide for nothing.
One barely plausible rumour in diplomatic circles even supposes that Kim Jong Il, the North's reclusive despot, died in a car crash several years ago.
Kuwait and Iraq have ended a 14-year hiatus in diplomatic relations.
In addition to declaring the blast a terrorist attack, the State Department said the incident illustrates the need for congressional funding for improvements in diplomatic security.
The adjective "sole" has become a key measurement in diplomatic circles where U.S. nuclear forces have long been seen as an impediment to stopping nuclear proliferation.
They hope he will engage with them, for example, in diplomatic rather than military methods to wean Iran away from the development of a nuclear weapons program.
Engaging in diplomatic processes for their own sake is foolish.
The concession was presented as an exercise in diplomatic house-tidying.
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In diplomatic crises, too, Europe's voice has seldom been heard.
But Clinton administration officials decided that such a trip would be at odds with the current break in diplomatic relations between the United States and Yugoslavia, unless approved by the State Department.
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Although most leading businessmen support the right and are loyal to General Pinochet, they have little appetite for a break in diplomatic relations with Britain and Spain, two of Chile's main foreign investors.
So what happens at Bali matters, though the declaration that comes out of it will be encrypted in diplomatic language, and the difference between success and failure will be imperceptible to the untrained eye.
Yet seen from India, and from countries that, unlike India and Pakistan, have observed the anti-testing norm and promised to forswear nuclear weapons, a presidential visit will amount in diplomatic terms to the next best thing to general acceptance.
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