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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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.
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 stage is set not just for a very bumpy period in diplomatic relations between Israel and countries that it regards as its closest friends.
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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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.
The transfer caught the attention of the United States Treasury, which tracks such movements, and set in motion diplomatic inquiries in Vienna.
You could say that the Justice Department is proceeding on this and U.S. officials in state or in a diplomatic mission like in Canberra wouldn't be aware of it.
Some people in German diplomatic circles say that relations with France are at their worst in peacetime memory.
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Mr Arafat's star may be shining brightly in the diplomatic firmament, but it is dimming rapidly among most Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
At the time Libya and Switzerland were involved in a diplomatic spat over the arrest of one of Gadhafi's sons in Switzerland, accused of assaulting his servants in a Geneva hotel.
Ecuador raised the stakes in its diplomatic row with the United Kingdom on Thursday, officially offering Assange asylum in the South American country.
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