It wasn't that he was ungrateful - he just didn't need any recognition.
Yet diplomatic recognition need not be the enemy of morality.
It means all our resources are diverted to dealing with the immigrants - we need more money and recognition from Spain and Europe.
"We don't intend to worsen relations between Japan and China, " he said, adding that both sides "need to share the recognition that having good relations is in the national interests of both countries".
But I think if you look at history, sometimes what countries need for their sense of self-respect, what they need in terms of recognition from the world is more than the world can give them.
Often, external pressure, not least from regulators wielding big sticks, spurs recognition of the need to change.
Deloitte chairman David Cruickshank said there was a recognition of the need to forge relationships between schools and employers.
That implies a recognition of the need to avoid pushing down too hard on inflation once it falls to 2%.
It also reflects the growing recognition of the need to ensure the same attention to underwater cultural heritage as that already accorded to land-based heritage.
The Convention also reflects the growing recognition of the need to ensure the same protection to underwater cultural heritage as that already accorded to land-based heritage.
There are occasionally glimmers of hope on the horizon with regards to recognition of the need to take a balanced approach to our deficit and debt challenges.
At the moment, few can predict if household prices will come down, but Mark Wiltsher from Ofgem said it, "welcomes SSE's recognition of the need to reform the way suppliers treat consumers".
Since there is often a 12-18 month lag between widespread recognition of a need and full staffing, many new roles will be created relating to data science, and a whole ecosystem of users and products will emerge.
"The FDA applauds Wrigley's decision and its recognition that we need to improve understanding and, as needed, strengthen the regulatory framework governing the appropriate levels and uses of caffeine in foods and beverages, " said Michael Taylor, deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine.
In short, despite the welcome recognition of the need for credible sub-strategic nuclear deterrent forces for the foreseeable future, the actual decisions taken at the NATO summit set the stage for inaction on replacement of obsolescing systems and for new negotiations that will make it problematic even to retain the aging ones now deployed.
And this recognition that states need flexibility to tailor their approach to their unique needs is why part of the law says that, beginning in 2017, if you can come up with a better system for your state to provide coverage of the same quality and affordability as the Affordable Care Act, you can take that route instead.
Recognition addresses the intrinsic need that we humans have to be noticed and commended.
Political observers said the 71-year-old Mr. Brown's high name-recognition could reduce his need for campaign cash.
It is a frank recognition of the medical need or problem of our senior citizens that I have mentioned.
Common to all such services is a need for some form of speech recognition, as well as an engine that can generate speech from digitised text.
He added that a new GCSE in numeracy was being introduced in Wales as part of a recognition that young people need to be "job-ready" by the age of 16.
We welcome people who fit into this definition into space segregated by sex in recognition of their perceived need for access and in the fervent hope that we can achieve such protection for identifiably transgender or transsexual people without harming females.
That's the same standard it previously said would need to be met before it added facial recognition to its own services.
In the banking context, face recognition technology could be just what branches need to raise their level of service.
This is simply recognition that all businesses go through cycles and need new and different talent to manage through those cycles.
In fact, touch computing has eliminated the mouse on mobile devices and speech recognition like Siri and Evi could eliminate the need for a keyboard.
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To me though, in my humble recognition that the future is uncertain, I need to weigh the potential benefit versus the potential price of obtaining that benefit.
"It does seem to represent a recognition on the part of authorities of the need to introduce some reforms in these areas in order to increase production, and to produce some incentive mechanisms, " said Kenzo Oshima, UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs.
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