Official diplomacy is one time-tested way to ease tensions between countries.

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Here in Damascus, I've been speaking to a senior official doing a lot of his shuttle diplomacy, at least to Moscow and Tehran.

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"He is trying some sort of shuttle diplomacy, " said the official.

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Can a government official believe that it is better to employ diplomacy before resorting to war?

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He was a champion of community activism and global diplomacy: He was even chosen to serve as the official Culture Ambassador for Belize, and served as the head of the country's National Institute of Culture and History.

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With due regard for the politics of the possible, she wrote a mild article urging Elliot Abrams, a Reagan administration official whom she knew well as a fellow supporter of Soviet dissidents, to use quiet diplomacy, at least, to raise human-rights concerns during a forthcoming visit to Ankara.

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that Syria committed a border violation and that officials were "conducting diplomacy with regional countries and will soon take the necessary steps, " Turkey's semi-official Anadolu news agency reported.

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