European Foreign Ministers have called for diplomacy rather than a military option to prod Iran to abandon its nuclear activities, despite lack of progress in talks with Iranian officials in Geneva.

尽管欧盟与伊朗官员在日内瓦的会谈没有取得进展，但欧洲各国外长仍呼吁通过外交途径，而不是军事手段推动伊朗放弃核活动。

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"Our effort here in writing this letter is just urging caution because we're hoping that with the new administration, we will have an administration that will lend itself more to diplomacy and working through other means rather than always military confrontation,".

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In other words, should we be putting more emphasis on diplomacy on economic and technical assistance in Afghnastan rather than so much emphasis on the military actions?

换句话说，我们是不是应该把更多的经历放到外交，经济以及技术援助上,而不是把过多的经历放在军事行动上？

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America's secretary of state, Colin Powell, also recently advised Israel to rely on diplomacy rather than force.

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It may be that this is achieved through diplomacy rather than through force, says the BBC's Thomas Fessy in Mali's capital, Bamako.

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Mr Ahmadinejad, it seems, is out to prove that his punchy chauvinism, rather than Mr Khatami's quiet diplomacy, will win the Islamic Republic its rightful place in the sun.

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