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In March, in response to a nerve-agent attack on the former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the United Kingdom, the Trump administration expelled 60 Russian diplomats, the largest number since the Soviet era.
George Kennan, one of the greatest American diplomats of the post-war years, once wrote that the Western world was committing its biggest mistake in 50 years time by expanding NATO after Soviet communism collapsed.
Iran is also expected to eventually create new trade routes spanning the Mediterranean through the Indian Ocean all the way to the Sea of Japan and the Pacific, according to diplomats and economists in Tehran.
Anonymous senior diplomats in Brussels were quoted as regarding Serbia’s application to be too early; otherwise, an embarrassing silence prevailed.
PSDB-allied diplomats and former senior officials strongly have opposed the PT’s support for Latin America’s authoritarian regimes (particularly in Cuba and Venezuela), its futile insistence on a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, and its excessive embrace of non-aligned, anti-imperialist positions.
Why Ukraine Needs WeaponsMUNICH – It has become something of a mantra among diplomats and other foreign-policy analysts that there is no military solution to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
So it is no surprise that, when addressing the region, politicians, diplomats, and the donor and humanitarian community typically focus on the here and now.
In the recent doormat drama, she also used Twitter to issue instructions to her own diplomats, tweeting at the Indian High Commission in Canada to deal with the “unacceptable” matter, by taking it up with Amazon “at the highest level.”
While the risk of armed conflict remains low, the current war of words is escalating, as is the covert war in which Israel and the US are engaged with Iran; and now Iran is lashing back with terrorist attacks against Israeli diplomats.
The diplomatic Europe, incarnated by EU founding father Jean Monnet, took big, sensitive questions out of the sphere of popular politics and reduced them to manageable technical issues that diplomats could address through bureaucratic compromises behind closed doors.
Diplomats can work with one another; referenda are binary and fixed, leaving none of the political wiggle room and scope for creative compromise needed to resolve political problems.
Egyptian diplomats are thus excellent candidates to exert pressure for compromise.
But, given their shared position, their bilateral relationship is especially important, and diplomats from each country should get to work shoring it up.
Let us imagine, then, a Britain of tomorrow that includes parliamentarians who don’t know what led to World War I, or what the Enlightenment was; journalists who can’t write compellingly; attorneys and judges who can’t figure out their cases; and spies and diplomats who don’t speak the languages or understand the cultures in which they work.
The desire of diplomats to find a peaceful solution to Ukraine’s crisis is understandable.
The Dominican Republic’s constitution says explicitly that anyone born on the country’s territory, except infants born to parents who happen to be diplomats or foreigners “in transit” – understood for decades to mean in the country for fewer than 10 days – is a Dominican citizen.
The Summit of Low ExpectationsSAN DIEGO – In the run-up to President Barack Obama’s first visit to China next month, American and Chinese diplomats have been compiling lists of ongoing cooperative endeavors in case no new agreements materialize.
Diplomats speaking off the record, however, tell a different tale, even as some Albanian political leaders, including some former UCK officials, call for an inquiry.
It includes Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary, who will need no reminder of the old adage that diplomats are supposed to go abroad to lie for their country.
When the Afghan Taliban – another puritanical Sunni movement with a special hatred for Iran – overran the city of Mazar-i-Sharif and executed eight Iranian diplomats in August 1998, Iran massed 70,000 troops on the border and threatened to invade.
When American diplomats complained about Jewish settlers’ forcible intrusion into Palestinian neighborhoods, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded that Jerusalem was not a settlement, but the capital of Israel.
Just a few weeks later, a mob attacked Israel’s embassy in Cairo, forcing the evacuation of Israeli diplomats and creating a major row with Egypt’s fragile interim government.
In July 1914, diplomats were trying to devise a solution that would permit the Habsburg Empire to deal with the cross-border police investigation that was inevitable after a terrorist attack.
But this is no triumph for Trump; rather, he seems to have been outmaneuvered by adroit European diplomats.
Egypt’s government has welcomed Iranian diplomats and embraced the Palestinian group Hamas.
Currently, in its EEAS, the EU has little more than the rudiments of a foreign-relations mechanism; relative to most national foreign services in Europe, it is tiny, with only 1,500 diplomats and an annual budget of less than a half-billion euros.
By contrast, Europe’s combined national missions employ 55,000 diplomats and cost €7.4 billion per year.
Now, it is becoming increasingly hard to find diplomats or policymakers who support him.
What we’re getting is the details – the personal comments, the texture of diplomats’ lives and those of the people they watch, the horrible toll of war and its daily indignities, the hypocrisies and lies of those in power.
Suppose that US diplomats had discovered that democrats living under a brutal military dictatorship were negotiating with junior officers to stage a coup to restore democracy and the rule of law.
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