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And it doesn't seem to me that there is grass-roots, broad support for the behavior of diplomats, say, stealing [inaudible] DNA.

The US diplomats said the money would be much better spent on water conservation and improved irrigation.

For now, the world's diplomats will have to get used to shaking hands with a wanted war criminal when they deal with the president of Sudan.

The Venezuelan government has also ejected a pair of US diplomats on suspicion of trying to subvert the government.

U. S. officials said it was likely that a number of Venezuelan diplomats would be asked to leave the U. S. in the coming days.

With the Arab spring turning into a hot summer, the gaze of EU diplomats will no doubt be drawn across the Mediterranean.

He said the mission in Iraq is changing from a military effort led by troops to a civilian effort led by diplomats.

Diplomats from both sides are in "contact" to "arrange" the meeting, He said at a press conference in Beijing.

As a measure of India's priorities, consider that the world's second-most-populous country has no more diplomats than tiny New Zealand.

Chinese diplomats said they did not expect an Obama administration to take a very different approach on trade issues.

Diplomats from the United States and France are said to be close to resolving differences over a resolution to end the fighting.

The British Diplomats go into a corner and discuss for a minute.

South African diplomats said they did not know in advance that Mr. Tsvangirai would pull out of the runoff.

On Friday, Australian officials confirmed that its diplomats won't be allowed to attend some parts of the trial, even after pleas to do so.

Teetotal Mugabe's private party yesterday was hosted by his wife, Grace, 44, and attended by friends and a number of African diplomats.

For Chinese diplomats preparing for the Group of 20 summit, the trade numbers might come as something of a relief.

Libyan air raids in the West began, the British Ambassador in Libya, had been called home, now is not the British diplomats in Tripoli.

Several diplomats said the pan-African body appeared to be siding with the crumbling Gadhafi government.

But just as our diplomats eventually mastered the telegraph, they are doing the same to harness the potential of these new tools as well.

But the drug warriors in the American administration seem to have prevailed over the diplomats.

Activists, diplomats and reporters who tried to visit Mr Chen were attacked by gangs of thugs stationed around the outskirts of his village.

Publicly, Chinese diplomats admit that the country needs better contingency plans to deal with this sort of situation.

Foreign diplomats have been keen to see how China would come down on the issue of regulation.

For the next two years we lived in Nanking among the foreign diplomats, and I attended Nanking University.

Top diplomats said the hardline military was now steering nuclear arms policy, making economic bargains less probable.

"Holbrooke was a floodlight, " said the US official explaining the different approaches of the two diplomats. "Grossman is a laser" .

In another development, Britain has ordered two Iranian diplomats to leave the country following Iran's expulsion of two British envoys.

Diplomats in the Gulf say the Saudis are not likely to help Saleh get back to Yemen, even if he were well enough to travel.

Erdogan also defends Iran's right to a nuclear programme, panicking western diplomats who are trying to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran.

The "Winslet algorithm" as it has been referred to, will be used by diplomats and businessmen promoting the British film industry abroad.

Prodded by some far-sighted diplomats, Australia was one of the first countries to wake up to the economic potential of China.

Both sets of diplomats had been given a week to leave their posts.

It was the first official public visit by Western diplomats since the establishment of the provisional rebel government.

Diplomats, development experts, and others in the United States Government must be able to work side by side to support a common agenda.

If diplomats had been told beforehand that this would be the outcome, they would have danced for joy.

Russia plans to form a state grain trading company to control up to half of the country's cereal exports, western diplomats said last week.

Diplomats are expecting so much instability in a power struggle after his death that they argue it's unwise to rock the boat now.

But despite their appeal as adorable diplomats, Chinese pandas have not always been welcomed.

But such a move would have to be coordinated with NATO, and would require a Security Council resolution, diplomats said.

Western diplomats are ready to try more imaginative approaches in looking for political solutions in the region and in Afghanistan itself.

Only the intercession of foreign diplomats with prison authorities, says Ni, won her the right to use her crutches again after a year.

At the time, he warned Western diplomats not to interfere in Zimbabwe's elections, which he said would be held next year.

Corellian diplomats attempted to help the struggling world, but were ambushed by Red Iaro terrorists in the heart of the Lannik High Court.

It has also become a hub for western diplomats, businessmen, aid agencies and military people going in and out of Iraq.

The diplomats on the front lines working on these topics rarely are the officials who, back home, have the authority or expertise to act.

Diplomats say the North miscalculated in its sabre-rattling and found even China was more rigorous in implementing sanctions than before.

Costa Rican diplomats advised against keeping the terms secret, but the Chinese insisted, said people familiar with the matter.

As diplomats who have had the pleasure can attest, North Korea's international negotiations tend to be high-tension, bared-fang affairs.

The official also disclosed that the day was beaten in the French diplomats, one level higher, and his head was wounded.

But the attempt at verbal sleight of hand did little to conceal what appeared to be Syria's intent, experts and Western diplomats said.

Even so, some diplomats speculate that he may be preparing for a succession of sorts, handing over to his third son, Kim Jong Un.

American diplomats said they did not fully understand the specific composition of the Libyan opposition.

According to US diplomats, his main motivation for carrying on is to guarantee the safety of his own assets and those of his inner circle.

Diplomats say that China's caution has even affected the flow of food to North Korea, an old ally heavily reliant on shipments from abroad.

Diplomats have been mulling for a while whether they should use stronger language to express their frustration with Israel.

During the Cold War, American diplomats decided that the United States needed to make the case for the American way of life abroad.

Though German Perspective revealed the great humanism of these German diplomats, it was primarily in the interest of Germany.

Some European diplomats cling to the idea that the Palestinian issue remains at the heart of the instability in the Middle East.

On Wednesday, three diplomats indicated respectively that China is the only council member that sides with the United States.

Oil industry executives and diplomats said the EU was likely to back an embargo by its next meeting in January.

On the eve of April's G20 summit in London, diplomats from the European Union and South Korea were poised for a breakthrough.

Analysts and diplomats broadly agree that the delay further unsettled markets and drove up the cost of the eventual rescue.

Many Western diplomats and commentators expressed doubts that the Syrian people might one day rise up to demand their rights and freedoms.

Diplomats said the proposed compromise would see Abbas submit his letter to the security council, which would then defer action.

Diplomats say trade between the two countries has picked up in recent months.

Venezuela has broken off diplomatic relations with Colombia and ordered Colombian diplomats to leave the country by Sunday.

The central hall was the office in which the emperor met foreign diplomats, and summoned his officials for consultation.

Diplomats and crabs are creatures who move in such a way that it is impossible to tell whether they are coming or going.

Some of the UN personnel and the diplomats posted to Cairo would remain there, he said.

I am told that US diplomats are finding it a struggle to adjust to the new disposition of responsibilities.

An unenviable task, then, for the American diplomats who face the task of arguing back in defence of old-fashioned libertarianism.

Its diplomats complain of a few thousand gunmen holding up the whole peace process.

But in a report they release this week, several EU diplomats express concern over the time line of the investigation.

Eventually, the diplomats hope, Iran, in an increasingly tight spot, will reach for both as its ladder to climb down on.

The diplomats caution that difficult negotiations lie ahead over the scope of any sanctions.

The other scandal released was that U. S. diplomats interfered with other countries buying aircraft.

Western diplomats believe its private message to Gilani is likely to have been very different from the public platitudes.

British diplomats are now trying to secure Ms Gibbons' early release.

As a temporary home to diplomats from around the world, Washington's restaurant offerings are the finest and most diverse around.

There is likely to be a welcome at the airport by youths and girls in national costume, but foreign diplomats will not be there.

Many Western diplomats argue that it was a mistake for the Turks to get so closely involved in efforts to lift Israel's blockade of Gaza.

And what, anyway, is the point of having diplomats if they are not permitted to talk to your enemies.

Diplomats roll their eyes and say that talking about reform is a waste of breath.

Now they were in Lourdes with all the American diplomats and journalists caught in the Southern France.

African leaders accepted this behavior in exchange for a check for a million dollars or two, diplomats said.

The interim government of Honduras has ordered all Argentine diplomats to leave the country within three days.

The most probable compromise, EU diplomats said, would be to have another member of the ECB's governing board direct the council.

Junior Chinese diplomats used to be sent to serve abroad alone, partly to keep their families as hostages against defections.

Graduates may become international traders, diplomats, professors, or other professionals with a specialized knowledge of East Asia.

The money would be available to rescue euro-zone economies that get into financial troubles, the diplomats said.

The money would be available to rescue euro-zone economies that get into financial troubles, the diplomats said.

The reaction from both ordinary Ivorians and foreign diplomats trying to solve the conflict has been optimistic.

Nevertheless, diplomats at the U. N. have begun discussing possible elements of a new resolution.

The Swiss Embassy in Tehran says Swiss diplomats are trying to meet with the three hikers.

The de facto government ordered Venezuelan diplomats to leave Honduras.

Protesters on Syria's streets say that the better-known internal dissidents spend too much time currying favour with diplomats in Damascus.

Forensic tests are being carried out to identify the remains of the two bodies which have been handed over to British diplomats in Iraq.

The remnants of an American peace delegation headed home from Bosnia-Herzegovina with the bodies of three diplomats killed in an accident.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is being treated as a trade promotion ministry and diplomats are to be replaced by businessmen.

Disagreement continued to fester among U. S. , French, British and other diplomats over who would run the campaign.

'There's a certain code of conduct that has to be observed' in the treatment of foreign diplomats in the U. S. , the unnamed diplomat said.

Auditors have raised fears that the diplomats are unprepared to handle the contractors and have no real plan for training the police.

As American diplomats were never able to overcome Chile's opposition, Wilson's plan for western hemispheric League of Nations collapsed.

The U. S. diplomats go into a huddle and come back to the undertaker and tell him they still want Obama flown home.

Today, our diplomats are not limited, and our diplomacy is no longer confined to the State Department or our embassies.

Now, the only foreigners browsing the clothing racks are usually aid workers, diplomats or journalists.

Oldline aristocratic diplomats underhandedly undermined the attempt. . . to align Germany with the western democracies.

All over the region, India is opening new consulates. It may even recruit more diplomats.

US diplomats cabled back to Washington the widely held view that Medvedev was the "junior partner" , or Putin's "capable assistant" .

Russia said yesterday that it would halt co-operation with the UK on counter-terrorism as well as expelling four British diplomats.

Among the foreign diplomats looking on, optimists refer to the squabbling coalition as an "unconsummated marriage" .

A former director at the school told the magazine he was "humble" and friendly with the children of US diplomats.

An Iraqi insurgent group linked to al-Qaeda says it has killed four Russian diplomats kidnapped three weeks ago in an ambush in Baghdad.

PJ Crowley, the state department spokesman, said some meetings that had been attended by several diplomats were now being attended by fewer.

Naypyitaw was ridiculed by the international media and many foreign diplomats when it was first unveiled a few years ago.

The diplomats now hope to turn the page on what one admits "has not been our finest hour" .

I negotiated with Saddam's diplomats at the U. N. Later , I traveled to Kabul and served in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban .

The audience included dignitaries and business leaders from Muslim countries as well former American diplomats.

But EU diplomats say none of this will let Turkey off the hook over Cyprus.

This year, we will encourage our diplomats at home to be more active in having interactions with the general public.

Regional diplomats say Guinea's new transitional government should keep to its timetable to organize elections within six months.

My attendance also disturbed the precise numerical balance so dear to the heart of diplomats.

EU and American diplomats do not dispute the government's right to control its border, and agree that Serbia has tried everyone's patience.

Adam Gadahn, the American member of al-Qaeda, is threatening foreign diplomats and embassies across the Islamic world.

In other cables American diplomats describe Hamid Karzai and his relatives in less than approbatory language.

Western diplomats talk of a marked escalation in dogfights between Turkish and Greek pilots over the Aegean.

Many thoughtful diplomats have called for just such a "grand bargain" between America and Iran.

Western diplomats appear to have come to that conclusion.

The news service reports the two diplomats discussed the defense system in light of North Korea's recent nuclear test.

Still, the image lingered, inside and outside the ministry, that Hitler's diplomats were a cut above other servants of his vile regime.

It gives Mr Bashir a useful degree of ideological flexibility and keeps Western diplomats nicely off-balance as well.

He comments led American diplomats and delegates from several European countries to walk out of the assembly hall.

The Bush administration is set to put a high-profile nuclear deal with Russia on hold, according to US diplomats.

The U. S. statement came after diplomats in Vienna said Iran had resumed construction and assembly of uranium-enriching centrifuges.

Diplomats said debate on the resolution had been contentious, with Russia and China reluctant to support military intervention.

Afterwards, diplomats emerged with a united voice saying they opposed and condemned Pyongyang's latest defiance of international law.

"Hillary Clinton and several thousand diplomats around the world are going to have a heart attack, " he boasted.

That he was welcome at all is hailed by some senior regional diplomats as an historic breakthrough for ASEAN.

Few doubt that the main activity of diplomats posted to the United Nations in New York is snooping on other countries' plans.

China, a Security Council permanent member, rejected the last two conditions, say diplomats familiar with the negotiations.

Foreign diplomats have expressed concern that the controversy over the quality of Chinese goods could prompt retaliatory measures.

Some Australian military personnel will remain in Iraq to protect diplomats and a navy vessel will continue to patrol the Persian Gulf.

Although the market learned about the impending ban from many Chinese-based foreign diplomats, AQSIQ has so far refused to comment.

The diplomats were asked, "If we had an extra $50 billion to put to good use, which problems would be solved first? "

Britain would eventually have to join these projects, the diplomats thought, which would by then have been shaped irrevocably by others.

Since the parties cannot agree, diplomats on all sides have merely been pretending that genuine negotiations are taking place.

Diplomats said British officials asked Rasmussen to drop this part of his speech earlier this week, but the Dane refused.

He also speaks as one of the diplomats who drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for the United Nations in 1948.

North Korean diplomats are barred from traveling outside Manhattan -- home to the United Nations headquarters -- due to the absence of U. S.

The trial has been closed to the public, with foreign diplomats and the press only permitted to observe the trial on a few occasions.

Like other defected diplomats, he says he is receiving support from fellow Libyans abroad, as he assists the opposition government.

During September we noted confusing signals in statements that senior Chinese diplomats were making in various capitals around the world.

Photographs of a 33-year-old Chinese woman embracing several South Korean diplomats have been splashed across South Korean newspapers.

Diplomats from South Korea, Japan and the U. S. lobbied Chinese counterparts and were hopeful that China's position could eventually soften.

Chinese diplomats also lobbied the Nobel Institute hard against such a choice.

But diplomats said EU leaders forged an important compromise by limiting the scope of the supervisor's power. The U.

At today's meeting, EU diplomats are expected to give formal backing for sanctions against Iran by the United Nations Security Council.

By contrast, diplomats from Sweden, Denmark, Japan, Israel, Norway and Canada had no unpaid fines at all.

China has repeatedly told American diplomats that the energy-rich South China Sea is none of Washington's business.

Monitoring and responding to threats to internet freedom has become part of the daily work of our diplomats and development experts.

"Diplomats are expected to fund themselves, " he said. "And this is one way they do it. "

Diplomats are interested in what they think states intend to do, but military planners have to work with what they think states can do.

The situation is still fluid though, and diplomats said there would be a lot of calls between world leaders before the vote.

A sign perhaps of the tensions between the Clinton political machine and the career diplomats inside the sleepy State Department building.

In Africa, Chinese diplomats present themselves as an alternative foreign superpower, without the baggage of colonialism.

The person said that the U. S. diplomats insisted to go in, the result both sides had "physical confrontation. "

the notion that trade is a grubby matter beneath the attentions of diplomats has always been naive.

In western Pegu Division the diplomats and correspondents will be able to observe voting only in Prome.

Military types, diplomats, analysts and politicians in Islamabad describe a mood more poisonous than at any time for a generation.

Vang Pao leant on his network of former spooks, soldiers and diplomats to twist arms in Washington, DC, and win help for his kinsmen.

It would not be fair to expect them to use the voice of professional diplomats.

Estado reported that Brazilian diplomats had sounded out the US and China over the proposal and had met "strong resistance" .

Kissinger sees contrasts here with the usual approach of U. S. diplomats, which often frustrated him when he was running the show.

All the more reason, then, for India's diplomats to look a good deal keener, too.

American diplomats work hard to develop ties with an increasingly powerful European Parliament.

South Korea has taken heart from this line. Diplomats in Seoul concede that China would never be able to condemn North Korea in public.

The ads can be about everything from selling mobile phone, renting houses, treating difficult diseases to producing fake diplomats.

Not much of a market for one over here. Designed for Middle East diplomats, arms dealers, and drug lords mostly.

Business was good from the outset, as local diners and curious foreign diplomats crammed in for a taste of the new China.

Diplomats and officials around the world will now realize that anything they say may now hit the public sphere.

Singapore's other senior diplomats also had some unflattering words to say about the leaders of their neighbours.

The Israelis are likely to send back their diplomats without their families, at least at first.

Diplomats say the private meeting was devoted mostly to procedural issues and that substantive negotiations will begin early next month.

But will the journey be as momentous for the North Korean and American diplomats who will meet on the sidelines of this week's concert?

After the war Hitler's diplomats regrouped to serve a democratic government willing to overlook their pasts.

Diplomats Sunday said the two events might overlap, depending on how long the Sudan talks carry on.

No longer credentialed as diplomats, they are still working -- but in many cases on behalf of the opposition government based in Benghazi.

Diplomats at a conference make a great fuss over the shape of the table as they play the procedural game.

As another avenue to educate diplomats, the Office chairs the Department's Religion & Global Affairs Forum.

Those who pass information to American diplomats, out of self-interest, conviction or goodwill, will be less open now.

Giving foreign diplomats such access is highly unusual, especially for a politically sensitive trial.

As diplomats and soldiers alike stress, the war in Afghanistan was never motivated by commercial prospects.

Diplomats from African countries acknowledge the 53-member body is far from unanimous in its views on Council enlargement.

In this situation, China will try to make inroads across the region, Asian diplomats say.

They lack the political baggage that diplomats carry, which sometimes means warring parties are more willing to talk to them.

On Tuesday the Kremlin recognized them as independent states, prompting Georgia to withdraw all but two of its diplomats from Moscow.

S. diplomats have expressed optimism such a document will be approved.

Western diplomats said on Sunday they were concerned that the Syrian government would continue to escalate attacks.

European diplomats expressed similar frustration that they were powerless to do much now except wait.

Western diplomats have said China maintained an intelligence post in its Belgrade embassy during the Kosovo war.

And she played the part of a ditsy dancer at diplomats' parties, then wrote down everything she heard.

Dodd, like most foreign diplomats in Germany at the time, had to seek compensation for their citizens who had been assaulted by the SA.

it is, after all, as much about the personalities and foibles of those whom diplomats encounter as about grand strategy.

Senior diplomats had privately said they did not want to risk troops' lives to protect another election.

From hosting Sri Lanka's National Day celebration, I learned so much from the artists and diplomats from Sri Lanka.

Leaked cables from U. S. diplomats describe rampant corruption at the top levels of the Afghan government.

The IRF Act calls for training American diplomats to effectively promote religious freedom around the world.

But diplomats at the talks in Brussels say Britain and Germany have rejected a draft that calls for an immediate ceasefire.

This week diplomats at the United Nations were working on the fifth draft of a Security Council resolution on the future of Kosovo.

Diplomats at the United Nations say more than 170 people have been killed in violence following Ivory Coast's disputed election.

Norway was invited to the summit because it had committed to the mission, while Turkey has been resistant, French diplomats said.

American diplomats have already moved to sustain momentum by arranging for parallel talks between the two sides.

But western diplomats said it was hard to ascertain the mood within the army, once led by Mr Musharraf.

On Wednesday, South Korea briefed Chinese diplomats, as well as those of other countries, about its findings.

With so short a time under his belt, however, many diplomats and commentators counsel patience.

Russia has expelled two Canadian diplomats working for Nato's Moscow office in response to an "unfriendly act" by the military alliance.

US diplomats in Beijing said they were not aware that the deal had been revived.

It has become commonplace among diplomats and analysts in China to say that Beijing is becoming more assertive in international affairs.

The campaign has become the focus of concern from diplomats who see in it the emergence of a potentially dangerous trend.

Whereas China's African embassies are large and well staffed, the handful of Indian diplomats in Mozambique struggle to speak Portuguese.

A North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman says this was confirmed at talks last week between Chinese and North Korean diplomats.

European diplomats have been photographed and identified on the programmes as "provocateurs" .

Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.

U. S. diplomats, Australian and New Zealand citizens and Singapore Airlines officials are among those who have been issued thee-passports.

As the west's fighter jets patrol the skies over Libya, President Barack Obama has told his generals and diplomats to stand back.

The status will mean that Portugal will be treated preferentially by Chinese diplomats and that bilateral relations will be increased.

Chinese diplomats have become more assertive since the West fell prey to financial crisis.

American diplomats furiously reject this suggestion, arguing that Kosovo's status must be settled now.

Foreign diplomats touring hospitals to investigate the violence were interrogated at a roadblock outside Harare.

But some diplomats say that China's relationship with Pakistan is purely commercial rather than developmental.

During eruptions of violence, the mantra of diplomats and editorialists is the need for a two-state solution.

His remarks to Russian diplomats Monday in Moscow, however, seemed to indicate concern at the ongoing standoff with Iran.

Some regional diplomats see the Asean group as the kernel of a broader free-trade bloc spanning the Pacific.

She later told diplomats she believed the president was sincere in his desire for reform.

They will doubtless glare at each other for a few more months, and the issues that confront the diplomats now will then return.

In Hama, security forces were reported to have deployed an anti-aircraft gun to fire on civilians, diplomats said.

Religious leaders and diplomats gathered for a candle-lit memorial service in the city's synagogue.

Britain and France also sent their first diplomats to the ceremony in Hiroshima in a sign of support for nuclear disarmament.

To what level can Chinese public security personnel use force against diplomats?

Behind-the-scenes lobbying by Turkish, American and European Union diplomats may have persuaded Mr Erdogan to tone down his language.

I mean, if you remember in the opening weeks, a whole raft of Libyan diplomats around the world defected.

However, since the fighting ceased some allies have become more involved in Libyan affairs, not less, according to Western diplomats.

Diplomats like U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have taken up the issue of improving English skills in China, as well.

Each side in the war agreed to a true while diplomats discussed a peace plan.

Diplomats have run smack up against one of the paradoxes of globalisation.

The biggest worry for companies, however, is not that diplomats have been gossiping about them.

Diplomats and politicians, including Tony Blair, were glad of his advice.

Graduates may serve as labor mediators, political leaders, diplomats, social-service workers, and various other professionals.

They believe the anti-Israel protesters in Cairo were encouraged by the televised scenes of Israeli diplomats hastily leaving Turkey.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When a country employs more military musicians than professional diplomats, it's time to review priorities.