Word: diplomat
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...talks in Beijing have not gone well. Discussions between U.S. and North Korean diplomats aimed at exploring ways to ease the standoff over the communist country's nuclear program broke off Thursday, a day early, with North Korea warning that it had already developed nuclear weapons and threatening to conduct a "physical demonstration" of its capability. The threat followed Wednesday's comments by a Russian diplomat engaged with the issue that a "catastrophic development" may be days away, and suggests that the North Koreans may planning to test a nuclear device - or, at least, that they want Washington to believe...
...ever will. Reaching compromise on the U.N.'s role won't be easy, so France is trying to signal its goodwill to the U.S. in other forms - notably in the planning for this June's meeting of the G-8, with France presiding in Evian. One impartial western diplomat involved in that process says the French have been "bending over backward" to accommodate American wishes for the event. They have given the Americans "everything they wanted," right down to a preferred time slot for the arrival of Air Force One and a higher profile for counterterror issues on the summit...
...think we have any differences," a senior Turkish diplomat assured Time, even as he agitatedly looked for an agency reporter who had already put out a story that the scrap could be about Iraq...
...said the diplomat. "Our only demand is that Iraq's natural resources should be utilized equally by all the Iraqi people" - a coded demand that the Kurds should not be given control of the northern oilfields...
...decidedly scruffy figures, as hordes of reporters, photographers and TV cameramen turned up for an emergency council of states bordering Iraq. Saudi Arabia had invited the foreign ministers of Syria, Turkey, Iran, Kuwait and also Egypt and Bahrain for a meeting to "crystallize a common stand", as its top diplomat Prince Saud al-Faisal put it, on the momentous events in their neighborhood...