Word: diplomat
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...Musharraf for failing to rein in the militants. But officials on both sides say the partnership between Bush and Musharraf remains solid. "Is it doing more? Well, yeah, it's doing more. We all gotta do more, do better, do different. It's a war," says a senior Western diplomat in Pakistan. "But for folks to sit there in Washington or London or wherever and say, 'Damn it! We're tired of this. Go fix it,' is not hugely helpful...
...talking about behavior that is unbecoming of a diplomat." ZEHAVIT BEN-HILLEL Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson, on Tsuriel Raphael, Israel's ambassador to El Salvador, who was recalled after reportedly being found by police drunk, naked and wearing bondage gear in the yard of his embassy residence...
Hans Blix, the Swedish diplomat famed for his recent work as U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, said last night that the United States should spearhead the nuclear disarmament effort. He spoke before a full audience in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room. The U.S. is a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968, but has refused to sign the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which has been ratified by 138 states world wide. “I would like to see the U.S. come back to the role of ‘lead wolf’, and come...
...When he invited me to see him, I thought it was to say farewell. A law professor turned diplomat, he is not a supporter of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Instead, he has been aligned with the more pragmatic elements in Iran, and last month he was told that he was being recalled. But upon arriving, I find that he has been given a reprieve (or, perhaps, an extension of his sentence) by leaders in Tehran. They want him to stay for one last attempt to resolve the dispute over Iran's nuclear program...
Richard Land, the Southern Baptists' ambassador to the very earthly kingdom of politics and policy (his official title is President of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant denomination) is a diplomat and an affable character, so when he speaks plainly the words carry weight. And his salvos launched at Republican front-runner Rudy Giuliani were the warning shots in the evangelical primary: who has the strongest claim to the hearts and minds of the G.O.P. base...