Word: diplomatized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...B.C.C.I. debacle even rubbed off on the U.N. and its Secretary-General, Javier Perez de Cuellar. The U.N. sullenly confirmed reports that Perez de Cuellar twice took trips in 1986 and 1987 on planes owned by Pharaon. The diplomat has said he was unaware at the time of problems at B.C.C.I...
...trigger-happy when he arrives in Moscow this week for talks with Mikhail Gorbachev. And Arab allies, whose cooperation is crucial to any Middle East peace conference, have signaled their distaste for new bombardments. "Most of our people think the Iraqis have suffered enough already," says a senior Egyptian diplomat...
...stay beyond the publicly announced withdrawal date of Sept. 1," says a State Department official, "and we may soon sign a protection agreement, but a long-term commitment of ground forces is not in the cards." The U.S. is not completely against the idea, explains a Western diplomat in Kuwait, "but Washington won't go along unless an Arab force is present as cover. Getting labeled as Kuwait's sole guarantor would only confirm the fears of those who think the U.S. wants to control the region militarily, and an overall Middle East peace would then be even harder...
...states that opposed any dealing with Israel. But, American analysts believe, at the end of the gulf war Assad realized he had reached a turning point: he could become the unrivaled leader of Arab radicals -- or he could bid for status among the moderates. Assad decided, as one American diplomat puts it, that "the future is with the U.S. and with the Cairo-Riyadh-Damascus axis" -- and that only the U.S. could help Syria recover the Golan Heights from Israel...
...notice that they cannot expect large-scale aid and investment until they translate their words into action. In a separate session, the Western finance ministers told Primakov that the Soviets would have to "earn" future aid by proving the reality of their economic transformation. Complained a senior Soviet diplomat: "It is humiliating. They talked like bankers...