Word: interlocutor
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...first that when someone sees you in the street and asks ‘how are you?’ it’s a form of greeting.” The FIPper would respond as if the greeting were an inquiry, pouring out his every concern while his interlocutor walked on by.“AN INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY NOT A FOREIGN SOCIETY”Woodbridge believes that experiences like these highlight a need for a body that provides internationals with opportunities to integrate themselves beyond the efforts of FIP. While FIP provides a necessary introduction, it can?...
...detention of Iranian security officials in Iraq, and the raid on its official liaison office in Erbil. Both acts might have provoked a harsher response were Tehran more confident that Washington's confrontational rhetoric was meant only to intimidate. Former president Mohammad Khatami, viewed here as a valuable interlocutor in dealing with the United States, attended a session with Senator Bob Kerrey at the World Economic Summit in Davos - under normal circumstances such a meeting would leave radicals here livid...
...first of all, they came back. And even though there is no outcome in those talks, there were actually some fairly beneficial discussions. And I think we've managed this pretty well. Chris Hill has been able in the context of six-party talks to engage his North Korean interlocutor without allowing it to become a U.S.-North Korean negotiation. But that engagement has clearly helped. It's helped moved things along. And so - and China's activism has been really good...
...caveat debate because its 2,900 troops are restricted to the more secure regions of Kabul and the north. Karsten Voigt, coordinator for U.S.-German relations in the Foreign Ministry, says he is under constant pressure to do more in Afghanistan: in Washington last month, he says, one interlocutor told him that "Germans have to learn how to kill." Berlin will not budge, though, since neither the government nor the public has the stomach for putting German soldiers in harm's way. Mindful of that political reality, Bush isn't likely to push for a sea change. Nevertheless...
...Pope's pursuit of his newfound calling as Islamic interlocutor will be tricky, theologically and politically. Unlike the holy books of Judaism and Christianity, the Koran and Hadiths contain verses precisely regulating the conduct of war and exhorting Muslims to wage battle against various enemies. The bellicosity of some Koranic passages owes much to the fact that they were written at a time when Muslims were engaged in almost constant warfare to defend their religion. But when suicide bombers today go to their fates with the Koran's verses on their lips, it invites questions about Islam's credentials...