Diplomats Behaving Badly

Diplomats are allowed various privileges.

They were not allowed diplomats.

Diplomats are locked in embassy compounds.

Turkey seeks missing diplomats following coup attempt

US diplomats were stripped of customary privileges. Threats were made to arrest same sex partners of US diplomats, because Indian law criminalizes homosexuality.

I negotiated with Saddam's diplomats at the U.N.

Further notes with great concern that attacks on foreign diplomats in Iraq have increased in number, and have resulted in the murder or kidnapping of such diplomats

Is this just a game that diplomats and academics play?

Now my diplomats are instructed to talk to all these groups.

We as diplomats need to know the social capital of communities.

Table 8.3. The proportion of female diplomats in embassies by post

In the past, diplomats did not actually represent nation states, but royal courts (in most monarchies this is still officially the case). As a result, European diplomats, for example, were mostly aristocrats, who all spoke French to one another.

By being late in perceiving change that they do not want to see coming, Western diplomats run the risk of losing on both levels the regime and the people. Diplomats require openness and imagination in order to carry out their responsibilities.

There have been escapees among our diplomats as well, Cavosoglu told broadcaster NTV in an interview.

The law on the diplomatic service does not address cases in which both spouses are diplomats.

US diplomats indeed, all countries diplomats might want to consider that, rather than chasing record numbers of social media followers, they should be building trust on all sides in conflict prone societies and looking for more leaders willing to take chances for peace.

By requiring their diplomats to limit their contacts with alternative sources of information in a country, in order to avoid antagonizing despotic regimes, governments irremediably limit diplomats ability to see change coming, even when it is so close that nothing can be done.

Diplomats noted that the Dominican Republic and Panama had already recognized Beijing, with little pushback from Washington.

We who are diplomats, we are trained to deal with conflicts between states and issues between states.

Every day I hope that politicians, diplomats, development workers can turn conflict into peace and threat into hope.

Altogether, 47 diplomats based in New York and representatives of 8 non governmental organizations and regional bodies attended.

Table 8.2. The proportion of female diplomats in the head office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tallinn

In the other two Careers, subordinate even to the lowest ranking of the Diplomats, women, by contrast, form the majority.

Suppose that US diplomats had discovered that democrats living under a brutal military dictatorship were negotiating with junior officers to stage a coup to restore democracy and the rule of law. I would hope that WikiLeaks would not publish a cable in which diplomats informed their superiors of the plot.

Diplomats, instead, should be judged by their ability to enter into a dialogue with all social actors government representatives and business leaders, of course, but also representatives of civil society (even if it exists only in embryonic form). With proper training and incentives, diplomats would be better equipped to anticipate change.

The United Nations family has lost one of its most cherished diplomats, who will always be remembered for his friendly company.

After the initial visit, the Ambassador or other Swedish diplomats were permitted to visit the complainant on a number of occasions.

Training programmes provided by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research to diplomats and delegates accredited to the United Nationsa

NEW YORK Diplomats, normally discreet figures who rarely court publicity, have been in the news a lot lately, for all the wrong reasons. Two recent arrests of diplomats by their host countries have put a spotlight on the justification for, and limits of, the immunity from local law that such officials typically enjoy.

Indeed, papal diplomats not only knew about the plot against Hitler, but sought to mediate between the conspirators and the Allied Powers.

The Conference was attended by roughly160 government ministers, diplomats, United Nations representatives, academics, local elders, NGOs, and members of the private sector.

It is a common phenomenon that when diplomats and bureaucrats fail on the substance, blame is put on the machinery and its procedures.

So, it was his generation of diplomats and leaders that established the United Nations out of the ashes of war six decades ago.

Turkey is seeking at least 32 diplomats who failed to return to Turkey in a recall of personnel following a July 15 coup attempt.

The Security Council also condemns all terrorist attacks in Iraq, including the attempted assassinations of diplomats from Bahrain and Pakistan and attacks against other civilian personnel.

As at October 2004 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had 590 employees, 360 of them women and 230 men and of 343 diplomats 188 were women.

The correction in US policy actually extends even to terminology. American diplomats have now abandoned the term pivot altogether, owing to its military connotation, in favor of rebalancing.

I vividly remember the slightly ludicrous, slightly risqué, and somewhat distressing predicament in which Western diplomats in Prague found themselves during the Cold War. They regularly needed to resolve the delicate issue of whether to invite to their embassy celebrations various Charter 77 signatories, human rights activists, critics of the communist regime, displaced politicians, or even banned writers, scholars, and journalists people with whom the diplomats were generally friends.

First, the US should consider establishing diplomatic relations with Iran and putting diplomats on the ground. This would not be an easy process, and could well meet considerable Iranian resistance.

European diplomats should weigh up the consequences of accommodating Castro s regime. They should show that they will neither ignore his practices nor neglect the suffering of Cuban prisoners of conscience.

These and other achievements of the diplomats assigned here, however, cannot diminish our disappointment over the failure of the principal body, the Conference on Disarmament, to engage in substantive work.

Vice President Mike Pence is now slated to address the conference, now scheduled for mid October, in a signal of the import the administration places on the gathering, the diplomats said.

It was a unique opportunity given to me and to my country to share with you the experience of talented diplomats from all countries, to share your sympathy, friendship and fraternity.

Diplomats say Kim brazenly plays on Chinese fears. If the Chinese do not pump aid into his crumbling economy, he argues, they will face refugees pouring across the border and possible unrest.