Associated Press
| Apr 7, 2013
US Secretary of State John Kerry is on tour in Istanbul, ahead of his third visit to Israel. Kerry discussed Iran's nuclear program, the Syrian conflict and urged Turkey to restore diplomatic relations with Israel for the benefit of the Middle Eas...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 22, 2013
US President Barack Obama is rounding off his Middle East visit -- and there seems to have been one major development. Israel says it will restore full diplomatic relations with Turkey, after apologizing for a botched naval raid in 2010 that kill...
Russia Today
| Jan 4, 2013
WARNING: Graphic Content. A Japanese special envoy arrived in South Korea on Friday to continue talks aimed at improving diplomatic relations between the two countries. Shortly before the envoy's arrival at Gimpo International Airport a demonstrat...
LinkAsia
| Nov 21, 2012
President Obama visited Thailand to mark 180 years of diplomatic relations between Bangkok and Washington. Thailand is one of Southeast Asia's big economies and a growing trading partner of China. Contributor Ying Panyapon reports on how Thailand'...
Al Jazeera English
| Sep 27, 2012
Japan and China are in a war of words over who owns a chain of islands in the East China Sea, and leaders from both countries say they will not compromise.
The territorial dispute has caused violent protests and confrontations in recent weeks.
S...
Voice of America
| Sep 5, 2012
Democrats this week are fighting back against Republicans who have portrayed the Obama administration's foreign policy as weak and unfocused. Former secretary of state Madeleine Albright defended President Obama's handling of foreign affairs in an...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Aug 21, 2012
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa warns Britain would regret entering the Ecuadorian embassy to seize Julian Assange, while the US State Department argues the Wikileaks founder is trying to deflect attention from sexual assualt allegations i...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Aug 16, 2012
Ecuadorean foreign minister Ricardo Patiño confirms Julian Assange has been granted political asylum. In a strongly worded statement, he said Assange could face political persecution if his extradition was allowed to go ahead, and Sweden an...
France 24
| Aug 10, 2012
Veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi is being touted as the new joint UN-Arab League special envoy for Syria, diplomats said late Thursday. Brahimi would replace Kofi Annan, who announced his resignation citing lack of international support. ...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Aug 2, 2012
Kofi Annan attacks '"finger-pointing and name-calling" at the UN Security Council as he announces his resignation as international peace envoy to Syria.
— Feb 17, 2012 at 10:26 pm
The diplomacy between world powers speeded up Feb. 17, after the U.N. General Assembly intensified the pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad...
— Oct 1, 2012 at 03:05 am
...of the Shia, which is the biggest group in Iraq. Sunnis are represented by the Chairman of the Iraqi Parliament Usama Al-Nujayfi. It cannot be d...
Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states. It usually refers to international diplomacy, the conduct of international relations through the intercession of professional diplomats with regard to issues of peace-making, trade, war, economics, culture, environment, and human rights. International treaties are usually negotiated by diplomats prior to endorsement by national politicians. In an informal or social sense, diplomacy is the employment of tact to gain strategic advantage or to find mutually acceptable solutions to a common challenge, one set of tools being the phrasing of statements in a non-confrontational, or polite manner.
The scholarly discipline of diplomatics, dealing with the study of old documents, derives its name from the same source, but its modern meaning is quite distinct from the activity of diplomacy.
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