It's quite challenging in dealing with a country like Venezuela, where the diplomatic relations, if they exist at all, can be strained. — Alejandro Mayorkas Copy Share Image
In January 1961, the United States severed diplomatic relations in response to Cuban nationalisation of U.S.-owned sugar plantations, banks and businesses. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Players have a great deal of flexibility when conducting diplomatic relations with their allies. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If the North Korean side shows no sincerity in solving the nuclear weapon, abduction and missile issues, then the likelihood of normalization… — Koichi Haraguchi Copy Share Image
My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach… — Cyrus Vance Copy Share Image
A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is 60 years since the restoration of diplomatic relations, but relations between Japan and Russia have much deeper roots. In all,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
If we are to retain our position as the world's leading superpower, we must maintain our influence and diplomatic relationships. We cannot… — MJ Hegar Copy Share Image
Honduras is strongly anti-Communist, maintains no diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and has provided vital support for United States-backed rebels fighting… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“In 1784, he will also order his corsairs to capture a US merchant ship, the Betsey. Once they are taken hostage, the… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“International law now covers vast and complex areas of transnational concern, including traditional topics, such as the position of states,59 state succession,60… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“International law now covers vast and complex areas of transnational concern, including traditional topics, such as the position of states,59 state succession,60… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My advice for Obama concerning Iran is just to do what you already promised you would do, open up communications with Iran.… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“China's internal divisions have made it far harder to strike the kind of deals that made it possible for the two countries… — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
“For most of their history in China, Pugs were treasured dogs. By law, they could only be owned by nobility or by… — Liz Palika Copy Share Image
“On January 2, 1956 President Tubman’s staff informed the American Ambassador, General Richard Lee Jones, that the Soviet delegation had sent him… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two Copy Share Image
“The United States became engaged in hostilities with North Vietnam on November 1, 1955, when President Eisenhower deployed the Military Assistance Advisory… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
The diplomatic relations start when the two sides get a bit closer to each other, but U.S and Iran, they are drifting… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
We cannot allow our diplomatic relationship with China to lead to any discrimination against Canadians. — Erin O'Toole Copy Share Image
“I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations. — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
President Obama announced that he's going to reopen diplomatic relations with Cuba. He wants to act before Seth Rogen makes a movie… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That's why we restored diplomatic relations,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can… — Earl Blumenauer Copy Share Image
In terms of the nature of the continuation of the Cold War, which has gone on so long between Cuba and the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because of the regime's support for terrorism. While we… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience. [On diplomatic recognition of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan, when he was campaigning for President, said that he would break relations with Communist China and re-establish diplomatic relations with… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
There is one government with which we keep diplomatic relations, the government of Mexico, with which we have good relations. Our systems… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of… — Nelson Rockefeller Copy Share Image
As for these 60 years, and in general more than a hundred years, we have had different periods in relations and there… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Burma is located between China, India, and South East Asia. So it is quite natural that a country wanting diplomatic relations with… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Since 1981, after our nations severed diplomatic relations, we've worked through a international tribunal to resolve various claims between our countries. The… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
ON WATERGATE: The reluctant cover up of a third rate burglary which President Nixon new nothing about until after the debacle brought… — John Lars Zwerenz Copy Share Image
“On Thursday, February 19, 2015, two months after the United States and Cuba announced a willingness to re-establish normal diplomacy, after over… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“Rolf Ekeus came round to my apartment one day and showed me the name of the Iraqi diplomat who had visited the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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