Sentences with phrase «us diplomatic efforts»

Tillerson said the U.S. is engaged in a very active diplomatic effort to halt Kim's pursuit of a nuclear weapon that could strike the U.S. mainland.

He said the Obama administration has led «intense diplomatic efforts» among the 20 countries involved.

Bilateral diplomatic efforts may buy time for the Iran deal, but it is likely to collapse anyway, analysts say.

U.S. intelligence experts say Pyongyang believes it needs the nuclear weapons to ensure its survival and have been skeptical about diplomatic efforts, focusing on sanctions, to get Pyongyang to denuclearize.

Mattis made clear that the US was nearing the end of its rope in dealing with North Korea, saying: «We're exhausting all possible diplomatic efforts in this regard.»

It also ruins nascent diplomatic efforts, raises fears of war or a pre-emptive U.S. strike and casts a deeper shadow over the security of the Winter Olympics early next year in South Korea.

Burns, who has recently been giving Trump credit for diplomatic efforts with China and North Korea, said the White House needs to separate any U.S. response in Syria and the American relationship with Russia, which has been militarily supporting the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

In the Forbes interview, done Friday, Trump responded to criticism that he's undermined his secretary of state through his often provocative tweets that have interfered directly with ongoing diplomatic efforts.

Still, Evans said, those recent irritants could have — and likely should have — been handled via diplomatic efforts.

North Korean leader Kim Jong - un told a visiting Chinese diplomat yesterday that he is committed to denuclearisation, China's foreign ministry said, as diplomatic efforts to bring lasting peace to the Korean peninsula gather pace.

The Foreign Office is continuing diplomatic efforts in the South Caucasus despite an announcement from Russian president Dmitry Medvedev that he has ordered an end to the military operation.

Diplomatic efforts are focused on Brazil, India and South Africa, a Foreign Office source confirmed.

The violence in South Sudan has since December 2013 claimed the lives of more than 10000 people - a death toll that is rapidly rising as diplomatic efforts have failed to broker a short - term cessation of hostilities, let alone a longer term political solution.

In his Burma speech, president Obama left no doubts as to where Washington will concentrate its diplomatic efforts in the nearest future:

Above all, Meles has personally overseen extensive diplomatic efforts to peacefully manage the secession of South Sudan.

This diplomatic effort needs to be continued if Kenya is to make the most of the potential of the north.

A consistent focus on diplomatic efforts to halt the violence which is killing 5,000 a month should be buttressed by continued leadership towards the humanitarian response.

For example, even though the US was instrumental in establishing the International Criminal Court, in 2002 it withdrew from the UN agreement that created it and began a diplomatic effort to make the U.S. military immune from its writ.

Liberal Democrat MP Michael Moore added his calls for an immediate ceasefire, warning: «For as long as the US, and, by extension, the UK, tolerate the disproportionate military response by the Israelis, the diplomatic efforts will be undermined completely.»

A bravely unfashionable outing for John Baron (short on supporters for his peacenik viewpoint) but sincere nevertheless and outstanding speeches by a host of colleagues, particularly Ben Wallace, who argued from a position of expertise as the joint Chair of the All Party Group on Iran that it was vital to allow political and diplomatic efforts to be exhausted before committing ourselves to miltary action.

Earlier, the prime minister had warned diplomatic efforts to resolve the nuclear dispute with Iran must be stepped up.

Mahmoud Jebril, a leading figure in the push to privatise state - industries under Gaddafi, and Ali Aziz al - Eisawi, former ambassador to India, led the diplomatic efforts.

The United Kingdom, France and Germany tried desperately to convince the U.S. not to withdraw from the Iran deal, which is a signature achievement of EU foreign policy that took a decade of painful diplomatic efforts to seal.

And the government's bombing proposal clearly does not subordinate military action to international diplomatic efforts.

«All necessary pressure and diplomatic efforts must be brought to bear on North Korea to accept peaceful resolution of the crisis,» Buhari said in what could be read as a tacit rebuke of Trump's bombast.

«This week we are going to step up our diplomatic efforts, our humanitarian efforts and make the case for a greater military effort against Isil», the chancellor said.

Russia's G8 partners have condemned Moscow's military build - up in Ukraine amid fresh diplomatic efforts to avert a dangerous escalation of the crisis.

Siegfried Hecker, a professor of management science and engineering at Stanford University and director emeritus of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, said in a letter of support for the award nomination that, since Zerbo became the executive secretary of the CTBTO, his diplomatic efforts «have gone into overdrive.»

«The bottom line is the United States does not want conflict in outer space,» says Frank Rose, assistant secretary of state for arms control, verification and compliance, who has led American diplomatic efforts to prevent a space arms race.

Recovery of the ecosystem and culture of the marshes will likely depend on diplomatic efforts to secure sufficient water, Al - Mudaffar Fawzi says.

We will continue to engage in vigorous diplomatic efforts to urge France to halt its nuclear testing, which could cast a cloud on otherwise sound Japan - France relations.»

A slowing economy in China — a major purchaser of Indonesia's commodities — has been a blow to Indonesia's own economy, and Jokowi has spent a considerable amount of time and diplomatic effort trying to bolster it.

As Australia's chief scientist, Ian Chubb, pointed out, «It stands to reason, then, that scientific expertise should be a fundamental part of diplomatic efforts.

As NGOs look for unofficial ways to conduct effective science diplomacy, the U.S. government continues to pursue its own approach to defining the role that science can play in its diplomatic efforts.

Movie review: The scathing new documentary follows the final year of the Obama administration's diplomatic efforts around the world.

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Can't fault optimism if it is backed by a serious diplomatic effort to engage countries, and so far I think we are seeing that diplomacy unfold.

And the hope is that their latest diplomatic efforts will help more farmers across the world pursue similar solutions.

Despite reportedly strong diplomatic efforts by the German presidency, and support from across Engagement Groups, no consensus could be reached on the matter.

They did this in the teeth of emotional pleas from vulnerable countries and numerous rounds of diplomatic efforts to reach a compromise.

Keeping bomb - making material out of the hands of all but the existing nuclear states has been a guiding principle in diplomatic efforts to restrain North Korea's and Iran's nuclear programs, for example, without denying those countries the right to operate nuclear power plants peacefully.

It says governments, including the UK and Belgium, are undermining their own development assistance and diplomatic efforts to end the 12 - year conflict by failing to crack down on companies based within their borders.

This agreement, and the Arctic Science Ministerial meeting, held at the White House on 28 September 2016, are examples of how science and research across borders can advance diplomatic efforts through soft power, rather than coercion.

Whether the EU's WTO complaint or its ongoing diplomatic efforts will be enough to pressure Argentina to alter its economic policies remains to be seen.

He left an important contribution through his diplomatic efforts in New York», Guetrres said.

Erin is involved in the ongoing diplomatic efforts to prohibit autonomous weapons systems (killer robots) and has spoken on the topic in Canada and at the United Nations.

Not exact matches

Even if it took 10 or 15 years of relentless diplomatic pressure from the joint efforts of the U.S., China, Russia, South Korea, and Japan to convince Kim Jong - un to give up his weapons and doing so resulted in the eventual denuclearization of the peninsula — and successfully deterred war — it would be a major victory for U.S. foreign policy and secure our vital national interests.

«China has poor intelligence on their movements and has been unable to produce much evidence» that they are indeed involved in militancy, said another diplomatic source, who is familiar with Chinese efforts to prevent the Uighurs from leaving and then trying and get them deported back to China.

Lesperance said he suspected Xiao had not renounced his Chinese citizenship, and, for all the efforts taken to acquire an Antiguan diplomatic passport and Canadian citizenship, had failed in a timely fashion to call upon them for help while he was still in Hong Kong.

In a press briefing Thursday, State Department spokesperson John Kirby told reporters that the commercial flight resumption is «just one step» in the two countries» efforts to normalize relations since last year's restoration of diplomatic ties.