Sentences with phrase «diplomatic sources»

Saudi Arabia's King Salman Al - Saud will not attend the G20 summit due to the Gulf crisis, Saudi diplomatic sources said on Monday.

«If you want to shoot — shoot, don't talk,» Ynetnews quoted an Israeli diplomatic source as saying.

Liu's trip aims to resume the comprehensive bilateral economic dialogue, according to diplomatic sources in Beijing.

One diplomatic source suggested to the Telegraph that the arms rhetoric had simply been part of a plan by Britain to encourage Damascus to take part in the forthcoming Syria peace conference in Geneva saying: «this was never about arming the rebels.

According to diplomatic sources Mr Obama, now the president - elect of the United States, emerged from the meeting in July with the words: «What a lightweight.»

One senior diplomatic source said that Downing Street is deadly serious about lining up Britain's former European trade commissioner for one of two posts:

The intelligence came from diplomatic sources and spies working for U.S. allies, the officials said.

The European Union will lift its sanctions on Belarus, including those on Lukashenko, for four months after Sunday's vote, barring any last - minute crackdown, diplomatic sources said on Friday.

«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.

Diplomatic sources have accused China of using «divide and rule» tactics, by getting eastern members of the EU to block or contest decisions on political issues, such as the South China Sea disputes, which Beijing considers unfavourable, as it did with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Some diplomatic sources are suggesting Britain could even support an independence declaration if the Israelis continue to refuse to negotiate.

But a diplomatic source told the Guardian that «Kim is talking to everyone».

While Russia will not permit a return to such numbers it is prepared to consider the re-opening of around ten offices, a diplomatic source told politics.co.uk.

Diplomatic source says UK officials proposed wording in meetings in Shanghai before George Osborne arrived

According to diplomatic sources, even officials at the Trump White House «don't want to go anywhere near Boris because they think he's a joke».

China has threatened to attack Vietnamese bases over gas drilling in the disputed South China Sea region, according to diplomatic sources.