"If you want to speculate that there is some kind of secret diplomacy involved in it, you'd be right, " a senior Israeli official said on Thursday.
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In 1810, Speransky was still in high favor and was the confidant of the emperor in the secret diplomacy which preceded the breach of Russia with Napoleon.
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There is still another level of secret diplomacy, where everyone knows who is negotiating and what the stakes are, but the hosts stage-manage what information gets out.
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Referring to the secret diplomacy that preceded President Nixon's ground-breaking visit to China in 1972, he said : " We shouldn't have waited for Nixon and Kissinger ."
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But the ambassadors and some Democrats argued that the decision was not a covert operation, like the Iranian arms sales, but secret diplomacy that sought to save lives.
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Their ten-year marriage was turbulent, and they were generally felt to be each other's match in every way ( as both were masters of intrigue and secret diplomacy ).
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Kissinger, secretary of state in the Nixon and Ford administrations, used secret diplomacy in playing a pivotal role in establishing a U . S . dialogue with Communist China.
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For instance, speaking at the 1990 National Prayer Breakfast, President George H . W . Bush praised Coe for his " quiet diplomacy, I wouldn't say secret diplomacy ".
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Frederick, who resented the broken promises and secret diplomacy of the French court during the Silesian Wars, was amenable, and England remained his only steady ally throughout the Seven Years'War.
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At the 1990 National Prayer Breakfast, President George H . W . Bush praised Doug Coe for what he described as " quiet diplomacy, I wouldn t say secret diplomacy ."
