Sentence examples for diplomat requesting from inspiring English sources
"The Chinese expert refused to sign the report, under pressure from Beijing, and this raises serious issues about a panel of experts that is supposed to be free from political interference," said a senior United Nations diplomat, requesting anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the issue.
A NATO diplomat, requesting anonymity because he had not been authorized to speak on the matter, said, "Unless the E.U. imposes conditions on Russia and is allowed to deploy across Ossetia and Abkhazia, then this risks becoming a frozen conflict, in which the E.U. monitors will be monitoring the Georgians while the Russians can do what they want".
There was a weird mix of people: foreigners on tours, an ultimate Frisbee team, guys from Yale saying "this is cool," middle aged Romanian diplomats requesting obscure Romanian disco.
Mexican diplomats requested the raid after they had met several times with the young men and concluded that they were not political refugees but economic ones.
In his memoir Survival for Service (2003), Scoon said the letter was probably faked by Washington for Reagan's own purposes but that he had, indeed, verbally through diplomats, requested American intervention.
"We cannot tell you because we do not want the pirates to know," one diplomat said, requesting anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
"I tell people who worry about Lieberman that I worry too," a senior Israeli diplomat said, requesting anonymity to speak freely of his boss.
"There was a tremendous amount of pressure on all members by the Americans," said an Arab diplomat, who requested anonymity according to diplomatic protocol.
A copy of the proposals, stamped "restricted," was provided to The New York Times by a Western diplomat who requested anonymity because under diplomatic protocol the document is considered confidential.
I asked a Brussels diplomat (who requested no specific identification) for his more sober reading.
He has not, however, completely ruled out the prospect, according to one European diplomat who requested anonymity.
