The phrase "diplomatic formula" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a phrase or statement that is carefully crafted to avoid offending or causing conflict, often used in diplomatic or political contexts. Example: The two leaders exchanged diplomatic formulas in their joint statement, carefully avoiding mentioning any sensitive issues that could strain their relationship.
One set is to discuss Kashmir, but, in a painstakingly wrought diplomatic formula, the issue was accorded no "central" role.
She told ABC television that Israel had the right to defend itself, but she added, in the diplomatic formula usually used by the administration after such killings, that Israel should "take into consideration the consequences of anything that it does".
But even as Mr. Brahimi and other international diplomats warned Thursday of the high cost Syrians would pay if his efforts failed, there was no immediate sign of a new diplomatic formula that would be acceptable to both the government and its opponents.
Though his blunt tone differed from the usual flow of diplomatic formulas, most diplomats in the hall were also New York residents who lived through the horror of the attacks and who regarded Mr. Giuliani not only as their sometimes critical host, but also as their mayor.
But, according to Hammurabi's date formulas and contemporary diplomatic correspondence, these operations led no further because Hammurabi shifted the direction of his military operations in 1784 toward the northwest and the east.
JERUSALEM — Israeli officials said Wednesday that efforts were under way to calm tensions with the Obama administration and come up with a formula to defuse a diplomatic crisis over building in contested East Jerusalem.
The generals and admirals were confident that their forces could beat back insurgents, but they feared that their diplomatic counterparts could not broker a formula for political power-sharing among rival sects and ethnicities.
Other concessions are likely to follow, if the Arab League, which has sent in a hurried diplomatic mission, can find a face-saving formula.
"It is such an exceptional case that each country will have to find the formula within humanitarian law," the Spanish diplomatic official said.
While Mr. Bolton is here, Mr. Powell will be in Beijing and Seoul, seeking to stiffen the resolve of North Korea's neighbors to put more diplomatic pressure on the North to find a formula for its nuclear disarmament.
The same formula should be applied to Mr. Obama's diplomatic strategy as he seeks to strike up new relationships with countries with faulty human rights records.
