Sentence examples for diplomatic milestone from inspiring English sources

An important diplomatic milestone will come on October 7th or 8th, when the United Nations receives a report on whether its latest resolution is being heeded.

When the first reunion was organized in 2000, it was a diplomatic milestone symbolizing the end of a long chill between North and South Korea, reaffirming their commitment to reunification.

It also agreed to make payments totaling $10 million to each family as diplomatic milestones were met.

In March, Barack Obama made a historic visit, a kind of "we're cool now, yeah?" milestone in diplomatic relations.

It followed the Queen's first state visit to the Republic of Ireland in 2011, which was widely hailed as a diplomatic triumph and a milestone in Anglo-Irish relations.

Australia and Russia celebrated 70 years of diplomatic relations last year and this milestone year saw much reminiscence at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade with a major photographic exhibition.

This was a milestone in the diplomatic process that began a year ago this week when the Assad government was accused of using sarin gas to kill more than 1,000 people in a rebel-held suburb near Damascus.

He told the Lowy Institute the milestone was proof the west's diplomatic pressure and sanctions against Russia – which is backing separatist rebels in the east – were bearing fruit.

By its unusual informality, the presidents' two-day meeting is already being interpreted as a milestone in their nations' often tense and generally stilted four-decade diplomatic history.

Lee Wolosky, the US State Department's special envoy for closing Guantánamo Bay, praised "sustained diplomatic engagement" and "our friends and partners in the Gulf" for the resettlement, and publicly forecast the next milestone.

Milestone after milestone has fallen.