Washington reinforced this message when the high-level emissaries it sent to consult with Asian leaders on American missile defense plans conspicuously omitted Beijing from their itinerary.
WASHINGTON — Signaling his determination to use diplomacy to address the world's toughest conflicts, President Obama went to the State Department on Thursday to install high-level emissaries to handle the Arab-Israeli issue and Pakistan and Afghanistan.
They note that for many years U.S. officials treated the Yugoslav president as the linchpin of America's Balkan diplomacy, an indispensable interlocutor for Bosnia peace negotiator Richard C. Holbrooke and other high-level emissaries.
Even Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, once the "mad dog of the Middle East," in President Ronald Reagan's words, was eager for closer ties with the United States, and American diplomats sent high-level emissaries to the Syrian capital, Damascus, in the hope of sweet-talking President Bashar al-Assad at least a few steps away from Tehran and closer to Washington.
They can be especially helpful in markets where high-level emissaries are helpful in cultivating relationships and conveying respect on behalf of the United States.
In a rare thaw in relations between the two countries, North Korea agreed Tuesday to send athletes and high-level emissaries to the games, after conducting its first formal diplomatic talks with Seoul in more than two years.
He is accused of being a high-level emissary from Al Qaeda to terrorists in Iraq.
To prevent this, Washington should have a high-level emissary, clearly representing the Bush administration, alongside the European Union's Javier Solana.
It was only in June that the Saudi government, under pressure from the United States, moved to dissolve the charity, a delay the study blamed on ineffective American diplomacy, including the Bush administration's failure to share intelligence with the Saudis and its failure to appoint a high-level emissary to press Saudi Arabia on the issue until early 2003.
But critics at home have accused Mr. Brown of duplicity for allowing officials of his government to assure the United States that Mr. Megrahi would serve out his term in Scotland while high-level British emissaries were telling the Libyan government he favored Mr. Megrahi's going home to die from his terminal prostate cancer.
