But his continued refusal to even talk to the GNA, including his refusal to meet at a highly publicized meeting in Cairo recently, may have convinced the Egyptians and others to recalculate ― and this week's meeting between the Egyptian and American presidents may complicate that divide.
United States and Japanese diplomats said Ms. Tanaka's refusal to meet with Mr. Armitage was especially unfortunate because the meeting had been arranged weeks ago and the deputy secretary was carrying a message from President Bush about his new security strategy.
He has derided François Hollande's refusal to meet Putin in Paris last week as irresponsible.
Menendez supporters write up the incident on Wikipedia, under the heading "Refusal to meet with military families".
Many Pakistanis considered his refusal to meet Mr Sharif's demands about the judges and President Musharraf as feckless.
And despite his refusal to meet US officials directly, he has cooperated with coalition forces and the new Iraqi government.
Archbishop Williams warned, "The refusal to meet can be a refusal of the cross — and so of the resurrection".
A spokesman for the Foreign Office reiterated the foreign secretary's refusal to meet Timerman without Falklands Islands representatives present.
(Mr. Gabler and a college roommate once traded blows over the roommate's refusal to meet his housekeeping standards).
Explaining his refusal to meet the islanders, Timerman, speaking at the Argentinian embassy in Mayfair, said: "We have been trying to find a peaceful solution for 180 years.
(Why are they all Australian? Are they just here for quick working holidays?) The council blames the developers' refusal to meet an affordable-housing quota.
