India suspended dialogue with Pakistan after the attacks, and back-channel negotiations on Kashmir that had been going on for several years had stopped even before then, when then-president Pervez Musharraf's government began unraveling.
More plausible, however, is the interpretation that North Korea broke with the IAEA for the same reason that it earlier suspended dialogue with South Korea: both were on the brink of getting serious, and North Korea is not yet ready - and perhaps never will be - to either abandon its bomb or start serious exchanges with Seoul.
Saudi Arabia says it has suspended dialogue with Qatar, shortly after a phone call between the Qatari leader and the Saudi crown prince.
The Coalition of Youth of the Revolution, an association of groups that had helped organize the revolution, said it would suspend any dialogue with the military until the crackdown was investigated and people were held accountable.
He was the one to unilaterally suspend the dialogue, just before the EU meeting, accusing the EU of trying to destabilise him by pressing for press freedoms and the banning of the death penalty.
And parts of the leadership want a way out of this stalemate.These moderates' voices were drowned in the whipped-up wrath at this week's EU decision to suspend "critical dialogue" and ministerial contacts, because of Iran's government-sponsored murder of Kurdish-Iranian dissidents in Germany in 1992.
With John, I could jest and curse and argue, give wild voice to my thoughts, and, if I overshot with my ignorance and bombast or muddled the matter with a bout of plain confusion, he'd suspend the dialogue with a groan of "Oh, C-R!" and re-stoke the pipe bowl, using his thumb as a damper, before steering me back to the issue at hand.
The Israeli foreign ministry has summoned the EU ambassador to Israel and said it would suspend diplomatic dialogue in the coming weeks.
"The President had no choice but to suspend the dialogue," said California Rep. Mel Levine (D-Santa Monica), a member of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East.
On Capitol Hill, the leaders of both parties were quick to praise Bush's decision to suspend the dialogue with the PLO.
Why not issue a statement that the U.S. will give Arafat a certain period--10 days, perhaps--to live up to his anti-terror and anti-incitement responsibilities or else it will once again suspend that dialogue?
