He was no match for his slippery adversary in a diplomatic dialogue, and he knew it.
That would effectively end diplomatic dialogue between the two countries and could lead to heightened military tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
But the time for merely engaging in diplomatic dialogue with the Syrians on the drug trade is over, the report said.
Or Israel could implement the tribal solution, which might at a later stage grow into a diplomatic dialogue.
Now that the Americans have, in effect, sanctioned a diplomatic dialogue with Baghdad, everyone is going to get in on the act as never before.
It's his invitation to the United States to reopen diplomatic dialogue.
One official said that if serious diplomatic dialogue between the two nations resumed, it would probably be undertaken in Pretoria, not here.
We should never believe that just a diplomatic dialogue can sort out every issue that has been addressed here: it cannot.
I do not think there is any solution if we do not engage in a true diplomatic dialogue on that.
Surely you don't mean that I should engage him in some sort of diplomatic dialogue.