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• n  wisdom in the management of public affairs

• President Rene Preval, respected for his probity but criticized for his lack of leadership and statesmanship, has been trying to improve Haiti's squalid conditions since taking .
• It will be a week in which Obama tries to strike a delicate balance between statesmanship and politics.
• This poses a challenge to statesmanship on both sides of the Pacific.

• statecraft
• diplomacy

News & Articles

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• Ban calls for end to Saddam-era sanctions against Iraq
  United Nations (AFP) June 18, 2013 UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday called for the end of the threat of sanctions against Iraq for its 1990 invasion of Kuwait amid a significant thaw between the neighbors. Ban said both governments have shown "statesmanship and respect" in healing the scars of the invasion that led to the creation of an international coalition to expel Saddam Hussein's forces ...
  June 19, 2013 - Space War

Quotes

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• Manmohan Singh in Press Trust of India
  A day after he met Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari in Yekaterinburg, Singh said if the Pakistani leadership shows "courage, determination and statesmanship to take the high road to peace, India will meet it more than half the way".
• John Kerry in BusinessWeek
  This is a moment for statesmanship,Kerry said in a statement. "As soon as the president sends the agreement to the Senate, we will appeal to all our colleagues to set aside preconceptions and partisanship and consider the treaty on its...
• President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in GulfNews
  I commend the decision of the House leadership as an act of statesmanship to unify not only the two chambers of the legislature but the whole nation around the issue of charter change,said Arroyo in a statement yesterday.