This was really about cultural diplomacy, or 'soft power'.

Ah, so that's why this government now thinks the arts are great: cultural diplomacy.

We're talking cultural diplomacy - the idea that the arts can play a decisive part in international relations through winning hearts and minds.

That was where he pioneered his unconventional approach to cultural diplomacy.

Partly the change has come through enthusiastic cultural diplomacy; partly it reflects a change in generational attitudes.

Though no journalists were there to report on it, this was a triumph in economic diplomacy.

Economic diplomacy matters, in making an already close relationship far more effective.

Western governments should not rule out coercive economic diplomacy in protest at the repression.

Economic diplomacy employs economic resources, either as rewards or sanctions, in pursuit of a particular foreign policy objective.

New departments were created, responding to the diversification of the international agenda and the increasing importance of economic diplomacy.

In this crisis, he has also shown impressive substance and pursued highly effective diplomacy.

This crisis demonstrates the desperate need for effective diplomacy to coordinate the efforts of our potential partners in dealing with these intertwined development and security crises.

That means investing in effective diplomacy, not only to promote our commerce, but to understand the people, countries and societies with whom we work across the globe.

And finally, it has got the taste now for multilateral diplomacy.

It will take sensitive multilateral diplomacy to get there, but it can be done.

Circumstances and antiquity have contrived to immerse me for much the greater part of the past 70 years in the problems and opportunities of multilateral diplomacy and negotiation.

He disdains multilateral diplomacy, the mainstay of global relations.

The three ministers insisted in their com-muniqué that they are strongly committed to 'multilateral diplomacy' and that their new grouping was not directed against 'the interests of any other country'.

He has operated with quiet diplomacy, but now a more robust approach seems needed.

Do we want photoshoots and showboating, or hard, cold, quiet diplomacy?

A case can be made, at various times and on various issues, that quiet diplomacy achieves the best results.

That quiet diplomacy has paid off.

The focus would be through foreign affairs departments and aimed at quiet diplomacy.