Name: Jerry
Posting # 2
Topic: Politics
Title: U.S. diplomat: 'Grueling' effort to patch up international ties
Writer: Jill Dougherty
Publication Name: CNN
Date of Publication: Dec.1
Length: 623 words
This week, the leak in classified U.S. diplomatic informations from "WikiLeaks" has caused great damage in United States' diplomacy. After the incident, U.S. officials are now trying to regain trust from foriegn countries. Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, have been making grueling efforts to minimize the effect of the leak. State Department officials and embassies have reached out a total of 186 governments to reinforce Clinton's message of "our deep regret and underscore steps we've taken to ensure confidentiality and underscore important diplomatic work before us". The secretary, now travelling over Central Asia, is attendind 2 conference meeting with world leaders to show the U.S.'s commitment to diplmacy. The leaked also raised the charge against the Secretary's office as a directive to U.S. diplomats to collect information on foreign UN diplmats was disclosured. The State Department defended the charges, saying that the directive was not an instruction.
In conclusion, several government agencies and the State Department are now taking more control over the access to classified information. Even so, there was still a lot of gaps to fill in our diplomacy. The leak from WikiLeaks will still complicate U.S.'s diplomacy and international cooperation for a long time.
im sure that patching up things with international ties is a great thing but before that U.S starts apologizing you should own up to what was said or written and then apologize.....(it sounds like the document contained gossip about other countries XD)
ReplyDeletebesides when it comes to the relationships between other countries usually friends are just temporary so .....yah...if it wasn't this that could have pissed off the other countries something else would have happen eventually