Hillary Watch: “Clinton leads high-drama cellphone diplomacy from black BMW”
By Bronwyn's Harbor on October 12, 2009 at 4:45 PM in Current Affairs
This is our Hillary. She takes care of business, and she gets historic, difficult diplomatic feats completed.
Uh, I just have to ask: Can you imagine Barack Obama EVER doing something as complex and difficult?
From “Clinton leads high-drama cellphone diplomacy from black BMW at Breitbart.com:
In a black BMW outside a chalet-style hotel in the foothills of the Swiss Alps, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used high-drama cellphone diplomacy to clinch a historic Armenian-Turkish deal.
“There were several times when I said to all of the parties involved that ‘this is too important, this has to be seen through, you have come too far,’” the chief US diplomat recalled afterward on the plane from Zurich to London.
A last-minute hitch had raised doubts over whether Armenia and Turkey would follow through on two years of roller-coaster negotiations to finally sign documents in Zurich on Saturday to normalise ties and open their shared border.
Shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday evening, everything seemed in place for the two sides to mark a first step to reconciliation after a century of hostility over World War I-era massacres.
With her traveling press corps in tow, Clinton’s motorcade arrived at the University of Zurich for the ceremony where foreign ministers Edouard Nalbandian and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu would sign the deal.
Suddenly, the motorcade turned tail and sped back up the hills to the Dolder Grand Hotel. Nalbandian had balked at signing the deal because he had concerns about a statement his Turkish counterpart would read, US officials said later.
It was the start of a three-hour mini diplomatic roller-coaster.
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Clinton used different cellphones inside the car to speak to both the Turkish and Armenian foreign ministers, a senior State Department official told reporters on the condition of anonymity.
There were also calls to the Swiss mediators and other diplomatic players.
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You’ll want to read the entire story about how Hillary pulled this off.
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