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#Diplomacy

8 entries tagged Diplomacy.

People (1)

  • Galo Plaza Galo Plaza Lasso served as president of Ecuador (1948-1952) and secretary-general of the OAS (1968-1975), and was a consistent ally of Nelson Rockefeller from the Chapultepec conference of 1945 through the 1960s.

Organizations (1)

  • Palestine Liberation Organization The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), founded 1964 and led by Yasser Arafat's Fatah from 1969, conducted guerrilla campaigns from Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia before the 1994 Oslo Accords established it as the recognized Palestinian representative body and created the Palestinian Authority.

Programs (1)

  • Atoms for Peace Atoms for Peace was Eisenhower's 1953 initiative to promote civilian nuclear energy by sharing technology and materials internationally, which inadvertently accelerated nuclear proliferation including Israel's Dimona program.

Events (4)

  • Bandung Conference 1955 meeting of Asian and African states in Indonesia that established the Non-Aligned Movement, attended by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and shaping Cold War diplomacy.
  • Camp David summit The Camp David Accords were the September 1978 framework agreements produced by thirteen days of secret negotiations between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, facilitated by U.S. President Jimmy Carter at the presidential retreat in Maryland.
  • Geneva Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy 1955 international scientific conference in Geneva with 1,500 delegates from 70 nations, marking the first major open exchange of nuclear knowledge.
  • Paris Summit Meeting 1960 summit between Eisenhower and Khrushchev that collapsed after the U-2 Incident, derailing a potential US-Soviet detente.

Concepts (1)

  • Ostpolitik Ostpolitik was West German Chancellor Willy Brandt's 1969-1974 policy of normalizing relations with East Germany and the Soviet bloc, producing the 1970 Treaty of Moscow, the Treaty of Warsaw, and the 1972 Basic Treaty recognizing East Germany, for which Brandt received the 1971 Nobel Peace Prize.