Definition of "shuttle diplomacy" []

• Diplomatic negotiations conducted by an official intermediary who travels frequently between the nations involved. (noun)

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• "Ambassador Khalilzad, a shrewd, elegant man with world-weary eyes, explain the delicate shuttle diplomacy in which he was now engaged, to bring Shi’ite, Sunni, and Kurdish factions into some sort of workable unity government."
• "Further rounds of secret negotiations would ultimately lead to Foreign Minister Holst’s very public shuttle diplomacy between Tunis and Jerusalem with the letters of recognition between Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Chairman Arafat during the first week of September 1993."