American, European and Russian diplomats urged calm and restraint.

Western diplomats, chary of further destabilizing the region, are urging Montenegrins to bide their time.

Foreign diplomats and regional leaders have been urging the government to take the step for months.

On both sides of the Atlantic, anxious diplomats and military advisors urged their leaders to give in.

Meanwhile, aid workers and diplomats urged the government to declare a state of emergency.

He is solidly backed by the United States, although American and other foreign diplomats have urged him to be more open.

Belgian business groups and American and Israeli diplomats are urging the opposite result.

Although officials and diplomats urged calm and promised the return of order, little authority was in evidence on the capital's streets early Sunday.

But American diplomats have been privately urging the main political leaders to work for a broad-based government that will present a common front to the insurgents.

The diplomats urged "measures to facilitate the work of the caretaker government to stabilize public finances" and institute reforms.