He spoke at a ceremony marking the start of work on a new home for the Foreign Service Institute, a school that trains American diplomats.

Everything - keeping track of nuclear weapons, providing economic aid, negotiating treaties, even training diplomats - will be much more complicated now.

Efforts to train diplomats remained as unsuccessful, the real value of such training as open to question, as a hundred years earlier.

The Foreign Service Institute, which trains American diplomats, ranks Chinese as one of the four most time-intensive languages to learn.

In 1971, he entered the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, which trains papal diplomats.

She has trained diplomats and prime ministers for the governments of Israel, France, Switzerland and others.

For example, in 2005, it has trained diplomats for the new governments created after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq for one month each.

In 1724, a donation by George I was intended to provide teaching in French and German to train future diplomats, but the scheme soon failed.

In addition to a handful of Iranian advisers at government ministries, Iranian experts have trained more than 1,200 Afghan teachers, librarians and diplomats.

Its main mission is training new Spanish diplomats as civil servants.