But Khaled Meshal looks keener to reach out to Mr Abbas and to make emollient noises about Israel.
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But since Pope Benedict took office last year, the Vatican's attitude has become fractionally, but unmistakably, less emollient.
Mr Yeltsin did find a few emollient words for Mr Maskhadov this week.
The second emollient is that the real has depreciated by 17% against the dollar since its peak in late July.
Mr Tusk's emollient, pro-EU stance contrasts sharply with the Kaczynskis' abrasive style.
An emollient is rubbed into the skin to soothe and moisten it, while a soap substitute is simply used to keep it clean.
Several children who found aqueous cream irritating when applied as an emollient reported no problems when it was used as a soap substitute.
The generals may also hope to ease pressure from critical western governments and more emollient regional neighbours for a dialogue with the opposition.
In a notably emollient tone, he said that the pair in question would meet next week and would, he forecast, resolve any differences.
Since he became prime minister in 2007, the emollient Donald Tusk has made friends with Germany and is now thawing relations with Russia too.
Emollient behaviour, such as Poland's current diplomacy under its polished prime minister, Donald Tusk, may bring modest rewards, but stroppiness has incurred little visible penalty.
As Ms. DeSimone advises, I waited until it dried to wash it off and ended up with a rich emollient layer on my face long after removal.
The disdain for diplomacy and other foreign entanglements is already proving expensive, and at some stage the United States will surely want to engage with allies on more emollient terms.
The Gaza crisis also triggered a round of name-calling within the world of British Islam that has laid bare a rapid diminution of the middle ground on which emollient types hope to stand.
The BBC's Justin Webb in Washington says that for most of the interview, Mr Obama appeared determined to be emollient and - as he put it repeatedly - respectful, stressing that the US would begin by listening rather than dictating.
In an article in the Times, the Romanian prime minister strikes a more emollient tone, inviting Britons to come and enjoy a "strong pint" in Bucharest's Old Town or a "quiet holiday" in the sleepy Transylvanian villages beloved by Prince Charles.
Many of them want Mr Lieberman, who apparently has no desire to seek a deal with the Palestinians, to abandon Israel's ruling coalition and for Tzipi Livni and her more emollient Kadima party, with its 28 seats, to join it instead.
By Harold Wilson's time in the 60s, even despite the Vietnam War, friends of the special relationship were fortunate: Wilson's Foreign Secretaries for most of his tenure were Labour conservatives George Brown and Michael Stewart, whose pro-American sympathies were accepted by an emollient "beer and sandwiches" Premier anxious to maintain peace in a fractious government.
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