But no one is promising or expecting a U.S. effort at shuttle diplomacy to resolve this crisis.
Various U.N. resolutions, numerous shuttle diplomacy missions and the Oslo process have all been predicated on the land-for-peace proposition.
Diplomats have been meeting in New York after days of shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East to look for a compromise.
But obviously, this is day two of this sort of shuttle diplomacy, this charm offensive as some have described it right now.
Sarkozy's shuttle diplomacy was preceded earlier Tuesday by a statement from Medvedev on national television that the Russian military was being called off the attack.
Here in Damascus, I've been speaking to a senior official doing a lot of his shuttle diplomacy, at least to Moscow and Tehran.
"He is trying some sort of shuttle diplomacy, " said the official.
The development came just hours after the U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke ended another day of shuttle diplomacy aimed at keeping the Dayton peace process on track.
Blair also updated France's President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and Germany's Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on his controversial round of Middle East shuttle diplomacy last week.
"We have just started proximity talks, that is shuttle diplomacy, between the Palestinians and the Israelis, and for this announcement to come at that time was very destructive, " he said.
There is a motion to be negotiated and shuttle diplomacy to be conducted between the fractious tribes of Tory euroscepticism - so it may be that they aim for a debate in November or later.
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The South African president, eager to show some progress in his faltering shuttle diplomacy, flew to Harare on July 5th and met Mr Mugabe and Arthur Mutambara, the leader of a small MDC splinter party.
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