1.   A negative vote, it says, could lead to a diplomatic standoff with Beijing and instability in Asia.

2.   If Italy grants him asylum, the move would inflame an already tense diplomatic standoff.

3.   After a five-week diplomatic standoff, he was allowed to go to Seoul.

4.   APTV has a report on this latest diplomatic standoff inside the European Union.

5.   At a news briefing later, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Chongli was at pains to distance Beijing from the diplomatic standoff between the two Koreas.

6.   But the Kosovo Albanian delegation remained in Kosovo on Friday after an hours-long diplomatic standoff, with Serb officials reportedly balking because two KLA members lacked passports.

7.   Canada released a Spanish trawler on Wednesday, defusing a tense diplomatic standoff with the European Union over fishing rights in international waters in the North Atlantic.

8.   Chinese President Jiang Zemin said early in the diplomatic standoff over the accident that China was exasperated by American surveillance flights near its coast.

9.   Critics say all the past effort at building such personal relationships with Chinese officers seems to have done little good in the diplomatic standoff.

10.   Diplomatic standoff continues.