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Catchword for “awkward squad”
Catchword: awkward squad
Filed Under: ,
Part of Speech: n.
Quotation: The negotiations have been caught in a squeeze between Mr Bolton, and a group of countries that one diplomat referred to as “the awkward squad,” which includes Pakistan, Egypt, Sudan, the Palestinian Authority, Syria, Cuba and Venezuela.
Article or Document Title:
“Poor nations lose in watered-down UN document” (URL)
Author:
Ewen MacAskill, Larry Elliott
Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
Guardian
Publishing Location:
U.K.
Date of Publication:
Sept. 14, 2005
This catchword has yet to be researched.
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