There are very few statesmen today worthy of such appellation or admiration. There are more than a few with glib tongues, that can assuage an audience that showed up intent on blood, but most of them are little but frauds. Skillful and capable frauds, but no statesmen. Fidel Castro's son comes to mind. There are others that are not just skillful appeasers, but worthy orators, but, again, most often such are mere conmen, grifting on their skills and without actual visionary policy to implement thereby. Obama strikes me as such an orator, but who simply weaponized bureaucracies to profit his masters and himself, and now is about to be dragged into a cesspit of his own making.

Statesmen? Putin's foreign minister Lavrov perhaps deserves that epithet, although from where I sit I know very little of the potential crimes he could very well be using his ambassadorial skill to cover. I do know he is highly regarded by his diplomatic peers, and there seems to be no weakness of his person that has been able to stick sanctions to him. Xi Jinping, perhaps, deserves such an accolade, although the brutality with which he dealt with associates like Hu Jintao doesn't merit admiration. The brevity of that event in which Hu was disempowered prevented much in the way of understanding, as well as the great cultural and language differences. Overall there seems to be little but admiration for Xi from other Ministers Prime, Presidents, or national leaders, which suggests he has either the qualities of a statesman, or is simply dangerously powerful, and merciless in vengeance.

Robert Fico of Slovakia seems to have demonstrated statesman quality leadership, after being nearly killed by an assassin for principled policy, he has firmly stood by that policy to this day, and also attains to the admiration of his people and his peers in the EU. I could hardly know less about him than that, however.

Have you any statesmen in mind?