Sentences with phrase «british high commissioner»

Few people in Ghana attract media attention these days than H.E. Jon Benjamin who is not only the British high commissioner to Ghana but also to Togo, Benin and Burkina Faso.

The minister telephoned the British high commissioner in Ghana on the issue, according to internal government documents cited by the Sunday Times, despite the fact it involved British business interests overseas, which is outside Mitchell's remit.

During the Sierra Leone arms affair, Murray is troubled by a British high commissioner whose propensity for acting outside UK government policy and engagement in diplomatic freelancing results in major scandal.

Not exact matches

Here he describes his equally stormy involvement as deputy head of a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) department in the arms for Sierra Leone affair, when a British company supplied weapons to that country's President in contravention of an embargo; his role as single - handed saviour of Ghanaian democracy when deputy high commissioner in Accra, and his participation in peace negotiations in Togo to end Sierra Leone's civil war.

As an astute lawyer of your calibre and with your long association with the British legal system, I am very sure you know of the latter enactment, by declaring the court of High Commission, which James 11, had endeavoured to reestablish under the name of the commissioners for Ecclesiastical Caucus, to be illegal, put an end for ever to the attempts of the crown to set up courts where men might be tried in an uncertain and arbitrary manner, and which had proved such a fertile source of tyranny in the case of the then star chamber.