Sentences with phrase «embassy said»

The United States and Ghana are planning joint security exercises in 2018, which require access to Ghanaian bases by US participants and those from other nationals when included,» a statement from the US Embassy said.

It noted that «With Ghana's graduation to a middle - income country, and the prospects of sustainable economic growth, Denmark is gradually transitioning from development cooperation to trade cooperation in line with the visions by the Government of Ghana,» the Embassy said.

According to him, the US Embassy said it was because his name was among a looters list submitted to it by the federal government arguing that the publication of his name as a looter was malicious since he has not been convicted by any court of competent jurisdiction.

The spokesman for the Afghan embassy said: «President Ghani and his government since in office have taken major steps to fight corruption.

Thursday's Ramadan dinner, called an iftar, featured a call to prayer, during which the dining room at the ambassador's residence was turned into a Muslim prayer space, the embassy said.

(CNN)- The Israeli ambassador to the United States hosted a dinner celebrating the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Thursday, marking the first time an ambassador from the Jewish state has hosted such a dinner in the United States, the embassy said.

«As the Chinese saying goes, it is only polite to reciprocate,» the embassy said, adding that China intends to pursue the matter with the World Trade Organization and enact «corresponding measures of equal scale and strength against U.S. products.»

However, a breakthrough was viewed as highly unlikely, especially as the U.S. embassy said their delegation would leave as early as Friday evening.

But China is not afraid of and will not recoil from a trade war,» the embassy said in a statement sent to reporters.

At the forum, Saudi Arabia's U.S. embassy said the kingdom had signed 36 memorandums of understanding, totaling more than $ 20 billion in new business partnerships.

The embassy said in a statement that Russian officials who visited the town of Douma in Syria - the site of a...

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The embassy say there is no evidence for a chemical attack: «Russian services for chemical and radiological security visited the suspected site of the incident and did not find any traces of chemical substances.

Visas for Western countries are in high demand in Africa and embassies say the visa market is a big target for organised crime.

Not exact matches

Pompeo also said that the relocation of the American embassy to Jerusalem, a move set to take place on May 14, was «recognising (the) reality» of «Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the seat of its government.»

«We condemn in the strongest possible terms the violent dispersal of the protest here at US Embassy which was led by our fellow Moro and Indigenous Peoples,» Jerome Aba, the national spokesman of Suara Bangsamoro, a leftist group representing indigenous peoples in the Philippines, said in a statement.

About 20 people were arrested as a result of the clashes, including some people who the police said ran into police lines and threw red paint at the US Embassy.

Authorities in Ghana have busted a fake U.S. embassy in the capital Accra run by a criminal network, the U.S. State Department said.

«Reason I canceled my trip to London is that I am not a big fan of the Obama administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London for «peanuts,» only to build a new one in an off location for $ 1.2 billion,» Trump said on Twitter.

It said some officials believed he decided not to come because he felt the arrangements for the visit were too low key, and would instead send Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to open the embassy.

Assange, 45, who remains at the Ecuadoran embassy in London where he sought refuge in 2012 to avoid possible extradition to Sweden, said the election material was «significant» and would come out before the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election.

Asked how he felt after four years in the embassy, he said «pale» and joked he would be a good candidate for medical study since he was otherwise healthy but had not seen the sun in over four years.

The Bank of Canada and the embassy declined to comment, but the Canadian official says, «I think they only heard what they wanted to hear.»

Pompeo also said that the relocation of the American embassy to Jerusalem, a move set to take place on May 14, was «recognizing (the) reality» of «Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the seat of its government.»

The five passengers say they called the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and were told that they were in the right, and as U.S. citizens they shouldn't be sent to India.

The Journal said Daghman was possibly meant to take up the post of charge d'affaires, which would have made him the embassy's number two.

Turkey suspects the U.S. of having helped to plan the failed coup of President Erdogan in 2016 and claims it is now protecting Turks who were involved; The U.S. says Turkey has flouted due process in its arrest of the embassy worker and that there is no evidence of U.S. involvement in the coup.

During his tenure, embassy officials «advanced American values» by meeting with religious leaders and human rights lawyers and visiting Tibetan and Uighur ethnic minorities in Tibet and Xinjiang, Locke said.

The Dutch embassy in Ankara and consulate in Istanbul have been sealed off for «security reasons», Turkish foreign ministry sources said on March 11, as tensions soar between Turkey and the Netherlands after a Dutch ban on the Turkish foreign minister's visit.

«In the coming weeks, a date will be established for the proceedings to be held at the Embassy of Ecuador in the United Kingdom», Ecuador's foreign ministry said in the statement.

In late May, a Swedish lower court upheld the arrest warrant for Assange, saying the stay at Ecuador's London embassy did not equal detention.

Ecuador will allow Swedish prosecutors to interview Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in its London embassy, where Assange has been living since June 2012, Ecuador's foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

«For more than four years, the government of Ecuador has offered to cooperate in facilitating the questioning of Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, as well as proposing other political and legal measures, in order to reach a satisfactory solution for all parties involved in the legal case against Julian Assange, to end the unnecessary delays in the process and to ensure full and effective legal protection, Ecuador said in a statement, Press Association reported.

«We have security officers at every embassy and they give us constant updates,» one diplomat said.

Cuba's Communist government is likely to act in sync with the United States on reopening of the embassies, issuing its own announcement on restoring ties, one source said.

The two sides hope to conclude the deal by the first week of next month, clearing the way for Secretary of State John Kerry to visit Havana soon afterwards for a flag - raising ceremony to upgrade the U.S. Interests Section to a full - scale embassy, the sources said.

The prosecution says the attack was linked to a hostage - taking at the French embassy in the Dutch capital The Hague that had begun two days earlier, on September 13, 1974.

The sources said the administration hoped to formally notify Congress within the next two weeks of its intention to reopen the Havana embassy.

The younger man's trauma was reported to DeLaurentis and the embassy's diplomatic security chief, Anthony Spotti, on Dec. 30, State Department officials said, and followed by word that the two other CIA officers had experienced something similar about a month before.

Around the time that the first intelligence officers were sent to the US for treatment on Feb. 6, the wife of another embassy staffer, who lived near the Havana coastline in the neighborhood of Flores, reported hearing similar, disturbing sounds, two officials familiar with her account said.

Part of the problem, diplomats said, was that he concluded the meeting by asking the assembled staff to avoid talking about the situation outside the secure confines of the embassy, even with their families.

By mid-January, after the other two intelligence officers also sought medical attention at the embassy, the matter began to take on a more ominous cast, several officials said.

The ministry said it had no plans to reduce diplomatic staffing levels in Havana, and it quickly replaced the three embassy families that chose to return home because of the problem.

At work that day, an embassy colleague with whom he was friendly took him aside and said he was leaving Cuba right away.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The Obama administration is expected to announce an agreement with Cuba in early July to reopen embassies and restore diplomatic relations severed more than five decades ago, U.S. sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.

«You have to do your homework, even before you contact the Canadian consulates or embassies,» he says.

He also ordered that 35 Russian diplomats from the Russian Embassy in Washington and the Russian Consulate in San Francisco be ejected from the United States, and closed Russian compounds in New York and Maryland in response to what he said was Russian harassment of American diplomats in Moscow.

Titled «Talking Point Embassy of U.S. in Colombia as Political Post for Ambassadorship,» the memo says the ambassadorship is «no ordinary post, but one with a major U.S. national security interest.»

«We don't want a trade war,» Chinese ambassador Cui Tiankai said in a video posted to the embassy's Facebook page.

The Chinese Embassy in the United States issued a blunt statement, saying that «China does not want a trade war with anyone.