Sentences with phrase «foreign affairs council»

New British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond (right) speaks to Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski at a Foreign Affairs Council meeting at the EU Council headquarters in Brussels

1131 - FCO - Video: Foreign Secretary William Hague spoke to media on his way into Foreign Affairs Council today, about Syria and Nigeria.

The High representative is also automatically a vice president of the Commission, chairs the meetings of EU Foreign Ministers (the Foreign Affairs Council) and takes part in the meetings of the European Council so that she is the only person to seat in all potentially relevant meetings.

I could not find any clear rule or authoritative information about the reception of foreign diplomats but my guess is that such a politically sensitive decision would formally be taken at the highest level, either the Council of the EU (i.e. the Foreign Affairs Council) or the European Council (it's not the same thing).

BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.

Not exact matches

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland did put together a NAFTA advisory council that includes two former Conservative cabinet ministers, Rona Ambrose and James Moore, and Brian Topp — yes Brian Topp, the former chief of staff of Rachel Notley, the New Democratic premier of Alberta.

Among the many well - known Canadians scheduled as «participants» were Stephen Harper's Conservative cabinet ministers Stockwell Day (who at first denied attending) and the then - defence minister Gordon O'Connor, deputy ministers (Defence) Ward Elcock, Peter Harder (Foreign Affairs), Associate Deputy Minister William Elliott (Public Security), Liberal continentalist Anne McLellan, Canada's former deputy prime minister and a defender of the oil patch, the Alberta minister of energy, Greg Melchin, General Rick Hillier, Canada's chief of defence staff, former Conservative cabinet minister Perrin Beatty, now president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the infamous continentalist Thomas d'Aquino, head of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Rear Admiral Roger Girouard, Maj. - Gen.

Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy said that Canada is «sounding out» the United Nations Security Council to see if a resolution to the situation in Pakistan can be agreed upon.

The delegation met with Taiwan's President, H.E. Tsai Ing - wen, the Minister of the Mainland Affairs Council, Executive Yuan, Ms. Hsiao - Yueh Chang, President of the Legislative Yuan, Hon. Jia - Chyuan Su, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Wu Chih - Chung, Mr. Ming -...

«That this House expresses profound concern that, despite voting 279 in favour and none against the motion calling on the Government to refer genocidal atrocities of Daesh to the United Nations Security Council on 14 April 2016, still, no such referral has been made; recalls the words of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in an article in the Telegraph on 27 March 2016, Daesh are engaged in what can only be called genocide of the poor Yazidis, though for some baffling reason the Foreign Office still hesitates to use the term genocide; and calls on the Government to ensure that the unanimous will of Parliament is implemented with urgency.»

At the latest General Affairs Council Meeting (GAC), Foreign Affairs Ministers and Secretaries further discussed the European Electionsand ways of improving cooperation between the EP and the Council.

She received a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) International Affairs Fellowship and US Institute of Peace Afghanistan Fellowship, supporting a year of research on Afghanistan's (post)- conflict governance and counterinsurgency.

To resolve this impasse, on June 19th representatives of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) purportedly suggested to the Australian Foreign Affairs Minister, Senator Bob Carr, that Taylor might be released if only the ICC apologized «for breaches in protocol», and on Friday, June 22nd the ICC expressed its «regret» that Ms. Taylor's actions gave «rise to concerns on the part of the Libyan authorities».

The Commission, or the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy where the agreement envisaged relates exclusively or principally to the common foreign and security policy, shall submit recommendations to the Council, which shall adopt a decision authorising the opening of negotiations and, depending on the subject of the agreement envisaged, nominating the Union negotiator or the head of the Union's negotiatinForeign Affairs and Security Policy where the agreement envisaged relates exclusively or principally to the common foreign and security policy, shall submit recommendations to the Council, which shall adopt a decision authorising the opening of negotiations and, depending on the subject of the agreement envisaged, nominating the Union negotiator or the head of the Union's negotiatinforeign and security policy, shall submit recommendations to the Council, which shall adopt a decision authorising the opening of negotiations and, depending on the subject of the agreement envisaged, nominating the Union negotiator or the head of the Union's negotiating team.

(b) By way of derogation from point (a), where the Council does not act on a proposal from the Commission or from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the qualified majority shall be defined as at least 72 % of the members of the Council representing the participating Member States, comprising at least 65 % of the population of these States.

A governing council under the chairmanship of former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, a Vice-Chancellor had been appointed and some of them are from the far North.

Efforts to woo Britain's new foreign secretary will also include an offer to lift restrictions on the number of British Council offices in Russia imposed in the wake of the Litvinenko affair.

In July 1997, he was elected as Secretary of the Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Committee and the Conservative Middle East Council.

He was also formerly Director General of Political and Military Affairs of the EU's Council of Ministers, and former chief foreign policy adviser to British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Before the 2010 general election, most of Gove's questions in Commons debates concerned children, schools and families, education, local government, council tax, foreign affairs, and the environment.

Mr Salmond, the SNP's foreign affairs spokesman, said it was vital Britain did not act without a UN security council resolution over the air strikes.

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Besides his congressional fellowship, he has been an adviser to Congress and President Bill Clinton on nuclear arms control and treaty verification and a reviewer for the Council on Foreign Affairs to improve how scientific information is used to formulate international policy.

The United Nations (UN) Security Council visited the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden, together with the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Margot Wallström.

She served on the Advisory Committee for Term Members of the Council on Foreign Relationsand was recently selected to the Educational Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees of The Rockefeller University.

Mr. Poneman is a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, a Distinguished Fellow at the Paulson Institute, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Amos is also the author of Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East (Public Affairs, 2010) and Lines in the Sand: Desert Storm and the Remaking of the Arab World (Simon and Schuster, 1992).

All are affiliated with and financially supported by Hanban, the executive arm of the Chinese Language Council International, which in turn consists of representatives of a dozen government ministries, including foreign affairs, commerce and the «State Council Information Office» which is responsible for, among other things, internet censorship.

This dialogue will culminate in the production of a «manifesto ``, to be presented to the May meeting of the EU Council of Foreign Affairs Ministers.

The Australia Awards Global Tracer Facility is managed by the Australian Council for Educational Research on behalf of the Australian Government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

The app is free for download until March 31, 2013 and is a project of the Royal Irish Academy, the National Museum of Ireland and The Irish Times supported by the Presidency of the European Council of the European Union and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland.

The Forum also earns great support from its supporting units including Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Macao SAR, Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in the Macao SAR, China National Tourism Administration (CNTA), World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) and Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO).

GTEF's supporting units include China National Tourism Administration, All - China Federation of Industry and Commerce, the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Macao SAR, Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in the Macao SAR, Macao Government Tourism Office, World Travel and Tourism Council, Pacific Asia Travel Association, World Tourism Cities Federation and European Travel Commission.

The Forum continues to earn support from its supporting units including Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Macao SAR, Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in the Macao SAR, China National Tourism Administration, World Travel and Tourism Council, Pacific Asia Travel Association and Macau Government Tourist Office.

The Forum's supporting units include China National Tourism Administration, All - China Federation of Industry and Commerce, the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Macao SAR, Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in the Macao SAR, Macao Government Tourism Office, World Travel and Tourism Council, Pacific Asia Travel Association, World Tourism Cities Federation and European Travel Commission.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and served as president of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs.

The exhibition was organized by the General Directorate for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in collaboration with the State Corporation for Spanish Cultural Action Abroad (SEACEX) and curated by The Arts Club of Chicago.The University Museum of Contemporary Art is the exhibition's last venue and is supported in part by funds from the UMass Arts Council.

She has also received funding from the Stavanger City Municipality, Rogaland County Municipality, Arts Council Norway, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Office of Contemporary Art Norway, Matthew Wrightson Charity Trust Award, Fatima & Faiza H. Alkazzi Award, and Lise og Arnfinn Hejes Fond.

She has received funding from the Rogaland County Council, the City of Stavanger, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Arts Council Norway.

SPONSORS: INJUVE, Asian Cultural Council, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Turkey, Moon and Stars Project, AFAA — Ville de Paris, Yageo Tech - Art Award of the ACC (Asian Cultural Council), Australian Council for the Arts, Arts Victoria, Luso - American Development Foundation, Instituto das Artes (Lisbon).

Her work is in public and private collections including the National Museum of Ireland, the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs in Belfast and Tokyo and Louth County Council.

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After its huge success last summer, «Waiting For Godot» returns to Smock Alley Theatre for one week only before embarking on tour to Rio De Janeiro and Brasilia, supported by the Arts Council, Culture Ireland and the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, to celebrate the 40th year of diplomatic relations between Ireland and Brazil.

COLLECTIONS Ottawa Public Art Program, Ottawa, ON X-2 Condominiums, Toronto, ON BMO Corporate Art Collection, Toronto, ON Buffalo Medical Campus Inc., John E. Friedlander Memorial, Buffalo, NY TELUS House Tower, Calgary, AB Foreign Affairs & International Trade Visual Arts Collection, Canadian Embassy, Prague, Czech Rep Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA KPMG Canada, Toronto, ON Seneca College Art Collection, Toronto, ON X The Condominium, Toronto, ON Musée d'art de Joliette, Joliette, QC Condominium Le Belmont, Montréal, QC Charles Balbach, Buffalo, New York The WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, ON Kiwi Sculpture Garden, Perth, ON City of Ottawa Public Art Program, Ottawa, ON HD VISION Studios, Studio City, CA Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON ARTS Court, Ottawa, ON HD VISION, Dallas, TX Federal Communications Commission, New York Crown Life, Toronto, ON Queen's University, Kingston, ON Northernlight & Picture Corp., Toronto, ON

He is an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Coast Guard.

The strategic significance of an opening Arctic recently made the pages of Foreign Affairs magazine, in an article by one of my longtime sources on this issue, Scott Borgerson, a former Coast Guard officer who is now a scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Richard Haass, president of the Washington - based Council on Foreign Relations, wrote in a recent issue of Foreign Affairs about the «relative decline of the United States» position in the world» («The Age of Nonpolarity; What Will Follow U.S. Dominance,» May / June 2008).

It was also announced separately by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that Premier Wen Jiabao (also the chair of the State Council, and pictured right, showing what President Hu meant by a «notable margin»... at least in my imagination) will attend the Copenhagen climate conference that begins in less than two weeks.

In recent days, both the Council on Foreign Affairs and the New York Times have published claims that were literally out - of - date the instant they were put on the internet.

European Union: Commission Directorate General (DG) Environment LIFE Programme; DG Development and Cooperation - Europe Aid; Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency; the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs; European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe; European Climate Foundation; German Federal Ministry for the Environment (Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety); Isvara Foundation; James M.Goldsmith Foundation; Stichting Adessium; Mava Foundation; The Grassroots Foundation; GAIA; The Jennifer Altman Foundation; Zero Waste Europe; and EASME (European Commission — Executive Agency for Small and Medium - sized Enterprises.)