Sentences with phrase «foreign affairs ministers»

Responding to the latest pro-unionist march in Catalonia, Raul Romeva, the region's foreign affairs minister, told CNBC on Sunday that there had been a larger pro-independence response from the Catalan people and that needed to be addressed by Madrid.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland was in Washington last week meeting with U.S. trade czar Robert Lighthizer, who has said he is hoping for an agreement in principle within weeks.

Former Soviet bloc nation Lithuania received its first cargo of U.S. LNG in August - an event Lithuania's foreign affairs minister called «crucially important for the whole region.»

In a speech in August, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Canada's economy is 2.5 per cent larger every year than it would be without NAFTA: «It is as if Canada has been receiving a $ 20 - billion cheque each year since NAFTA was ratified.»

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.

The guest list included the several of the most successful people in the Canadian business community: GE Canada CEO Elyse Allan, Linamar CEO Linda Hasenfratz, T&T Supermarket's Tina Lee, NRStor's Annette Verschuren, GM board member Carol Stephenson, and foreign affairs minister Chrystia Freeland.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is in Washington for the second time in days and says good progress is being made, but she won't comment on the timing.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland dismissed the publication of the U.S. objectives as «part of an internal process» and reminded everyone that Canada buys more goods and services from the U.S. than China, Japan and the United Kingdom combined.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, Finance Minister Bill Morneau, Trudeau aide Gerald Butts, Transport Minister Marc Garneau, and Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr have reached out to American officials or the business community in recent days.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland in January 2017.

And newly appointed Secretary of State John Kerry, the man charged with accepting or rejecting TransCanada's permit application, sounded sour on Keystone during his first tête - à - tête with Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird.

Perhaps emboldened by Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird's claim that China is a «friend and ally,» the Chinese appear to be putting this to the test.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, who was travelling with the prime minster on a visit to Mexico City Thursday, issued a statement expressing gratitude for the rescue.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird even traveled to Libya after the Arab Spring.

Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy will lead a Commonwealth mission to Pakistan to press the new military regime for a firm timetable for restoring democracy.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland addressed the Buy American issue in Ottawa on the last day of talks two weeks ago, saying the recently - completed Canada - EU free trade deal, which opened up local procurement to both sides, was Canada's preferred option.

The four - member Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group, led by Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy, met with Pakistan's army ruler Pervaiz Musharraf, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, and other political leaders and government officials as they assessed the political situation in the country.

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy said «this is the first visit that he's had since the takeover.

Foreign Affairs Minister David «If this is Tuesday, I must be Tory» Emerson announced he wouldn't be running for reelection in Vancouver Kingsway.

The maternal grandfather of Canada's foreign affairs minister worked on a Nazi - operated newspaper.

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.

Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy said that Canada is preparing to send aid to East Timor.

Nault also took aim at Trump directly for his anti-trade, tear - up - NAFTA - rhetoric, which is an area where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland have navigated carefully.

Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy said that the coup can only add to the instability that already exists in the region, where India and Pakistan have developed their own nuclear weapons and have unresolved border disputes.

Its response Wednesday, in a statement from Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland's spokesman Adam Austen was: «As we stated at the conclusion of the first round of talks, we are committed to upgrading NAFTA and establishing 21st century standards supporting middle class jobs to the benefit of Canada, the United States, and Mexico.»

Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy has contacted the United States, Australia and New Zealand as a first step in organizing a special APEC meeting on East Timor.

Washington, DC — Today, United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, and Mexican Secretary of the Economy Ildefonso Guajardo successfully concluded the fourth round of the renegotiation and modernization of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Those are good attributes for a foreign affairs minister.»

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada doesn't measure the value of trade in terms of deficits and surpluses.

But just yesterday, Ms. Nash next recalled, the Foreign Affairs Minister had stood and suggested that the Parliamentary Budget Officer had «from time to time and on occasion... overstepped its mandate.»

Military politics The Edmonton Journal «s Graham Thomson recaps Foreign Affairs Minister David Emerson's whirlwind tour of Afghanistan, noting his comments on the security situation, corruption and other issues mirrored the trip itself: «low - key, cautious and short,» not to mention, in contrast with his predecessor, «gaffe - free.»

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is shooting back at Donald Trump's anti-Canadian trade rhetoric saying she will be «tough and strong» in fighting for Canada's economic interests with the U.S.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says she is optimistic a new softwood lumber deal can reached

Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto — May 24, 2017 — While Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland undertakes private NAFTA renegotiation meetings in Mexico City, civil society will also hold their own discussions in the same city from May 26 - 28th.

What goes around comes around — unfortunately for the foreign affairs minister.

The Americans are expected to clarify their demand for more stringent rules of origin in the auto industry during the Ottawa round — which explains why Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is meeting with a roundtable of auto parts manufacturers on Friday, as well as having lunch with former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and his team who negotiated the original Canada-U.S. free trade agreement.

Harper will also bring a sizable entourage of his cabinet for portions of the trip, including Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, Employment Minister Jason Kenney, Industry Minister James Moore and Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver.

Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop predicts her country's move will go global.

Canada is «totally committed» to supply management, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said last year, and Ottawa has given no indication that it is willing to change a system that, by design, protects the entire Canadian dairy supply chain from competition and dings consumers with some of the highest dairy prices in the world.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland was guarded in her reaction Thursday, but sought to dispel confusion over Mr. Trump's comments, saying his talk about timing has not started any countdown toward negotiation.

The «U.N. is dead» exclaimed the Belgian Foreign Affairs Minister on December 26, 1998, following the latest bombardment of Iraq by United States and British aircraft.

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, right, and Mexico's Secretary of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo Villarrea, deliver statements to the media during the sixth round of negotiations for a new North American Free Trade Agreement in Montreal in January 2018.

Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said on Sunday the government would lay out its economic and tax strategies in the May budget.

The Foreign Affairs Minister urged the electorate to have confidence in the President Mahama - led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government and give the party another term to accomplish the many projects being undertaken in the region.

The Foreign Affairs Minister told Parliament that this is because the former detainees were granted refugee status under the Mahama government in July 2016.

According to Mustapha Hamid, the former Foreign Affairs Minister finds the entire process used by the Mahama - led administration to accept the suspected terrorists flawed.

At a brief ceremony to mark the signing of the initiative, Foreign Affairs Minister, Hanna Tetteh, said the initiative will help Ghana and the other selected African countries build stronger institutions to counter emerging and existing security threats on the continent.

According to Ghana's Foreign Affairs Minister, Hannah Tetteh, Government has agreed to provide humanitarian assistance to persons from Syria following the crisis in that country.

Foreign Affairs Minister Hanna Tetteh has said the two former inmates of the Guantanamo Bay cell who are being sheltered in Ghana were merely «foot soldiers» of Al - Qaeda with no potential danger to Ghana.

In Washington, D.C., where the fallout from the news of FBI Director James Comey's firing continues, President Trump will meet this morning in the Oval Office with Russia's foreign affairs minister.