Sentences with phrase «foreign office did»

The point is that the Foreign Office did know about this, Boris knew about [the trip].»

While the Foreign Office did not disclose how Mr Squire died, they released a statement confirming he had been «killed».

A spokeswoman for the British Foreign Office did not say how many British diplomats would be affected, but said Russia's response was regrettable and Moscow was in flagrant breach of international law over the killing of the former spy.

Not exact matches

To help ease the appearance of conflicts of interest, the company said it would not enter into any new international deals, promised to hire a compliance officer and ethics adviser to vet domestic deals, donate foreign profit from its hotels and refrain from doing anything that could be perceived as exploiting the office of the presidency.

However, once you open a small development office with a few employees in California, your business will probably be considered to be doing business in California and you will have to file a Statement and Designation by Foreign Corporation form with California.

Because his company had been operating for more than a year in Israel and doing business in the U.S., Pinhas was able to come here in 2013 on a nonimmigrant L - 1 visa, which allows executives of established foreign companies to set up or work for a U.S. office.

Asked whether it would be seeking to transport the pair to Britain, the Foreign Office said it did not comment on individual cases or ongoing investigations.

It is, of course, illegal for an incoming Administration to discuss policies with foreign officials before taking office, as it implies authority they do not yet have.

As a foreign office minister Waldegrave, although innocent of any wrong doing apart from minor negligence, was the political fall guy for Sir Richard Scott and the opposition and media.

Last October, in a policy statement which David Cameron now studiously ignores, Foreign Office minister Lady Anelay said the UK did not support search - and - rescue efforts in the Mediterranean because it encouraged more to try to get here.

If the UK Prime Minister tells (say) an employee of MI6 or the Foreign Office to do something, that person is required to either do it or resign.

It would be worse for the Foreign Office to avoid all risks, in the hope that it would never be exposed to criticism when the risks don't come off.

Patel - and Downing Street - insisted she had done nothing wrong, insisting she paid for the trip herself and the Foreign Office was fully aware.

Bad week for the Foreign Office: Getting Britons out of Libya did not go well.

At a meeting before Abbas's speech, foreign office minister Alistair Burt confirmed to a group of representatives of Arab organizations that Britain had not taken a position on this matter and would not do so until it had seen the actual text.

The suggestion that Downing Street and the Foreign Office are at odds over what to do about the crisis in Lebanon is «complete rubbish», Tony Blair has said.

A third Foreign Office source said: «We didn't know and would have expected to know, given the meetings she had.»

The departmental structure around them is also shifting, with Remainer Damian Green taking over effectively as deputy prime minister in the Cabinet Office, which was linking the work being done in the Brexit department with Liam Fox's Department for International Trade and the Foreign Office under Boris Johnson.

Because the sponsor, the Chinese Culture University, did not employ or retain lobbyists or foreign agents, and because no lobbyist or foreign agent was traveling with me or paying for the trip, we did not understand that our contacts with an agent for the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office could affect the trip's permissibility.

Civilly serving [Before politics], I did a stint in the Foreign Office and three years in the Home Office; I felt it was really important to learn how policy is made in Whitehall, how you can make change happen within government and I'm really glad I did that, because I learnt how the civil service worked.

Shadow Foreign Office minister Emma Reynolds said: «I do sympathise with [Mr Cash] today.

He argued that the three sector agencies namely; the Foreign Ministry, Interior Ministry and National Security had supervisory role over the former detainees «so if you [government] want to have a full picture, you would have gone to these three agencies to find out, and if you didn't find anything on record, you would have [also] invited those who were occupying these offices for more details.»

How did the Home Office end up being completely reliant on a foreign private contractor in the first place?

Ratcliffe has already been underserved by the Foreign Office, whose representatives have repeatedly told him they don't want to give the case a higher profile as he lobbies to raise awareness of it.

The court of apppeal decided to publish the paragraph, which criticises MI5's role in the affair, despite Foreign Office pressure not to do so.

Key diplomatic work will increasingly be done by cheap, inexperienced local staff and the diplomatic service will be overstretched under plans outlined by the Foreign Office today, according to the Public and Commercial Services Union.

The letter Patino received was being played down by the Foreign Office this morning, but it does mention the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987, which allows the government to revoke diplomatic status of an embassy on UK soil.

The specific mention of the treatment of alleged victims suggests the committee is largely sympathetic to the claims of some MPs, including former Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant, who claim their phones were hacked but that the police have done nothing to help them establish the facts.

The Foreign Office is unlikely to accept the proposal for a trial in Russia on the grounds that the British government does not respect the independence of the Russian judicial system, however.

The cheering crowds celebrating Britain in Libya give a small indication of what can be achieved with a little vision and commitment, of what we can do if the Foreign Office sees the moment of change for what it is.

Former colleagues of the high - flying peer may just be hoping he does a better job of bringing people together when Gordon Brown made him a Foreign Office minister in 2007.

The Foreign Office spokesman said of today's announcement: «What that doesn't mean is that all troops will be out by next spring.

And a Foreign Office spokesman stressed her comment did not represent any change in policy, telling politics.co.uk it was just an «indication of the way we think the process of handover is moving».

Foreign Office - commissioned National Institute of Economic and Social Research report found those who did come to the UK were unlikely to exploit benefits systems and public services.

Two senior sources - in Downing Street and the Foreign Office - have told me that a deal has now been done where in future the cost of the BBC World Service - currently # 272m a year - will have to come from the licence fee rather than the Foreign Office budget.

Mr Baker is tabling a parliamentary question to the Foreign Office to establish which of the countries with large outstanding charges intend to settle the bill and which have made it clear they do not intend to pay the charge.

But despite strongly worded statement statements from the prime minister and the foreign secretary the Foreign Office is struggling to give details of what it will now do to secure a ceasefire outside of talking with key fforeign secretary the Foreign Office is struggling to give details of what it will now do to secure a ceasefire outside of talking with key fForeign Office is struggling to give details of what it will now do to secure a ceasefire outside of talking with key figures.

A spokesman at the Foreign Office told inthenews.co.uk it was doing «everything we can» to secure the release of the hostages and remained in «close contact» with their families while negotiations with kidnappers continued.

If the Foreign Office wants them to do A, by definition they will do B.

But we did find out that Hilary Benn, the shadow foreign secretary, seemed to be in a good mood when he left Corbyn's office making no comment.

Disclosing what CACOL had done in the past on Obasanjo and his suspected corruption cases, Adeniran said, «our coalition submitted a petition against former President, General Olusegun Obasanjo (Rtd) to the EFCC on November 14th, 2007 at the Lagos Zonal Office on offences bordering on alleged conspiracy, fraudulent conversion of funds and abuse of office, foreign exchange malpractice and money laundering.&Office on offences bordering on alleged conspiracy, fraudulent conversion of funds and abuse of office, foreign exchange malpractice and money laundering.&office, foreign exchange malpractice and money laundering.»

The Washington Post did not receive comment about those claims from the offices of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) or Sen. Ben Cardin (D., Md.), who has held Menendez's position on the Foreign Relations Committee since Menendez stepped aside.

The argument of the jurisdiction does not hold water for me taking the fact that the president sworn into office the foreign Affairs Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchway at the Ghanaian Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia when he assumed officer as president January last year because at the time she was already in Ethiopia on a national assignment.

«Walling off labs, making foreign graduate students wear badges — it's just not what we do at a university,» says Paul Powell, assistant director of the Office of Sponsored Programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

Two features from the AAAS / Science Business Office investigate the challenges faced by foreign scientists in the United States and offer tips from scientists who have done a postdoc or sabbatical abroad.

I WAS horrified by the reports of an 80 000 - litre oil leak at Argentina's Marambio Base, in Antarctica, and I asked foreign office minister David Davis what could be done.

Sony also had the lowest per - film average gross of the six major distributors in 2011, and its foreign box office growth (which includes a nice total for The Adventures of Tintin, for which Sony held the foreign distribution rights) didn't prevent the studio from finishing fifth in global market share for the second straight year.

His last film, 2012, didn't make back its $ 200 million budget domestically, although the insane $ 600 million foreign box office more than covered the difference.

But the company can take solace in the great showing its foreign films did this year at the box office.

While some state schools, like Florida State University, could be willing to tweak its foreign language requirements — «in certain cases,» said Hege Ferguson, a representative from the admissions office — students who are attending private or out - of - state schools could be at a disadvantage if coding is promoted over foreign language, because those institutions do not have any obligation to alter admissions criteria.