Sentences with phrase «foreign office said»

Mr Hague will travel to Paris to meet US Secretary of State John Kerry and French foreign minister Laurent Fabius, the Foreign Office said.»

«Our assessment remains that, as on March 17th, travel on the main routes on the island during daylight hours is orderly if slow in some places because of police checkpoints,» the Foreign Office said.

The Foreign Office said Russia's refusal was «unacceptable» and Downing Street said it was extremely disappointed at the decision, adding it is deeply regrettable Russia had not cooperated.

The Foreign Office said it was not prepared to give a running commentary on targeting, but said that a person can be a target if their behaviour is threatening civilians.

In a memorandum sent this month to the foreign affairs select committee, before the allegations of poisoning in Salisbury emerged, the Foreign Office said Russia was increasingly defining itself in opposition to the west.

Britain's Foreign Office said that Foreign Secretary William Hague has chaired a meeting of Britain's crisis committee and sent a rapid deployment team from London to Nairobi to provide extra consular support.

Meanwhile the UK Foreign Office said it was standing by to provide assistance but was not aware of any British citizens involved as yet.

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.

The UK Foreign Office says it was unaware of this alleged activity before SCL was awarded British government contracts in 2008.

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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.

Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control added six individuals and 10 companies and other entities to its sanctions list, saying they have helped people previously penalized for North Korea's weapons development, facilitated North Korea's energy sector and enabled entities to bypass sanctions to get access to the U.S. and international financial system.

Galbraith at Thalmic Labs says if the process is too onerous, some companies may opt to hire a foreign worker but keep that person overseas and establish an office abroad.

Beyond the two FBI field offices, FBI counterintelligence agents based in Washington are pursuing leads from informants and foreign communications intercepts, two of the people said.

Trump supporters say Clinton deserves to be prosecuted for her handling of U.S. foreign policy as President Barack Obama's first - term secretary of state and for her use of a private email server while in that office.

«This is a testament of Singapore's inclusive diplomatic relations and effective foreign policy,» Philippe May, managing director of Arton Capital's Singapore office, said in a statement.

The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control approved the deal, Sulzer said, freeing it from...

Presidents like Bill Clinton have tried to personally influence elections in places like Russia and Israel while in office, but Levin said he has not come across an instance where a former president has offered an endorsement in a foreign leadership race like Obama.

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.

«With that being said, I have personally directed the fix to the unmasking process since taking office and today's vote is about foreign surveillance of foreign bad guys on foreign land,» he tweeted.

«The U.K. would strongly support Zimbabwe's re-entry» into the Commonwealth, a press release from the U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office said.

The newly unsealed charge, filed October 3 by the special counsel Robert Mueller's office, said that on January 27 Papadopoulos lied to FBI agents about «the timing, extent, and nature of his relationships and interactions with certain foreign nationals whom he understood to have close connections with senior Russian government officials.»

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A recent U.S. Government Accountability Office study said the FDA inspects foreign drug manufacturing facilities about once every 11 years.

China's foreign minister will visit North Korea this week, his office said Monday, becoming the highest - ranking Chinese official to travel there in years as Beijing moves to further improve ties with Pyongyang days after a landmark inter-Korean summit.

Vanguard is on track to more than double the size of its Shanghai office this year and may seek approval to sell products to wealthy investors as a first step before seeking a foreign - owned mutual fund license when regulators allow it in 2021, said Charles Lin, the firm's China head.

Early yesterday afternoon a meeting of the G7 - basically the G8 but without Russia - held a conference call about the situation, although Foreign Office sources were unable to give us a read out of what was said.

Ministers have been careful not to respond to any allegations about Russia's involvement - something President Putin has denied - other than to say that the Foreign Office has asked the Kremlin for any information that may be useful to the investigation.

Foreign Office minister Jim Murphy said: «It would be utterly unacceptable for Russia to try and destabilise a democratically elected government on its border with a view to any sort of regime change.

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.

On May 19, the New York Times published a story which said that according to the official White House minutes of President Trump's May 10 Oval Office meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavarov, President Trump said this:

A Foreign Office statement issued last month said: «Palmerston is HM Diplomatic Service's newest arrival and in the role of FCO Chief Mouser will assist our pest controllers in keeping down the number of mice in our King Charles Street building.»

The governor who said Nigerians should remove party, ethnic and religious sentiments and ask themselves what they have benefitted in the last one year, reminded Nigerians that, «Foreign Reserve was $ 28.6 billion, Excess Crude Account (ECA) was $ 2.07 billion, dollars was less than N200, petrol was N87 per litre and most importantly, one bag of rice was N8, 500 and power generation was over 5,000 MW when Buhari assumed office.

He said he would ask Hague to clarify the role of the Foreign Office in overseeing the legal frameworks which control GCHQ.

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.

«The review is primarily a British exercise about British national interests,» a Foreign Office official said.

Lord Malloch Brown, the Foreign Office minister who is stepping down this week, said the latest offensive in the war zone had not been sufficiently explained to the British people.

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

Former Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said: «We can not unite the party if the leader's office is determined to divide us.»

In a new report, the think tanks cites the recent row over foreign prisoners as proof of its argument, saying that although home secretary Charles Clarke lost his job over the inefficiencies in the Home Office, this was unlikely to have any major impact.

Counsel for the Foreign Office told the court that the threat to end the bilateral intelligence relationship was still present under President Obama, but Gordon Brown said he was not aware of any such arrangement.

We should show each other respect,» Mr Cameron said in a joint press conference after the summit in the Foreign Office this lunchtime.

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

A new «politics driven» diplomatic approach is required to tackle global warming, the Foreign Office's special representative for climate change said yesterday.

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Former Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt told the BBC the feud between the Foreign Secretary and Mrs May was «not sustainable» and said it was vital they spoke with «one voice» on diplomatic issues.

Ed Miliband says Baroness Warsi has «acted with principle and integrity» in resigning from the Foreign Office over the Gaza conflict.

The case would go to the more junior Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt, who would say he would raise it with Johnson, whose office would then hand it back toOffice minister Alistair Burt, who would say he would raise it with Johnson, whose office would then hand it back tooffice would then hand it back to Burt.

Ms Davidson, meanwhile, put out a statement yesterday saying there should be no state visit as long as British nationals were caught up in the refugee ban — a condition that may have been met by the clarification obtained by the Foreign Office last night.

«It is with deep regret that we have today informed the families of the hostages that, based on very strong indications, the two bodies recovered are highly likely to be those of Jason Creswell, originally from Glasgow, and Jason Swindlehurst, originally from Skelmersdale,» a Foreign Office statement said.