Sentences with phrase «foreign office under»

Boris has also been taken to task on Twitter by Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Tory leader and Tobias Ellwood, who was a minister in the Foreign Office under Johnson until June.

This was at a time when the Foreign Office under William Hague was making a big fanfare about challenging rape as a weapon of war, but the Home Office was routinely deporting women seeking asylum who had endured this awful crime.

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.

Not exact matches

In October, Sens. Ron Wyden and Rand Paul introduced the bipartisan USA Rights Act, which aims to reform Section 702 and «end warrantless backdoor searches of Americans» calls, emails, texts and other communications that are routinely swept up under a program designed to spy on foreign targets,» according to a press release from Wyden's office.

Once the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has added an entity to the so - called «Kingpin List,» it becomes illegal under US law for anyone to conduct business with that entity.

The Foreign Office has come under sustained attack over the handling of the north African revolution.

Under Gordon Brown he rose to a ministerial position at the Foreign Office, but back in Opposition he fell well short of the votes required amongst his colleagues to make the shadow cabinet.

Foreign secretary William Hague, who has been under pressure over his response to the Libyan uprising, insisted that the Foreign Office had not been overstretched by trying to deal with the global disaster while simultaneously managing events in the Middle East and north Africa.

Even under George W Bush, development was already increasingly prioritised, with foreign assistance doubling during his time in office.

23 March 2010 — OPPOSITION: SHADOW MINISTERIAL VISITS Question: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any information has been released following a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office relating to the visit of the Shadow Foreign Secretary, William Hague, to Cuba in March 2009; if so, to whom; and when.

Last year, over 300 foreign prisoners — including killers — successfully avoided deportation by the Home Office after claiming they have a human right to a «family life» in Britain, under Article 8 of the HRA.

Robert Renwick, a former Foreign Office mandarin, worked closely with Margaret Thatcher and his A Journey with Margaret Thatcher: Foreign Policy under the Iron Lady (Biteback # 20) is a personal assessment of her successes and failures.

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.

Witness (es): Mark Simmonds MP, Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Richard Benyon, Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Dr Peter Hayes, Director Overseas Territories, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Jeremy Eppel, Deputy Director, International Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Evidence, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Ian McKendry, Deputy Director for the Overseas Territories and the Caribbean, Department for International Development

Later today permanent under - secretary Simon Fraser will summon North Korea's ambassador to Britain to the Foreign Office.

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 charges in part read: «That you Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki whilst being National Security Adviser and Shaibu Salisu, whilst being the Director of Finance and Administration in the Office of the National Security Adviser and Hon. Waripamowei Dudafa (now at large) whilst bring Senior Special Assistant, Domestic Affairs to the President on or about 27th November within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court entrusted with dominion over certain properties to wit: the sum of N10billion being part of the funds in the account of the National Security Adviser with the CBN, the equivalent of which sum you received from the CBN in foreign currencies to wit: $ 47million and $ 5.6 million Euros committed criminal breach of trust in respect of the said property when you claimed to have distributed same to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Primary Election delegates and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 315 of the Penal Code Act, Cap 532, Vol.4, LFN 2004.

2.30 pm Oral Questions Ensuring effective implementation of the stalking offences under the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 - Lord Kennedy of Southwark Reducing the geographic disparity in Gross Value Added per head within the UK - Lord Wigley British Academy's report «Languages: the State of the Nation» concluding that the UK will be unable to meet its aspirations for growth and global influence unless action is taken to remedy the deficit in foreign language skills - Baroness Coussins Office of Fair Trading's report on payday loans - Lord Mitchell Legislation Growth and Infrastructure Bill - Report stage (Day 2)- Baroness Hanham Orders and Regulations Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (Amendment) Order 2013 and Motion to Regret - Viscount Younger of Leckie / Lord Young of Norwood Green

Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister of state (Europe)- Caroline Flint Minister of state (Middle East and Africa)- Lord Malloch - Brown Minister of state - Bill Rammell Parliamentary under secretary of state - Gillian Merron

A Foreign Office spokesman said: «Sir Geoffrey stressed that the British government was horrified by the continuing unacceptable violence in Homs, which has been under attack for 19 days.

Lord Malloch - Brown, a former diplomat and Labour Foreign Office minister under Gordon Brown, who is heavily involved in a new organisation, Best for Britain, which seeks to mobilise civil society against leaving the EU, argued that Labour risked missing its chance of power if it continued hedging its bets on Brexit.

On my first day at the Foreign Office I also went to see the Permanent Under - Secretary, the most senior civil servant.

It is just that Mr Hague thinks that under Mr Miliband the Foreign Office was left financially stricken and marginalised in Whitehall, failed to build relations with emerging economies, and left Britain vulnerable to accusations it was complicit in torture.

Tobias Ellwood MP as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Foreign Office failure to host meal for former SNP leader and UK embassy staff shows «deep politicisation» of department under Philip Hammond, says Salmond

In August 2014, Hammond said he was surprised at the sudden resignation of Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi, who wrote of «great unease» under his leadership of the Foreign office.

And, while non-governmental U.S. scientists are permitted to travel to Cuba to conduct research under the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control's general license, they must apply for a specific license to attend or organize most conferences there.

About the GCRI: Under leadership of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), GCRI receives its funding from the German Auswärtiges Amt (German Federal Foreign Office).

The delay wasn't enough to earn the film notice at the box office, where it grossed a dismal $ 4.4 million, barely one - fourth of the production budget, in under 300 - theater domestic release and adding almost nothing to it in a few foreign markets this spring.

He traveled extensively but never settled down until 1939, when he became an employee of the British Foreign Office sent to Russia under cover as a reporter for The Times.

Under the Obama administration, rules were relaxed allowing individuals to visit the island in compliance with 12 categories of travel without applying to Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) for a specific license.

Under Canada's present system, a Canadian company looking for trademark protection outside of Canada applies to the foreign country's trademark office directly, often with the help of their Canadian lawyer and always with the assistance of a local lawyer in the far - off jurisdiction.

But Daniels noted that the foreign emoluments clause says «no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince or foreign state.»

If adopted, the proposed amendments would create an exemption for resales of shares of non-reporting issuers if, among other things, the trade is made to a person or on a market outside Canada and if at the time of the original distribution the issuer was a «foreign issuer» (essentially an entity organized under foreign laws that does not have its head office or a majority of its assets in Canada or for which Canadian residents are a majority of the board or the executive suite).

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

(d) A lawyer admitted in another United States jurisdiction or in a foreign jurisdiction, and not disbarred or suspended from practice in any jurisdiction or the equivalent thereof, or a person otherwise lawfully practicing as an in - house counsel under the laws of a foreign jurisdiction, may provide legal services through an office or other systematic and continuous presence in this jurisdiction that:

As of March 1, 2012, the public policy exemption would apply to an foreign national to whom a TRP is being issued at a port of entry (POE) or a visa office abroad, who is inadmissible solely on the grounds of «criminality» under section 36 (2) of IRPA, and who:

A Home Office ban on foreign spouses under the age of 21 settling in the UK has been ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court.

Under Sanctions imposed by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control, persons and entities falling into these categories are prohibited from engaging, or facilitating the engagement by others, in any commercial relationship with Iran.

Payment of loss under this policy shall only be made in full compliance with all United States of America economic or trade sanction laws or regulations, including, but not limited to sanctions, laws and regulations administered and enforced by the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control («OFAC»).

The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Alistair Burt, however emphasized that the government does not support the call for a moratorium on these future weapons that would select and attack targets without further human intervention, described as «lethal autonomous robotics» in the parliamentary adjournment debate held late in the evening of 17 June 2013.

On 6 January 2017, a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) official responded to a December 2016 letter sent by Article 36 and six other UK members of Campaign to Stop Killer Robots to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson that called on the government to establish national policy specifying «the measures necessary to ensure that weapons remain under human control in the future.»