Sentences with phrase «national ambassadors from»

1) National ambassadors from all 28 member states will meet to discuss the proposed changes on Wednesday 6 December, ahead of an expected agreement by energy ministers at the energy council on 18 December.

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Senate confirmation is not required for the White House national security post, and Bolton, a former ambassador to the United Nations, will inherit a staff of several hundred specialists from the Pentagon, State Department and U.S. intelligence agencies.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

The Costa Rican government report recommends that Oliver North, General Richard Secord, former National Security Advisor John Poindexter, former U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, and former CIA station chief in Costa Rica, Joseph Fernandez, be banned from Costa Rican territory for life because of their involvement in illegal gun and drug operations.13

Mr. Owusu - Agyemang takes over from the immediate - past Board Chairman of COCOBOD, Daniel Ohene Agyekum, who served as Ashanti Regional Minister and Ghana's Ambassador to the United States of America under the National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration.

Apart from the outgoing US Ambassador that is expected at the open public hearing, the Committee also extended invitation to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyema, Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, the three accused lawmakers, the National Human Rights Commission, as well as the other seven members that attended the leadership programme.

The PDP had dragged the INEC and former Resident Electoral Commissioner, Ambassador Rufus Akeju before the court seeking a reversal of all actions taken by Akeju as REC after an earlier order of March 28th 2011, given by the same court which restrained him from conducting the 2011 elections to National Assembly as well as State House of Assembly.

Imo State Coordinator of the group, Mr. Akachukwu Oduokike, in his remarks said; «Nigeria should follow the American way,» insisting that the only person that can take the country through the path of economic prosperity is Atiku Abubakar.Also, one of the National Executive Committee members of the group from Yobe, Ambassador Usman Adams, said:

The Ghanaian attitude to time and late attendance to programmes of national importance received a backlash from the Korean Ambassador and a team of Korean engineers at a workshop in Accra yesterday.

In addition, just recently too while receiving a report on National Intelligence Agency (NIA) over Osborne Tower Scandal from Ambassador Babagana Kingibe, President Buhari in a statement by his Spokesperson Femi Adesina said the scandal «must be understood that this (investigation) can not be done in a manner that jeopardises national security or exposes the operations of any intelligence Agency, which must, by nature be conducted in secrecyNational Intelligence Agency (NIA) over Osborne Tower Scandal from Ambassador Babagana Kingibe, President Buhari in a statement by his Spokesperson Femi Adesina said the scandal «must be understood that this (investigation) can not be done in a manner that jeopardises national security or exposes the operations of any intelligence Agency, which must, by nature be conducted in secrecynational security or exposes the operations of any intelligence Agency, which must, by nature be conducted in secrecy.»

The statement read, «President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Ambassador Apollonius Demenongu Agev from Benue State (North Central) and Mr. Kio Solomon Benibo Amieyeofori from Rivers State (South - South) as Deputy Directors - General at the National Intelligence Agency.

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer and Ambassador Carl Spielvogel shared a table on the opposite side of the dining room from City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Democratic National Committee member Robert Zimmerman.

She is also the United National Development Program Goodwill Ambassador, the first woman from Saudi Arabia to hold that post.

A free anthology from Macmillan Children's Books and National Poetry Day, featuring the National Poetry Day Children's Ambassadors.

The team from Bilton Junior School took part in the final on Wednesday 7th December at Cambridge University where they were revealed as winners and presented their trophies by Stefan Gates, popular CBBC presenter and this year's official Ambassador for the National Young Mathematicians» Awards.

The School Ambassador Fellowship empowers leaders from our nation's public schools to contribute their knowledge and experience to the national dialogue about public education, and provides them an opportunity to... Read More

Paterson, a Newbery Medalist and National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, writes from her own abiding faith as she adds her careful embroidery to Saint Francis» canticle.

A hilarious saga of growing up in a household with five brothers during the 1950s and 1960s by the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, illustrated with candid pictures from the period.

The Dream of America by Jacqueline Woodson Nancy Paulsen • August 28 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Woodson takes a cue from The Breakfast Club in her upcoming novel centered on a group of six vastly different middle school classmates who are thrown together — seemingly at random — by their teacher.

Somtow will receive the award «for his services (and also in the spirit of international diversity)-- as cultural ambassador between East and West, overcoming national borders and cultural - historical barriers from and to Europe, and establishing meaningful collaborative connections in Thailand and Europe.»

Buddy suffered from kidney failure, and his owner, Morris Frank, then the national ambassador for the Seeing Eye, sought Dr. Morris's advice.

Art and the Feminist Revolution, 1965 - 1980, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA Modern Times: Alumni Collect, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME Image and Identity in African American Art, Highlights from the Collection, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL Beyond the Mountaintop, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT Blacks: In and Out of the Box, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA's Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA West Coast Masters of Assemblage & Collage, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT ART in Embassies Exhibition, United States Ambassador Maurice Parker Residence, Mbabane, Swaziland

When Huntsman resigned from the governorship to become ambassador to China, Marc Heileson of the Sierra Club's Utah office lamented that the state was losing «a national leader in the world's most important environmental issue.»

Wednesday the 10th of January saw young people from across Ireland flock to Facebook HQ Dublin to take part in the WebWise / Irish Second - Level Students» Union Safer Internet Day Ambassador Training session, a day where representatives from schools and groups from all corners of the country discussed internet safety and the big issues that affect them and their communities on a national and local level when it comes to the internet.