Sentences with phrase «us special envoy»

Trump still doesn't have an ambassador in Seoul, his special envoy for North Korea just announced his retirement and the State Department has seen an exodus of career officials since he took office.

(Lewis, in addition to being a former diplomat and a UN special envoy, is also a former parliamentarian, so he seemed a good person to ask.)

«The imponderable is what happens with President Trump,» said Chambers, the United Nations special envoy for malaria.

The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria said on Wednesday he had invited the Syrian government and opposition to a special meeting next week in Vienna.

U.N. special envoy for Palestinian rights Richard Falk said Tuesday the lack of electricity for 1.7 million residents in Gaza Strip is sparking a catastrophe.

In March, Kim met with Moon's special envoys in Pyongyang and held a surprise summit with Xi in Beijing later in the month during his first foreign trip since becoming North Korea's leader following the death of his father Kim Jong Il in 2011.

Among those who joined us in London: Jane Griffiths, Company Group Chairman, Janssen EMEA; Neelie Kroes, Special Envoy, Startup Delta, The Netherlands; Former European Commissioner for Digital Agenda; Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, Minister of Tolerance, United Arab Emirates; Emma Marcegaglia, President, BusinessEurope; Chairman, Eni SpA; Vice Chairman and CEO, Marcegaglia Group; Nicola Mendelsohn, Vice President EMEA, Facebook; Nicky Morgan, MP, Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities, Department for Education, U.K.; Lubna Olayan, Chief Executive Officer, Olayan Financing Company; Mary Portas, Founder, Portas; Author, Shop Girl; and Helle Thorning - Schmidt, Former Prime Minister, Denmark and Chief Executive Officer, Save the Children International.

In 2008 - 2009, he served as a State Department counterterrorism advisor to the special envoy for Middle East regional security (SEMERS), General James L. Jones.

The team includes Mark McLarty, president of Kissinger McLarty Associates and former chief of staff and special envoy to the Americas for President Bill Clinton.

It says in the early stages of the Iran / Iraq conflict, Donald Rumsfeld, acting as Ronald Reagan's special envoy, gave Saddam NSA satellite images of Iran's battlefield deployment and licenses that allowed Iraq unfettered access to America's arsenal of germ and chemical warfare.

Today, special envoy for North Korean human rights issues Robert King and a group of U.S. diplomats will leave for Pyongyang in an effort to secure the release of an...

³ A war would be a defeat for humanity and would be neither morally nor legally justified, ² the Pope told Bush in a papal message delivered last week by a special envoy.

Today, special envoy for North Korean human rights issues Robert King and a group of U.S. diplomats will leave for Pyongyang in an effort to secure the release of an imprisoned American missionary.

Tillerson also wants IRF to absorb the offices for religious minorities in the Middle East and Asia, the representative to Muslim communities, and the special envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

The special envoy sent to Chile by the Pope to investigate allegations of a sex abuse cover - up is in... More

Jan Figel, the EU's special envoy for freedom of religion outside the EU, has told Pakistan that the renewal of their export privileges will be dependent on the freedom of Asia Bibi.

Pope Benedict XVI will appoint a special envoy to run a Mexican Catholic order whose founder abused minor - age seminarians and fathered three children with two women, the Vatican said Saturday.

Alwi Shihab, former lecturer at Harvard, former foreign minister, and now the Indonesian president's special envoy to the Middle East and to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

As a special envoy of Christ, he recognizes that, just as Jesus suffered on behalf of others, so too the apostle suffers for the salvific benefit of the gentile converts.

At the State Department Thursday, Desbois received recognition for his efforts with a certificate of appreciation, the first awarded by Hannah Rosenthal in her role as the U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism.

Former British prime minister Gordon Brown, who now works as a U.N. special envoy on global education, said, «Nobody will believe a word the Taliban say about the right of girls like Malala to go to school until they stop burning down schools and stop massacring pupils»...

Led by Trade Minister Steven Ciobo, Trade Special Envoy Andrew Robb and Tourism and International Education Minister Richard Colbeck, this year's edition will see more than 1000 delegates, mostly small - to - medium business owners, attend events spread over nine cities on the mainland as well as Hong Kong.

He served as Australian Special Envoy for Cyprus from 2000 to 2007.

It was opened in 2005 — funded by the actress and special envoy to the UNHCR — as a boarding school for bright or at - risk girls.

Davis was appointed Special Envoy for Women and Girls in ICT for the UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

The Sri Lankan government has warned of «major repercussions» from the UK decision to appoint a special envoy to the country.

Buhari who played host to Special Envoy of President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea, Thursday in Abuja said that since terrorism no longer respects national borders, the international community must urgently evolve and implement more effective collaborative measures to enhance global security.

It is notable that unlike Hu Jintao, Xi has quickly consolidated his power base and demonstrated resolve on the North Korean nuclear crisis, stating to a South Korean special envoy earlier this year on 23rd January that China «could not tolerate North Korea possessing nuclear weapons».

We then turn to Northern Ireland where Mr Haass was US Special Envoy, to discuss the peace process, NI's potentially important role in this election, and whether The Troubles are truly over.

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Martin Longden has been appointed as the UK's Special Envoy to Syria in succession to Gareth Bayley.

Ambassador Gosende received Presidential Awards for his service as USIA's Director for African Affairs and as President Clinton's Special Envoy for Somalia.

Lord Levy, his long - standing friend and, laughably given his Zionist views, special envoy to the Middle East, was arrested but not charged for his role.

When asked, local advocates tend to name California as the most progressive state in both environment and clean energy standards; its governor, Jerry Brown, was named special envoy to the states for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in mid-June.

In my new role as the UN Secretary - General's Special Envoy for Financing the Health MDGs, I have been charged with formulating a business plan to ensure that resources are secured to meet the malaria goal of near zero deaths, as well as the other maternal, child, AIDS and TB goals by the end of 2015, the internationally agreed deadline.

The president who said that his government was committed that, made the disclosure while in audience with the Special Envoys of President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi, Maj. - Gen.

Lord Levy, Blair's chief fundraiser and his special envoy to the Middle East, also came in for questioning.

So soon after the latest cash for access scandal involving Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind, is it really sensible to take cash from the former politician who «enjoys the best contacts that money can buy — as do those willing to pay him for access to those contacts» and is the subject of a new book designed to expose «the private dealings of this very public figure ``, who's made his fortune selling his soul to the oil - rich potentates he mixes with as special envoy in the Middle East and brutal dictators like those of Burma and Kazakhstan?

During the UN summit, which he is attending as the UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, President Kufuor will participate in the «Climate Dialogue,» which is part of deliberations towards next December's Climate Change summit in Paris, France, where governments around the world are expected to make legally binding declarations towards reduction of gaseous emissions into the atmosphere to limit world temperatures to below two degrees by 2030 of pre-industrial levels.

The meeting took place on the sidelines of the London summit on ending sexual violence in conflict, co-hosted by Mr Hague and UN special envoy and actress Angelina Jolie.

The footpath outside Australia House on The Strand has been a hive of party activity for a week and yesterday, British Labour sent a special envoy in an 11th - hour plea for expat votes.

In a related development, Osinbajo earlier on Wednesday received a Special Envoy of the Nigerien President, Mr Issoufou Mohamadou, Mr Foumakoye Gado.

But Tory Sir Eric Pickles, the UK special envoy on post-Holocaust issues, branded it a «terrible decision».

UK special envoy on post-Holocaust issues slams «terrible decision» as crisis grows in Jeremy Corbyn's party

Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell (D - Maine) spoke to aspiring litigators at the Albany Law School this month where he discussed his time on Capitol Hill and his role serving the country as special envoy overseas.

«I can't imagine a scenario where U.S. companies are not in that game,» echoed U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Jonathan Pershing.

Xie Zhenhua, China's top special envoy, reiterated yesterday that his country's stance on the climate deal will «remain the same and unchanged,» no matter what the world's other economic superpower chooses to do.

Sasanelli commenced his service as special envoy for higher education and trade to Europe in January this year.

China's top special envoy Xie yesterday noted China's willingness to partner with other countries or alliances, including the European Union.

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said in a statement to ClimateWire: «At the upcoming meeting of their presidents, the United States and Brazil will address the broad range of bilateral issues that engage them.