Sentences with phrase «as special envoy»

Echoing a claim Bush has frequently made since the attacks on September 11, 2001, Bremer asserted, with all the authority his 14 months as special envoy to Iraq confers, that Osama bin Laden and al - Qaeda attacked the U.S. because they «hate freedom.»

As your Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern is fond of saying, politics is the art of the possible.

Prompting organizations such as the Special Envoy for Women and Children as well as the PUP and the NCFC to call for a heighten concentration on social and mental health issues.

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

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.

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?

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

Historically, presidents or prime ministers have commissioned special diplomatic envoys for specific assignments, primarily overseas but sometimes also within the country as ambassadors - at - large.

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.

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.

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.

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

«Given that Mexico was the key place where this concept was developed and formalized, Mexico wanted to be an important player going into the meetings in Paris,» said Carlos Pascual, who served as the U.S. ambassador to Mexico from 2009 until 2011 and later the State Department's special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs.

«But mayors, as we know, have never waited for Washington to act here in the United States,» said Bloomberg, who is also the United Nations» special envoy for cities and climate change.

Zaelke credited Obama and his team — including Kerry, U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and former Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern — with working to till the ground for an HFC amendment even as they worked toward other objectives, like the Paris deal.

In 2003, she was appointed as UNESCO's Special Envoy for Basic and Higher Education and in 2008 the Secretary General of the UN appointed her as Alliance of Civilizations Ambassador.

The lawyer representing Brown's suit in New York pro bono is Jay Lefkowitz, a senior partner at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis who previously worked as former President George W. Bush's deputy assistant for domestic policy and special envoy for human rights in North Korea.

He serves as the United Nations Special Envoy and co-chair of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission.

As the UN secretary - general's special envoy for cities and climate change, I encourage President Obama and Prime Minister Harper to engage in talks that can lead to an agreement that will benefit both our nations» economies and environments.

Bloomberg, who was named UN special envoy for cities and climate change last week, told a conference call he sees his next mission as getting leaders on side for a global climate deal.

COPENHAGEN — Jonathan Pershing, the State Department deputy special envoy on climate change, represented the United States as climate talks opened in Copenhagen on Monday.

As we are now only 3 weeks away from crucial climate change negotiations in Bangkok (which will set the stage for this years 18th Conference of the Parties, in Doha), US Special Envoy on climate change — Todd Stern — has dropped a bit of a bomb during a speech at Dartmouth.

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern delivered a speech on Wednesday (June 3) on the relationship of China and the U.S. and what both must do together as we head into a crucial period of bilateral and multilateral meetings on climate change.

Or as Shyam Saran, Special Envoy of the Indian Prime Minister, said, the G20 is not the forum for substantive discussions of climate change.

Now employed as a United Nations special climate envoy, Robinson — who was talking up the Paris UN climate summit scheduled for December — says that:

Mr. Joubert, Senior Advisor and Special Envoy Energy and Climate at WBCSD, currently serves as the Chair of the Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change, sits at the Advisory board of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership where he is part of Faculty; he is also Executive Chairman of the Global Electricity Initiative at the World Energy Council; He holds several Advisory positions to the CEOs of major Global Cites and sits on various Boards and Advisory Boards as Non-Executive Director.

Good thing, especially since the United States» position, as articulated today by U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern, is also that China will have to look to other sources of funds, such as its own $ 2 trillion in reserves.

But, for all intents and purposes, as «Special Envoy for Climate Change», Stern would appear to be the U.S. head honcho on the «climate front».

While the 2 degree is a compromise, PM's special envoy Shyam Saran told journalists in Italy, «We do not regard this as an arithmetical target; we regard this as a political decision because there is a great deal of uncertainty with respect to what would be the actual rise in temperature, what would be the consequences of that rise of temperature.»

Professor Lea will draw on his experience serving as science advisor to the Special Envoy on Climate Change in the U.S. Department of State.

At both of the sessions the «revered» UN climate celebrities spoke, also known as Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, and Mr. Ahmad Alhendawi, the Secretary - General's Special Envoy on Youth.

From 2013 - 2016 he served as Senior Adviser and India Counselor to the U.S. Special Envoy on Climate Change, and as a Staff Climate Adviser in the Secretary of State's Office of Policy Planning in the U.S. Department of State.

Mr Bloomberg commented on Twitter that: «As the new UN Special Envoy for Climate Action, I'll work with state and non-state actors to help implement policies that reduce emissions & build resilience».

But as for the future, «the uncertainty is definitely not helpful,» said Eileen Burbidge, a venture capitalist at Passion Capital and a special envoy for fintech for the UK Treasury.