Sentences with phrase «by foreign office»

Armoured kidnap protected Saloon (Body 141/1) buit to order for «Use in Italy» (special items fitted include even «Marchal Alarm Kit «B»» supplied by Foreign Office.

The international development secretary first claimed that stories that she'd met Israeli officials while on holiday this summer were an attack by the Foreign Office.

They include a planned visit by Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne, the dispatch to the South Atlantic of a # 1 billion warship and the recent arrival of Prince William for a six - week deployment as a Sea King pilot.

His comments reflect a call by Foreign Office minister Kim Howells on Monday for other Nato members to provide more support for the international force attempting to tackle the drugs trade in southern Afghanistan.

The ambassador, Dr Sami Khiami, was told by the Foreign Office that intimidation and harassment would not be tolerated by the British government.

While such a move would require a protracted legal process, complete with appeals and checks against international law, the letter sparked outrage at British plans to «storm» the embassy, prompting many observers to brand it an own goal by the Foreign Office.

Yesterday's ruling was sparked by a Freedom of Information request by researcher and campaigner Chris Ames, originally blocked by the Foreign Office.

It later emerged that the Royal Visits Committee is chaired by Foreign Office mandarin Sir Simon McDonald, and is made up civil servants representing the Queen, Prince Charles, Prince William and the prime minister.

It rejected claims by the Foreign Office that publication was not in the public interest, ruling the Williams draft «might be capable of adding to the public's understanding of the issues in question».

The letter Patino received was being played down by the Foreign Office this morning, but it does mention the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987, which allows the government to revoke diplomatic status of an embassy on UK soil.

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.

Syrian ambassador Sami Khiyami has been called in by Foreign Office officials as the UK strengthens its rhetoric over violence in Syria.

Claims by British Muslim groups that Britain's foreign policy is responsible for the current critical terror alert have been rejected by Foreign Office minister Kim Howells.

Ratcliffe has already been underserved by the Foreign Office, whose representatives have repeatedly told him they don't want to give the case a higher profile as he lobbies to raise awareness of it.

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.

But Labour's call is being resisted by the Foreign Office, which is refusing to commit to a specific deadline for Russian cooperation.

A Russian law which equates homosexuality with paedophilia has been attacked by the Foreign Office, as relations between the two countries reach a new low.

When he arrived in the street at 6.30 pm, the plucky Pole surprised everyone, including Mr Cameron, by arriving at the Horseguards Parade end of Downing Street and emerging on foot from the iron gates by the Foreign Office, instead of being driven in a limo from the Whitehall end, which most official visitors are.

This was a scheme conceived by the Foreign Office prior to the Falklands Crisis of 1982, though it had precious little political support in Britain.

He has recently visited a number of European countries in what has been seen as a pre-Brexit charm offensive orchestrated by the Foreign Office.

However, the BBC World Service IS directly funded by the Foreign Office (UK government department).

Not exact matches

The financial affairs of numerous previously low - key unlisted or foreign - owned companies headquartered in Western Australia have been released by the Australian Taxation Office for the second year running.

Today it teems with more than 300 head - office employees whose diversity is staggering by any standard, a mix of men, women, Saudis, and foreign nationals representing 23 different countries.

However, once you open a small development office with a few employees in California, your business will probably be considered to be doing business in California and you will have to file a Statement and Designation by Foreign Corporation form with California.

Unfair trade practices detailed by the office of the U.S. Trade Representative accuse China of using «joint venture requirements, foreign investment restrictions, and administrative review and licensing processes to force or pressure technology transfers from American companies.»

Even to this day there are three or four foreign exchange companies that run their head - office functions out of Victoria as a result of the expertise left behind by the Custom House alumni.

Nearly one in five had no foreign offices or partners, instead serving their customers and dealing with suppliers from Canada, a model made increasingly feasible by the Internet.

Your identity has by now been logged into some vast spy database in a foreign country (probably China), where an intelligence agency is building up a profile around your persona — sourced from personal information available on social media and through breached health insurers, airlines, government offices, and the like.

As emails disclosed by WikiLeaks laid bare internal concerns about how the Clinton Foundation's funding might impact the former Secretary of State's run for the Oval Office, former President Bill Clinton announced in August that the nonprofit would reject corporate and foreign donations if Hillary Clinton prevailed in her campaign.

This same president may well have been helped into office by a hostile foreign intelligence service colluding with his campaign.

US citizens are still able to travel to Cuba, although tourist trips are heavily regulated by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and may require a license.

Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird, left, is greeted by his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi during his visit to China's Foreign Ministry office in Beijing, China, Monday, July 18, 2011.

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.»

The Foreign Office and the Home Office (previously run by a cautious Theresa May) had sent warnings about cyber espionage and the lack of reciprocity for British companies.

Though Trump announced at his January 11 press conference that he would not pursue additional foreign deals while in office and that he would move his assets into a trust controlled by his children, income from the Panama project will continue to roll in.

On March 19, 2018, the US Department of the Treasury issued guidance regarding virtual currency sanctions levied by its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), explaining that OFAC may add specific digital currency addresses to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List.

«RBC is the bank of choice for correspondent banks with offices in Canada as a result of our ability to offer clients access to RBC's solid infrastructure and branch network as well as the knowledge and understanding of foreign markets, technical expertise and strong client focus provided by our Banks, Brokers and Exchanges team.

Britain has already felt the impact of the tougher Xi approach over Hong Kong with the refusal late last year to allow a Commons select committee to visit the former colony and, in January, the snubbing of the Foreign Office minister Hugo Swire by the two most senior Hong Kong officials.

Flashback: When Failing POTUS held his little Oval Office shindig with Russian FM Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Kislyak — with only a TASS photographer and FSB / SVR case officer in attendance — Failing POTUS «let slip» some code word intel provided to the US by a foreign liaison contact.

JPMorgan's involvement in the rigging of foreign currency has now been looked at by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the U.S. Justice Department, the Federal Reserve, and the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority.

PNC's Shanghai office is prohibited from engaging in any form of operational business activities in compliance with the People's Republic of China on Administration of Foreign - funded Banks released by the State Council.

The IRF office carries out its mission by issuing reports on persecution, meeting with foreign government officials, partnering with NGOs, and reaching out to religious communities.

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

One reason was notdissimilar to the suspicions of the Foreign Office traditionally voiced in British political circles: that it is run by people whose instinct is to «go native».

The Foreign Office is urgently looking into reports that a soldier who may have been kidnapped by Hamas is British - Israeli.

«Creating Opportunities for the Irish Dairy Industry in Algeria» was a joint undertaking of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade — supported by Breifne O'Reilly, Ambassador of Ireland to Switzerland, Algeria and Lichtenstein — and Enterprise Ireland's Milan Office which covers both Algeria and Morocco.

And by that criterion alone, the Foreign Office has had a bad week.

Loss of his marginal seat in 1945, followed a few months later by his re-election for the safe seat of Bromley, was the base for his successful ministerial career after 1951 - housing, the Foreign Office and the Treasury.

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.

Britain is the largest investor in Russia and UK exports to Russia rose by 46 per cent last year to # 4.1 billion, according to the Foreign Office.