Sentences with phrase «delegation heads»

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the Trump administration was prepared to levy tariffs on China if an American delegation heading to Beijing did not reach a settlement on trade imbalances.

CNBC's Kayla Tausche reports on comments from U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the trade delegation heading to China.

Ross is also part of a U.S. delegation heading to China this week to talk about possible ways to address alleged trade abuses.

In this Monday, March 5, 2018 photo, provided by the North Korean government on March 6, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, his sister Kim Yo Jong, and Vice Chairman of North Korea's ruling Workers» Party Central Committee Kim Yong Chol meet members of South Korean delegation headed by National Security Director Chung Eui - yong in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Very recently, though, there have been indications that the World Cup was lost largely because of a wound that, even as a powerful delegation headed by Henry Kissinger was pleading the American case, was inflicted by our own side.

The delegation headed by Liberian leader Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace laureate and the current chairwoman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), will include Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, Sierra Leone leader Ernest Bai Koroma and former President John Mahama.

There will be government delegations from other countries outside Africa, notably the U.S., where President Donald Trump last week named a delegation headed by the head of Peace Corps to fly to Freetown to partake in the event.

Funding for a Queens district led by Councilman Ruben Wills, who was busted last month for allegedly stealing more than $ 30,000 in taxpayer money, was distributed by the speaker and Queens - delegation head Mark Weprin.

«CFACT delegation headed to Paris to challenge UN climate pact,» PR Newswire, November 24, 2015.

The council on Tuesday night unanimously voted to support a two - person delegation heading to Copenhagen, Denmark, next month to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties.

Not exact matches

Mr. Verdian, the head of the British group, said lots of delegations were jockeying to get an edge on the new technology.

The Vedomosti article said that the head of the Russian I.S.O. delegation, Mr. Marshalko, was affiliated with the F.S.B.

The head of the South Korean delegation also said that Kim had said he understood that the joint U.S. - South Korean exercises had to continue.

«There has to be agreement and consensus across the member countries to take a standard forward,» said Mr. Dunn, who is also the head of the Australian delegation to the committee.

She was elected by ANSI to serve as chair and head of the U.S. delegation for the ISO Technical Advisory Group developing healthcare management standards.

Ahmet Berat Conkar, the head of Turkey's delegation to NATO's parliamentary assembly, said the day after Canikli's comments that the S - 400 purchase was not a political message but a decision based on technical and financial concerns that wouldn't hinder cooperation with NATO partners.

Christian Levesque, chair of the Canadian «mirror committee» and head of the Canadian delegation here in Madrid, had the following to say about the project:

U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson (2nd L) poses for a photograph before talks with his Zimbabwean counterpart Sibusiso Moyo (C) and other delegations at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London, U.K., on April 20, 2018.

The White House said a high - level delegation of administration officials is heading to China on Thursday to discuss trade issues between the two countries.

Perhaps due to the prickly nature of the Canada - China relationship, Harper's visit has a heavy focus on trade and economics, with the prime minister leading a Canadian business delegation to the industrial city of Hangzhou on Friday and Saturday before heading to the capital, Beijing, for two more days of meetings.

At the WTO, Canada heads a group of delegations pressing developing countries to open their economies to the supposedly superior services of foreign financial institutions.

Other members of the delegation, including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Larry Kudlow, who heads the National Economic Council, appear more inclined to strike deals that would accomplish the president's goal of reducing the gap between what America imports from China and what it sells to the country, and thus head off the risk of an escalating trade war.

South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted sources as saying that Choe Son - hui, director - general of the North America bureau chief of the North Korean foreign ministry, was leading the delegation from Pyongyang, while Suzanne DiMaggio, director and senior fellow at Washington DC - based think tank New America, was heading the American delegation.

BEIJING (Reuters)- A U.S. trade delegation in China has been having very good conversations, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday, as he headed into the second and likely last day of talks in Beijing.

A U.S. trade delegation in China has been having very good conversations, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday, as he heads into the second and likely last day of talks in Beijing.

With the Government of Canada he was the Head of Delegation for Canada to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Fisheries Committee and provided fiscal and reporting advice in the development of the 2004 Ten Year Plan to Strengthen Health Care.

Amid few tangible signs of progress, the heads of the three delegations have extended negotiations through the first quarter of 2018, and recent indications are that they may be extended further.

«But then the heads of the delegation of the Catholic Church proposed that any call to stop persecution of Christian should mention first that also Christians in history have persecuted other religions and other churches.»

To settle the matter, the church at Antioch sent a delegation, headed by Paul and Barnabas, to the mother church in Jerusalem to ascertain from the apostles and elders the position of the church in the matter.

Miguel D'Escoto, Catholic priest and head of the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry, looked tired as he sat down to address a delegation of foreign visitors.

One of these planners was Raouf Dabbas, appointed by Jordan's Royal Court to head the environmental delegation from Jordan to the Young Leaders Network, a group of future leaders from Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Israel.

A Manchester United delegation will arrive in Brazil on Tuesday intent on tying up a # 30m deal for Lucas Moura, 19, before the Sao Paulo midfielder, also wanted by Inter Milan, heads off on Olympic duty with Brazil.

Tottenham head the English delegation and host Norwegian minnows Tromso at White Hart Lane in Group K, while Sheriff Tiraspol and Anzhi Makhachkala go head - to - head in Moldova.

Malang Fofana, the head of the Gambia delegation, expressed the concerns of many saying, «Because of the move to «product - based» solutions, funding is already drying up for most infant and young child feeding support programs and for community - based approaches that teach and promote skills to make nutritious family foods from local indigenous ingredients.

The head of the European Union delegation, Marietje Schaake, said her team had seen no signs of «centralised or localised manipulation» of the voting process but that there were concerns about the misuse of public funds at local and national levels by all parties.

The head of the European Union delegation to Ghana has advised Ghanaians to invest in profitable ventures rather than travelling to Europe...

Pennsylvania's congressional delegation already had a 12 - 7 Republican advantage over Democrats heading into the last round of redistricting, when the state lost a congressional seat because of lagging population growth.

The two leaders then took part in a spontaneous photo - op with their entire delegations before heading into the Peace House to talk about specially chosen paintings of South and North Korean scenery that depicted communication between both sides.

The Nigerian leader will attend the official luncheon to be hosted by the government of Cote d'Ivoire in honour of visiting Heads of State and Government and other delegations.

A delegation made up of heads of various Christian and Muslim organisations in DR Congo held discussions with the former President on how DR Congo could ensure a peaceful environment before, during and after their elections as Ghana has been doing successfully for years.

A delegation of lawmakers and first responders will head to Albany Wednesday morning, seeking a state certification allows an emergency services company to operate throughout Niagara County.

Interacting with journalists at the B - Bovid agriculture facility in the Mpohor - Wassa East District of the Western Region, the head of the Israeli delegation said Ghana must take serious measures aimed at improving agricultural practices to reverse the...

Interacting with journalists at the B - Bovid agriculture facility in the Mpohor - Wassa East District of the Western Region, the head of the Israeli delegation said Ghana must take serious measures aimed at improving agricultural practices to reverse the annual import of rice of up to a billion US dollars, coupled with the high importation of poultry products from the Americas.

In 2012, Wills» discretionary funding was stripped from him and superintended by the head of the Queens Council delegation, Leroy Comrie, who together with Mark Weprin steered a mere $ 8,500 to the Young Leaders Institute.

During a visit to the headquarters of the Multinational Joint Task Force, MNJTF, in Chad, the Head of the UN delegation, Ambassador Mathew Rycroft, offered partnership to the MNJTF.

As he headed home Tuesday, five Republican members of the Texas congressional delegation, including Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, praised both Mr. Trump and Mr. Abbott for what they described as «an extraordinary job» in marshaling federal and state resources to confront the disaster.

Buhari said this while addressing a delegation of the justices of the Supreme Court and the Appeal Court as well as heads of other judicial organs who paid him a courtesy visit at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

It will be recalled that last weekend, a delegation of the Secretary to the Federal Government, Bubachir Lawal who represented President Muhammadu Buhari, and three Ministers, visited Dalori community, close to Maiduguri in Borno state to commiserate with the community head over the death of over 200 persons and destruction of the village.

Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz, a Forest Hills lawmaker, will likely be chosen by her 13 Queens colleagues next week to head the delegation, replacing outgoing Councilman Mark Weprin.

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