Sentences with phrase «first foreign leaders»

Trump this weekend invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington next month, making the Israeli one of the first foreign leaders with whom the new president will have met after taking office.

Relations between the U.S. and its closest ally have been repeatedly strained since Trump took office a year ago and U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May became the first foreign leader to meet him at the White House.

Trump's visit has been anticipated for more than a year, after May was the first foreign leader to be hosted by the president at the White House after his inauguration.

World leaders typically exchange gifts, and Trump and Abe did so when Abe rushed to New York City in November to become the first foreign leader to meet with Trump after the election.

Abe was the first foreign leader to meet Trump, and the two countries» military alliance has helped to sustain peace in East Asia for the past 60 years.

His first foreign leader to be received here.

Theresa May was the first foreign leader to visit Mr Trump in the White House following his inauguration in January 2017.

Mr Cameron will be the first foreign leader to travel on Air Force One as he journeys to Ohio to watch a baseball game.

Significantly, Xi became the first foreign leader to address Indonesia's Parliament.

US President Barack Obama was the first foreign leader to congratulate Mr Cameron in a brief telephone call.

Egyptian President El - Sisi was the first foreign leader to call and congratulate Mr. Trump on winning the presidential election, signalling Egypt's eagerness to form a strong relationship with the new president.

Not exact matches

In contrast, the first visit by a foreign leader at his Mar - a-Lago estate was a friendly weekend of meetings, dinners and golf that suggested the new president was willing to invest time in developing close personal relationships with leaders he feels he can work with.

In his keynote speech at the Boao Forum for Asia on Tuesday — his first to a foreign audience since starting a second term as leader — Xi pledged to open China's doors «wider and wider» to the world.

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.

VANCOUVER — B.C. workers must be first in line for construction jobs and apprenticeship opportunities, but the Christy Clark government does not track temporary foreign workers in our economy, says B.C. New Democrat leader John Horgan.

No pope in history had been so universally acclaimed by Jewish leaders throughout the world: the renowned Nobel Prize - winning physicist Albert Einstein; Chaim Weizmann, who would become Israel's first President; Moshe Sharett, who would become Israel's first Foreign Minister and second Prime Minister; Rabbi Isaac Herzog, the Chief Rabbi of Israel» all of these figures showered Pius with praise for his actions in defense of the Jews.

It has been widely claimed, although with no confirmation yet by students of the presidency, that Barack Obama is the first American President to have thus lowered himself to a foreign leader.

Although these also include first names of foreign leaders, parents will no longer be able to name their baby girls Linda, Sandy, Elaine or Lauren.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet President Trump at the White House on June 26, the White House and Indian Foreign Ministry announced, the first meeting of the two leaders in Trump's presidency.

Obama will join German Chancellor Angela Merkel for a forum in Berlin next month in his first appearance alongside a foreign leader since leaving office in January.

I am module leader for the third year module British Foreign Policy and the first year British Politics module.

The House leader should be investigating foreign funding sources for this project, but instead she is turning her ire on concerned Americans, including families, firefighters and other first responders who care deeply about this issue.»

Trump had alerted his millions of followers to three video posts by Britain First, a small group of ultranationalists whose supporters march in front of mosques with crosses and whose leaders decry what they describe as a takeover of British Christian society by «foreign infidels» who want to impose Islamic law.

Prime minister: David Cameron Deputy prime minister: Nick Clegg (LD) First secretary of state and foreign secretary: William Hague Chancellor of the exchequer: George Osborne Home secretary: Theresa May Defence secretary: Philip Hammond Business secretary: Vince Cable (LD) Work and pensions secretary: Iain Duncan Smith Energy and climate change secretary: Ed Davey (LD) Education secretary: Michael Gove Communities and local government secretary: Eric Pickles Scotland secretary: Michael Moore (LD) Chief secretary to the Treasury: Danny Alexander (LD) Leader of the House of Lords: Lord Strathclyde Attorney general: Dominic Grieve

Shadow First Secretary of State, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Angela Eagle MP Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell MP Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Seema Malhotra MP Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham MP Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn MP Opposition Chief Whip Rosie Winterton MP Shadow Secretary of State for Health Heidi Alexander MP Shadow Secretary of State for Education Lucy Powell MP Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Owen Smith MP Shadow Secretary of State for Defence Maria Eagle MP Shadow Lord Chancellor, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice Lord Falconer of Thoroton Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Shadow Minister for the Constitutional Convention Jon Trickett MP Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Lisa Nandy MP Shadow Leader of the House of Commons Chris Bryant MP Shadow Secretary of State for Transport Lilian Greenwood MP Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Vernon Coaker MP Shadow Secretary of State for International Development Diane Abbott MP Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland Ian Murray MP Shadow Secretary of State for Wales Nia Griffith MP Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Kerry McCarthy MP Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities Kate Green MP Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Michael Dugher MP Shadow Minister for Young People and Voter Registration Gloria De Piero MP Shadow Minister for Mental Health Luciana Berger MP Shadow Leader of the House of Lords Baroness Smith of Basildon Lords Chief Whip Lord Bassam of Brighton Shadow Attorney General Catherine McKinnell MP Shadow Minister without Portfolio Jonathan Ashworth MP Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning John Healey MP

Trump, meanwhile, boarded Air Force one for his first foreign trip as president where he'll meet with Middle Eastern and European leaders.

Becoming leader of the Commons after being foreign secretary is normally seen as a demotion, but, by ensuring Hague remains as first secretary of state, Cameron is signalling that Hague will still be a very senior member of the government.

The highest - profile members of parliament leaving were: Gordon Brown, a former Prime Minister, Leader of the Labour Party (both 2007 — 2010) and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1997 — 2007); and William Hague, the outgoing First Secretary of State and Leader of the House of Commons and former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (2010 — 2014), Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition (both 1997 — 2001).

Prime Minister: David Cameron Deputy PM & First Secretary of State: William Hague Chancellor of the Exchequer: George Osborne Leader of the Commons: Ken Clarke Home Secretary: David Davis Foreign Secretary: Sir Malcolm Rifkind Business & Employment Secretary: John Redwood Communities & Social Justice Secretary: Iain Duncan Smith Cabinet Office Minister: Francis Maude Defence Secretary: Dr Liam Fox Environment and Energy Secretary: Oliver Letwin Leader of the Lords: Lord Strathclyde Nations Secretary: Lord Trimble Education Secretary: Michael Gove Health Secretary: Chris Grayling Women & Equalities Secretary: Theresa May Pensions & Welfare Reform Secretary: David Willetts Trade & International Development Secretary: Alan Duncan Justice Secretary & Lord Chancellor: Dominic Greive Transport Secretary: Damian Green Farming, Food & Rural Affairs Secretary: Nick Herbert Housing & Local Government Secretary: Philip Hammond Culture Secretary: Julie Kirkbride

«The summit, which will also include presentations from other leaders and speakers will feature first - hand experiences and interactions from government and business leaders in the continent, while providing credible opportunities and encouraging foreign investments.

Gordon Brown (prime minister) Jack Straw (justice secretary) Alistair Darling (chancellor) Hilary Benn (environment secretary) Harriet Harman (leader of the Commons) David Miliband (foreign secretary) Douglas Alexander (transport secretary) Lord Mandelson (business secretary and first secretary of state) Alan Johnson (home secretary) John Denham (communities secretary) Shaun Woodward (Northern Ireland secretary) Baroness Royall (leader of the Lords) Jim Murphy (Scotland secretary) Peter Hain (Wales secretary) Michael Wills (justice minister) Nick Brown (Commons chief whip) Lord Bassam (Lords chief whip)

The advisory group had been due to hold its first meeting with her, McDonnell and the party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, but that never took place because she stepped down on Sunday after Corbyn sacked Hilary Benn as shadow foreign secretary.

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Jerome Ringo (The Apollo Alliance & NWF)- Jerome Ringo is chairman of the board of the National Wildlife Federation, the first African American in such a leadership position at a major national environmental group and was recently named president of the Apollo Alliance, a coalition of organized labor, environmental, business and civil rights leaders determined to free the United States of dependence on foreign oil.

During Mr. Xi's 2015 trip to America, Mr. Zuckerberg posted about how the visit offered him his first chance to speak a foreign language with a world leader.