Sentences with phrase «foreign affairs committee»

«What we're experiencing is an unprecedented, highly coordinated, deliberate and systematic attack intended to drive us out,» the Christian charity's lead attorney Stephen Oakley told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday.

Opposition MPs including ranking member on Foreign Affairs committee, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa have said such agreement with the US makes Ghana a prey to terrorists because «anywhere they [US] have gone terrorists have gone after them».

Daria Zhuk, 27, came forward in February — one of several female journalists to level claims of harassment against Leonid Slutsky, head of the powerful foreign affairs committee in the Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament.

The stinging Government Accountability Office (GAO) report detailing the findings, commissioned by Democratic House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman, criticizes the EPA for failing to establish a rigorous, national approach for disposing of the waste.

Within a few years of our involvement, al - Qaeda had been substantially curtailed — the 2011 foreign affairs committee report substantiated this fact.

Prior to the meeting with Mr Brown the Buddhist leader will address MPs on Wednesday and give evidence to the House of Commons foreign affairs committee on Thursday as it prepares its report on human rights.

«My elder brother was taken away by these thugs without any reasoning and then they came back and started beating up my nephew, and they used stakes and violently beat him up,» Chen told the House Foreign Affairs Committee from his hospital room.

16:16 - I've just returned from an interview with foreign affairs committee chair Richard Ottaway, who will be voting with the government later.

Meanwhile, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted last week to pass two resolutions: one calling for support of the creation of an international war crimes tribunal to prosecute those involved in Syria, and the other calling the crimes perpetrated by ISIS against Christians and other minorities there «war crimes,» «crimes against humanity,» and «genocide.»

But DiSiena on Tuesday said that Zeldin has attended «over 80 percent of his House Foreign Affairs Committee meetings that have dealt with ISIS or Syria.»

A special subcommittee of the Knesset Foreign Affairs Committee estimated in the past that in order to meet Israel's security needs, no less than 13 batteries are required.

The revelation made by the ranking member on Parliament's foreign affairs committee Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has it that, the genesis of the defence deal which has since generated public debate was when Mr Trump placed a phone call to Akufo - Addo to negotiate the terms of the deal.

Former Liberal Democrat leader and member of the Commons foreign affairs committee Sir Menzies Campbell called for Israel's ambassador to be summoned to the Foreign Office to answer any allegations.

Debate on Kurdish rights once more took place in the Commons this week with a brief debate at short notice on the recent Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) report on «an...

He told the Commons foreign affairs committee late last year that a no - deal outcome «is not helpful for them in comparison with us».

17:10 - piracy victims Paul and Rachel Chandler, before foreign affairs committee, on: Piracy off the coast of Somalia

In January, the DCCC highlighted allegations that Zeldin missed more than half of full House Foreign Affairs Committee hearings in his first year in Congress, that were first reported by the New York Post.

Mark Pritchard MP is Vice Chairman of the Conservative Foreign Affairs Committee and a member of the National Security Strategy Committee.

Neil Parish and Tom Tugendhat also won their elections for the Environment and Foreign Affairs committees respectively.

The Commons» foreign affairs committee argued that political reconciliation in Afghanistan could be impeded by ongoing fighting with insurgents.

And it is right for the opposition, before voting for a commitment which would cost, according to Crispin Blunt [the Tory chair of the Commons foreign affairs committee] # 168bn, we have to make sure that it works.»

The Commons» foreign affairs committee want ministers to think again over the 16 % reduction in funding for the World Service seen in the spending review, much more than the ten per cent cut handed to the wider Foreign Office.

Foreign Affairs Committee boss Mr Blunt attacked the spiralling cost, claiming it could hit # 167billion.

He has now been invited to appear before Russia's parliamentary foreign affairs committee on 24 March.

On 5 January, the UK Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) published a report into piracy off Somalia, with its conclusions reflecting wide - ranging international and commercial issues.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce announced he will not run for reelection, boosting Democrats» chances of winning his Southern California district as they work to regain control of the majority this year.

Foreign Affairs Committee report into piracy off Somalia welcomed by shipping industry, reports Stephen Askins

Before leaving for Taipei, the committee had a meeting with the Chinese People's foreign affairs committee in Beijing.

Led by opponents of women's health, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted 23 — 17 yesterday to eliminate U.S. funding for to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.

FILE: Rep. Gregory Meeks (D - N.Y.) speaks at a House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting.

Bob Nault, who heads the House of Commons foreign affairs committee, will be taking his blunt assessment directly to Capitol Hill in the coming days.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce said Monday he will not seek re-election this year, adding his name to a growing list of senior Republican lawmakers who have chosen to retire in what is shaping up to be a difficult election year for the GOP.

Said Rep. Ed Royce, R - Calif., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: «I am very concerned by reports of deep cuts that could damage efforts to combat terrorism, save lives, and create opportunities for American workers.»

Biden, for all his gaffe - prone goodness, has a deep government resume, including three decades in the Senate and service on both the judiciary and foreign affairs committees.

The Russian leader's visit is a «major step toward a strategic partnership of the two nations,» said Mikhail Margelov, head of the foreign affairs committee in the upper house of the Russian parliament, according to RIA Novosti.

Cummings said in the letter, which he wrote with the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Eliot Engel, that «it appears that General Flynn violated federal law by omitting this trip and these foreign contacts from his security clearance renewal application in 2016 and concealing them from security clearance investigators who interviewed him as part of the background check process.»

In response to Russian provocations, the Pentagon is developing new unmanned systems, a new long - range bomber, a new long - range stand - off cruise missile, and a number of innovative technologies, McKeon said in testimony to a joint hearing of the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees.

But the heavy artillery was as usual relegated to domestic Russian politicians: Leonid Slutsky, head of the Russian Duma's foreign affairs committee, accused the U.S. of a sharp escalation in diplomatic tensions.

He is currently a member of the European Parliament, where he sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee, and a Chairman of the Conservatives and Reformists parliamentary group.

Last week, representatives from Compassion International went before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and talked to them about their obstacles with serving children in India, mainly that the Indian government's...

Last week, representatives from Compassion International went before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and talked to them about their obstacles with serving children in India, mainly that the Indian government's regulations would result in the organization being driven out of the country because of a lack of access to funds.

In December, Compassion went before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to discuss some the obstacles they had been facing while serving children in India.

They testified before the US House of Representatives» Foreign Affairs Committee.

The foreign affairs committee, publishing its report on East Asia today, calls on the government to change its policy towards China, which it describes as a major «regional and international player».

America's ambassador to Britain Louis Susman told MPs on the Commons» foreign affairs committee that the US believed the treaty was completely reasonable.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee — including three New Yorkers — recorded a bipartisan video in support of Team USA that's headed to Sochi.

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