Sentences with phrase «foreign policy departments»

With Nick Harvey leaving defence, and Jeremy Browne moving to the Home Office, there is now no Lib Dem representation in the major foreign policy departments.

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You almost might look at [it] as a member of State Department, having impacts on foreign policy as well.

The shrinking of the US State Department and the sidelining of its diplomatic corps, the backbone of American foreign policy, were major themes during Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's first year at Foggy Bottom.

During one event attended by the prime minister that week, an investment seminar hosted by the Japan External Trade Organization and the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry at the Pierre Hotel, Dr. Ziad Haider, special representative for commercial and business affairs at the US Department of State said, «Secretary Kerry... likes to say that foreign policy is economic policy, and in saying that he's referring to that interplay between foreign policy, foreign affairs, economic issues, and it's certainly true with bilateral diplomatic relations, as well.»

The two conservative senators this week expressed deep concern that MacManus was too close to Clinton during her tenure, doesn't share Trump's «America First» agenda and other conservative foreign - policy goals, and, as one of Clinton's closest advisers, was deeply involved in the State Department's initial response to the Benghazi attack.

«At the conclusion of the meeting senior members of the Foreign Exchange Administration and Policy Department advised that due to lack of existing applicable laws, capital controls and the fact that Bitcoin straddles multiple financial facets the following Bitcoin activities are illegal in Thailand:

His emphasis on hard power and intelligence - gathering as the primary means of pursuing Canada's interests is now echoed by the current administration in Washington, which has gutted the State Department, allocated record amounts of funding to the military and appointed military - minded men in key foreign policy positions.

Rep. Bob Goodlatte has sent requests to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the Justice Department seeking information about the surveillance of former Trump foreign policy adviser CarteForeign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the Justice Department seeking information about the surveillance of former Trump foreign policy adviser Carteforeign policy adviser Carter Page.

This is precisely why the proposal to align Canada's aid with its foreign policy and commercial interests in an amalgamated department is of great concern.

The President has replaced two key and moderate foreign policy advisors with hard liners in Mike Pompeo at the State Department and the even more bellicose John Bolton as National Security Advisor.

Our high level of foreign ownership may limit our opportunity to participate in U.S. government travel contracts and the Civilian Reserve Air Fleet program, however, if we are unable to satisfy policies and procedures of the U.S. Department of Defense for the mitigation of foreign ownership, control or influence required of cleared U.S. contractors.

Mr. Jha served as the Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion and Chairman of Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) in his capacity as Secretary, Economic Affairs.

[274] During the same month the Foreign Exchange Administration and Policy Department in Thailand stated that bitcoin lacks any legal framework and would therefore be illegal, which effectively banned trading on bitcoin exchanges in the country.

Bitcoin said on its homepage on July 29 that «senior members of the Foreign Exchange Administration and Policy Department advised that due to lack of existing applicable laws, capital controls and the fact that Bitcoin straddles multiple financial facets Bitcoin activities are illegal in Thailand.»

Previously, he was Deputy Chief Economist at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) with responsibility for economic analysis in support of trade negotiations and trade litigation, and served as contributing editor of DFAIT's Trade Policy Research series (2001 - 2007 editions).

The Nunes memo alleges that FBI and Justice Department officials relied on an unsubstantiated dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele to get a warrant to conduct surveillance of Page, who served on the Trump campaign's foreign policy advisory team.

Social network theorists and activists give the event a veneer of authenticity, but in truth it boasts a toxic piñata of attendees: U.S. officials, telecom magnates, security consultants, finance capitalists and foreign - policy tech vultures like Alec Ross (Cohen's twin at the State Department).

Perhaps in no instance was that more apparent than the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, when State Department policy prevented consular officers from properly scrutinizing the visa applications of several of the 19 foreign nationals who went on to murder nearly 3,000 Americans.

It is for this reason that SPUC has launched The Mayisha Campaign (Mayisha meaning Life in Swahili) to raise awareness about maternal mortality, dispel the myths put about by abortion groups and lobby the Department for International Development to adopt an ethical foreign policy which respects the lives of both mothers and their babies.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Wine Institute today announced a restructuring of its Federal Relations and International Public Policy Departments to streamline its work with U.S. government agencies, the U.S. Congress, and foreign governments and international organizations.

William Hague has ordered a radical overhaul of Britain's foreign policy starting with a major restructuring of his own department.

Given the looming March 1 deadline for across - the - board sequestration which would reduce State Department operations by $ 850 million and foreign assistance by $ 1.7 billion, the US» chief diplomat used his speech to defend the foreign policy budget against spending cuts, portraying foreign affairs as the guarantor of American economic prosperity.

Without providing an explicit blueprint for the Obama administration's second term foreign policy agenda, Kerry situated State Department activities within the present strategic context and hewed to the current war fatigue of US politicians.

She is a former Jean Monnet Fellow of the European University Institute in Florence, and was a Cadieux Research Fellow in the Policy Planning Staff of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs.

Throne - Holst and Calone mentioned Zeldin's votes against funding for the Department of Homeland Security and student loans and Pell grants as signs that he is out of touch with the district, and Democrats have indicated they will attempt to paint the foreign policy hawk and only Jewish Republican in Congress as too extreme for the moderate swing district.

Putin felt that Mendeleve was a terrible foreign policy leader and Hillary's State Department was dancing mental circles around Mendelev at all avenues.

A department spokesman said: «The UK has pursued an effective foreign policy in the last ten years, which has been values driven, activist and multilateralist.

The Justice Department lawsuit to block the proposed AT&T - Time Warner merger has an unexpected fan: former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.

Mark - Viverito, a native of Puerto Rico, will also call for including the Department of Probation in the NYPD and Department of Corrections» policies of not honoring ICE requests to hold a foreign in custody in most cases.

The review will be carried out by every department that is affected by EU policy and collected by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Cabinet Office.

Selected Jefferson Science Fellows spend one year on assignment at the U.S. Department of State or USAID as science advisors on foreign policy issues.

While the economy struggles to overcome the drag of rising gas prices, a group of AAAS S&T Policy Fellows from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) traveled to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado in March, to see how DOE's investments in scientific research and development are easing the country's dependence on foreign sources of energy.

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Michele Flournoy, Senior Advisor, Boston Consulting Group; Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, US Department of Defense Banning Garrett, Director, Strategic Foresight Initiative, The Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security, Atlantic Council Stephen J. Hadley, Principal, RiceHadleyGates LLC Chuck Hagel, Chairman, Atlantic Council Mikael Hagstrom, Executive Vice President, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific, SAS Annette Heuser, Executive Director, Bertelsmann Foundation Robert Hormats, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and Environment, US Department of State David Ignatius, Associate Editor, Washington Post James L. Jones, former National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama Robert Kagan, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution Hisham Kassem, Founding Publisher, Al - Masry Al - youm Newspaper Frederick Kempe, President & CEO, Atlantic Council Christopher A. Kojm, Chairman, US National Intelligence Council Marne Levine, Vice President of Global Public Policy, Facebook George Lund, Chairman, Torch Hill Investment Group H.E. Ashok Kumar Mirpuri, Ambassador to the United States, Republic of Singapore Moises Naim, Senior Associate, International Economics Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Chief International Columnist, El Pais Barry Pavel, Director, The Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security, Atlantic Council Paul Saffo, Managing Director of Foresight, Discern Analytics; Senior Fellow, Strategic Foresight Initiative, The Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security, Atlantic Council Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Advisor to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush James Steinberg, Dean, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University Philip Stephens, Associate Editor, Financial Times Christopher Williams, President, Christopher A. Williams, LLC

Speaking to the State Department's Foreign Affairs Policy Board, Stern warned that there will be «enormous pressure» on donor countries to show they are making progress on a vow to generate $ 100 billion annually by 2020 for clean energy and adaptation.

MiSciNet: In a recent issue of Science (10 May 2002, p. 996), it was reported that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has adopted a policy by which it will no longer apply for visas to permit foreign scientists to work in its labs.

Through this cadre of science and foreign policy experts, the Department of State will continue to advance policies that bolster the global repertoire of scientific knowledge and further enable technological innovation.

High school shall record transfer credits, course grades and course level designations based on the Evaluation of the Foreign Secondary School Credentials provided by the Department of Educational Policy and Procedures, Foreign Student Services.

The new mandatory fingerprinting policy means the fingerprints of all accused tax evaders will be recorded in the Canadian Police Information Centre database, accessible by Canadian police officers as well as some foreign agencies such as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and border officers.

Currently they are in conflict — U.S. foreign policy is focused on increasing global use of oil and gas via pipeline deals — Nabucco, Baku - Tiblisi, Chad - Cameroon, etc — all of which have large support from the US State Department and client agencies like the IMF and the World Bank.

The department plans to conduct «an in - depth assessment of potential alternative routes,» while also considering «environmental concerns (including climate change), energy security, economic impacts, and foreign policy.»

Not only is Canada withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol, but the Climate Change office at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) is busy silencing art which is critical of government policy on climate change.

The Defense Department, the State Department, and other U.S. entities focused on foreign policy and national security list climate change as a growing concern.

James» artworks were viewed by officials within the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) as critical of government policy.

He served as a senior agricultural analyst for the U.S. Department of State for between 1980 and 1988 under the Reagan administration, «where he was responsible for assessing the foreign - policy implications of food and farming developments worldwide.

UCL Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy Department, previously Special Representative for Climate Change at the UK Foreign Secretary

We have particular expertise in advising on Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control («OFAC») and Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security («BIS») regulations and the implementation of appropriate compliance policies and procedures.

More broadly, our defense, trade, financial and national security lawyers liaise with the US Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, Department of the Treasury and Department of the State — as well as the congressional committees of jurisdiction — to address our clients» foreign policy - related needs and concerns.

Our practitioners include retired diplomats, as well as officials from the US Departments of State and Defense who analyze US foreign policy and that of other nations on behalf of clients.

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