Sentences with phrase «former foreign affairs»

The official ceremony featured ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno - Ocampo, Lloyd Axworthy (former foreign affairs minister of Canada), Louise Arbour (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and former Supreme Court of Canada Justice), Allan Rock (former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations), and Kenneth Roth (Executive Director, Human Rights Watch).

William Dong has impeccable credentials as China's former foreign affairs officer and brings a wealth of experience in hotel development making him an excellent choice to oversee Best Western's expansion here.»

«We, the people of Ghana, have the power to bring about CHANGE in 2016, and return Ghana onto the path of progress and prosperity,» the former foreign affairs minister said.

Muhammadu Buhari is three years older than me, and you see what he is doing in Nigeria,» the former foreign affairs minister told the gathering.

former Foreign Affairs Minister has condemned what he says is the poor attempt at equalization of President John Mahama's controversial gift and a car the NPP government received from the Libyan government.

According to Mustapha Hamid, the former Foreign Affairs Minister finds the entire process used by the Mahama - led administration to accept the suspected terrorists flawed.

Not exact matches

Following the talk by Rice in Beijing this fall, GE hosted a panel whose speakers included Joachim von Amsberg, a World Bank veteran who is now a vice president at the new AIIB, and China's former vice minister of foreign affairs, He Yafei.

Since joining CNBC's Asia operations, Nancy has also interviewed Qatari Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al T; Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on stage at the APEC meeting in Danang; former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at the height of the North Korean crisis in Shanghai and the CEO of Southeast Asia ride hailing and tech giant, Grab, after acquiring Uber's business in the region.

And featuring presentations from: - Taeho Bark, Former Minister for Trade of the Korean Government - Chris Rodwell, CEO, Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA - Gordon Flake, CEO, Perth USAsia Centre - Stephen Smith, Former Minister for Defence and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Perth USAsia Centre - Jeffrey Wilson, Head of Research, Perth USAsia Centre - Darren Levy, TradeStart Adviser, Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA

Former Soviet bloc nation Lithuania received its first cargo of U.S. LNG in August - an event Lithuania's foreign affairs minister called «crucially important for the whole region.»

A reform committee led by Xi called on the Foreign Ministry to «forge a politically resolute, professionally exquisite, strictly disciplined foreign affairs corps,» and in October, Xi appointed China's top diplomat to the country's powerful Politburo, making him the first former Foreign Ministry official in 20 years to reach thatForeign Ministry to «forge a politically resolute, professionally exquisite, strictly disciplined foreign affairs corps,» and in October, Xi appointed China's top diplomat to the country's powerful Politburo, making him the first former Foreign Ministry official in 20 years to reach thatforeign affairs corps,» and in October, Xi appointed China's top diplomat to the country's powerful Politburo, making him the first former Foreign Ministry official in 20 years to reach thatForeign Ministry official in 20 years to reach that level.

Exports from Canada to the U.S. could be subjected to a maximum tariff of 3.5 per cent under the World Trade Organization's «most favoured nation» provision, to which Canada would almost certainly respond with its own tariffs on imports from the U.S. «For Canada, under WTO rules, we'd have to put up barriers with the U.S., and the retaliation would be one of the biggest sources of negative impact for us,» says Dan Ciuriak, a former deputy chief economist with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland did put together a NAFTA advisory council that includes two former Conservative cabinet ministers, Rona Ambrose and James Moore, and Brian Topp — yes Brian Topp, the former chief of staff of Rachel Notley, the New Democratic premier of Alberta.

He noted that Xiao's family was now reportedly trying to apply pressure for his release via Canada's foreign affairs department, and former prime minister Brian Mulroney, but «whether this is too little too late, only time will tell.»

Jerry Jana, Director of Economic Affairs for Malawi's new ruling party (following former President Bingu wa Mutharika's unexpected death in April) has said that long - term projects like the Nsanje port would be shelved while the government dealt with more pressing issues, like the country's fuel shortages and foreign exchange, according to Nyasa Times.

Anand Menon, a professor of European politics and foreign affairs at King's College in London, said Hollande's reaction thus far — France pounded ISIS» stronghold in Syria not 48 hours after the Paris attacks — have made former US President George W. Bush's post-September 11, 2001, response seem «restrained.»

Among the many well - known Canadians scheduled as «participants» were Stephen Harper's Conservative cabinet ministers Stockwell Day (who at first denied attending) and the then - defence minister Gordon O'Connor, deputy ministers (Defence) Ward Elcock, Peter Harder (Foreign Affairs), Associate Deputy Minister William Elliott (Public Security), Liberal continentalist Anne McLellan, Canada's former deputy prime minister and a defender of the oil patch, the Alberta minister of energy, Greg Melchin, General Rick Hillier, Canada's chief of defence staff, former Conservative cabinet minister Perrin Beatty, now president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the infamous continentalist Thomas d'Aquino, head of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Rear Admiral Roger Girouard, Maj. - Gen.

Other likely entrants are finance critic Lisa Raitt, foreign affairs critic Tony Clement and former justice minister Peter MacKay.

Len Edwards is Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada and a Distinguished Fellow with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

The Liberals have also attempted to counter the image of Prime Minister Stephen Harper put forth by the Conservative Party, instead portraying him as a controlling and secretive leader with a hidden agenda, and attacking his judgment by tying him to past Conservative scandals, such as the Cadman affair, alleged spending misconduct in the last election, and the conduct of Maxime Bernier, the former Conservative minister of foreign affairs.

Back to the federal Conservative leadership, Fildebrandt has endorsed leadership candidate Maxime Bernier, the Quebec MP known for his libertarian views briefly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs before resigning in 2008 after he acknowledged leaving sensitive government documents out in the open, apparently at his former girlfriend's home.

Bob Carr Professor in International Relations, UTS Director of the Australia - China Relations Institute; former Minister for Foreign Affairs

Former Deputy Chief Economist, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade; Director and Principal, CiuriakConsulting Inc..

The appointment of Ottawa MP Catherine McKenna as Minister of Environment and Climate Change, and former environment minister Stephane Dion as Minister of Foreign Affairs signals that the new federal government may not be as singularly focused on pipelines as the previous government.

The Americans are expected to clarify their demand for more stringent rules of origin in the auto industry during the Ottawa round — which explains why Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is meeting with a roundtable of auto parts manufacturers on Friday, as well as having lunch with former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and his team who negotiated the original Canada-U.S. free trade agreement.

Bob Carr, Professor of International Relations at UTS, Director of the Australia - China Relations Institute Dennis Richardson, former Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade, former Director General of ASIO and former Ambassador to the US Andrew Shearer, Senior Adviser on Asia Pacific Security, Center for Strategic and International Studies, US Moderator: Lisa Murray, Returning China Correspondent, The Australian Financial Review

The Foreign Affairs Minister told Parliament that this is because the former detainees were granted refugee status under the Mahama government in July 2016.

At the time when they came to Ghana, a statement released by the then - Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hanna Tetteh, on January 6, 2015, did not explicitly state that the former detainees would necessarily have to leave the country after the agreement expired.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, has said that the government can not ask the former Guantanamo Bay detainees to return to their country.

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 allegforeign affairs committee Sir Menzies Campbell called for Israel's ambassador to be summoned to the Foreign Office to answer any allegForeign Office to answer any allegations.

Prior to commencing her graduate studies, Serena worked with the former Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lloyd Axworthy.

Foreign Affairs Minister Hanna Tetteh has said the two former inmates of the Guantanamo Bay cell who are being sheltered in Ghana were merely «foot soldiers» of Al - Qaeda with no potential danger to Ghana.

Mike Pompeo, the former director of the CIA, was sworn in as the new secretary of state, completing Trump's overhaul of his foreign affairs and nationals security team.

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.

The idea was first suggested earlier this year by Crispin Blunt, the then chairman of the UK foreign affairs select committee, but has subsequently won the support of the former foreign secretary, William Hague, the former Nato secretary general Lord Robertson and this week the former Spanish foreign affairs secretary, Ann Palacio.

But the prime minister also included some of the Liberal party's old guard, putting former party leader Stéphane Dion in foreign affairs and giving one of his closest advisers, MP Dominic LeBlanc, the role of government leader in the House of Commons.

Lib Dems hope business minister Ed Davey, the party's former shadow foreign affairs spokesman, could influence a new approach to Europe by the government.

Parliament last week held a closed - door meetng with Foreign Affairs Minister, Hanna Tetteh, on the issue of the two Yemini former terror suspects.

Don Q Kim is a doctoral candidate in East Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge, and a former North Korea desk officer at South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

He was appointed Foreign Affairs Minister by former President, Olusegun Obasanjo.

This follows the adoption of the report of the Foreign Affairs Committee on the request for ratification on the agreement between the Government of Ghana and the Government of the United States of America on the resettlement in Ghana of the two former detainees.

The plaintiff, Margaret Banful, who is a former Conference Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sued the AG and the Ministry of Interior and is praying the Supreme Court to declare the government's decision to host the two former detainees as unconstitutional.

A governing council under the chairmanship of former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, a Vice-Chancellor had been appointed and some of them are from the far North.

Delegates included current Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan, former Secretary of State for Wales and former Brexit Minister David Jones, Shadow Transport Secretary Andy McDonald, Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon, Shadow Minister of Women and Equalities Sarah Champion, the SNP's Justice and Home Affairs spokesperson Joanna Cherry QC and the Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, Baroness Sheehan.

[247] As leader of the main party both in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic, he supported the new government led by his former Minister of Foreign Affairs Paolo Gentiloni, also a Democrat.

Many opposition MPs, such as Labour's Mike Gapes, a former chairman of the Commons foreign affairs select committee, tried to «talk it out» by giving long and irrelevant speeches in a bid to make it run out of parliamentary time, but it eventually passed without a vote.

A presenter with TV3 Network Limited, Komla Klutse has blasted former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hannah Tetteh for daring to ask if any Ghanaian media house was going to send reporters to cover the crisis in The Gambia.

Tugendhat is a former senior Army officer who entered the Commons in 2015 and recently became chairman of the foreign affairs select committee.

The former SNP leader is now his party's foreign affairs spokesman, and had been expected to be at Westminster as David Cameron set out the case for extending RAF air strikes against Isil from Iraq into Syria.

Foreign affairs committee member and former soldier John Baron MP has been ubiquitous in the media voicing his opposition to military intervention.