Sentences with phrase «high commissioner»

«The young man wasn't listening to anything I said,» one retired high commissioner said to me at the end of the lunch.

As a long - serving UN high commissioner for human rights, she framed crimes against humanity in strikingly personal terms.

The UN has «not seen a refugee outflow escalate at such a frightening rate since the Rwandan genocide almost 20 years ago,» said UN high commissioner for refugees António Guterres at a New York meeting this summer.

The minister telephoned the British high commissioner in Ghana on the issue, according to internal government documents cited by the Sunday Times, despite the fact it involved British business interests overseas, which is outside Mitchell's remit.

The arrival of the aircraft was attended by the UK high commissioner of Rwanda, Yamina Karitanyi; deputy chief executive of RwandAir, Yvonne Makolo; and Stephen King, head of airline relations, Gatwick Airport.

«Because Myanmar has refused access to human rights investigators the current situation can not yet be fully assessed,» Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, said in a statement Monday.

During the Sierra Leone arms affair, Murray is troubled by a British high commissioner whose propensity for acting outside UK government policy and engagement in diplomatic freelancing results in major scandal.

Editor's note: Akbar Ahmed is professor and Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington and the former high commissioner from Pakistan to the United Kingdom.

The ambassadors and High Commissioners from Egypt, Germany, Guatemala, Ireland, The Netherlands, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Trinidad and Tobago and Uganda served favourite dishes of their homelands.

Here he describes his equally stormy involvement as deputy head of a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) department in the arms for Sierra Leone affair, when a British company supplied weapons to that country's President in contravention of an embargo; his role as single - handed saviour of Ghanaian democracy when deputy high commissioner in Accra, and his participation in peace negotiations in Togo to end Sierra Leone's civil war.

Apart from cases of extra-legal executions of suspects in the custody of the police which are documented by the office of the United Nations high commissioner on human rights, Amnesty international and Human Rights Watch amongst others, the Nigeria police lacks most of the basic skills, facilities and 21st century compliant trainings necessary for proper, effective, efficient and comprehensive policing to comply with global best practices.

The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu while disclosing this in Abuja said already the Minister of Women Affairs, Hajiya Aisha Alhassan and Nigerian high commissioner in Cameroon had swung into action and were receiving a lot of cooperation from the Cameroonian authorities.

Stewart Beck is the president and CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, and former Canadian high commissioner to India.

It's hardly surprising that the report recieves a warm welcome by Alexander Downer, the outgoing Australian high commissioner in London.

This message was sidelined by the media and the so - called High Commissioners and Ambassadors.

Former President John Mahama has held a meeting with former ambassadors and High commissioners who serve under his tenure.

He didn't get the Europe job [of EU high commissioner which went instead to Baroness Ashton], it's sour grapes.»

And to the Tanzania high commissioner in the making you are currently deceiving he would be an NDC leader this year, tell him to stop masturbating and that he should relay this information to his co-dreamers, JDM 2020 is non-negotiable.

On Mahama's assertion that the apology letter issued by Ghana's High Commissioner to the South Africa, George Ayisi Boateng, was forced, Mr Afenyo - Markin defended the embattled high commissioner.

The Labour MP said Commonwealth high commissioners told the Home Affairs Select Committee, that she chairs, they had warned the Foreign Office of Windrush immigration issues back in 2016.

Lehman adds that the government should restore independence to the position of atomic energy high commissioner, which has now become the de facto CEA scientific director,

ghana high commissioner sulley gariba at royal ontario museum.

Ahmed Adheeb, minister of tourism, Maldives; Mohamed Khaleel, Maldives high commissioner to Singapore, and M Maniku, chairman, Maldives Travel Association at the World Travel Awards Asia, Australasia and Indian Ocean Gala Ceremony 2012

Ten ambassadors and high commissioners opened their residences for the sold - out gala evening, Dining with the Ambassadors.

António Guterres, the former prime minister of Portugal and UN high commissioner for refugees, took over on January 1 for a five - year term as the United Nations secretary general.

Instead it calls for the Syrian government to meet their people's legitimate demands, release all prisoners of conscience, lift restrictions on the media and internet and cooperate with the UN high commissioner for human rights.

High commissioner of Rwanda in the UK, Yamina Karitanyi, said: «The launch of a direct route between London and Kigali is a major milestone for our country.

The official video (here) which was being posted by the United Nations High Commissioners for Refugees (UNHCR) on 19 September has more than three million views and half a million likes to date.

Later, posted in West Africa as a deputy high commissioner himself, Murray repeatedly exhibits a similarly cavalier attitude to the diplomatic proprieties, pleading passionately held beliefs and conscience in mitigation.

It ignores the warnings of the UN secretary general, the UN high commissioner on refugees, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

India's foreign ministry condemned the incident as «deplorable» and said it had assured the Nigerian high commissioner (ambassador) that all steps were being taken to protect the country's nationals.

Few people in Ghana attract media attention these days than H.E. Jon Benjamin who is not only the British high commissioner to Ghana but also to Togo, Benin and Burkina Faso.

Also in the photograph are Khalid Iqbal, who went on to be a celebrated landscape painter in his native Pakistan, and Sam Ntiro, the first east African artist to get a show in New York and Tanzania's former high commissioner to Britain.

He has served as ambassador to Ethiopia and high commissioner in Nigeria

«We're the world's biggest dairy exporter, and Canada is probably the most protectionist dairy country in the world,» Simon Tucker, New Zealand's high commissioner, said.

Many foreign ambassadors and high commissioners are members of the organisation which boasts the Duke of Edinburgh as its patron.

Some old fashioned fun was injected into baseball the other day, and it was such a startling innovation that a cry of alarm went up and a neck went out at the office of Ford Frick, baseball's high commissioner.

He served as New Zealand's high commissioner to India and Bangladesh in 1980s, adding diplomat to his resume despite having no formal training.

The UN high commissioner for refugees found hand grenade attacks doubled in May and June compared to the start of 2013, targeted killings occured daily, and mortar attacks were an ongoing threat.

According to Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the UN high commissioner for human rights, «the [Saudi - led] Coalition is responsible for twice as many civilian casualties as all other forces put together, virtually all as a result of airstrikes».

[3] The last two UN High Commissioners for Human Rights have condemned ISIS brutality, [4] as have the UN's Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, and the Special Advisor on the Responsibility to Protect, Jennifer Welsh.

We saw what happened recently at Ada how the Delta Forces stormed the Assembly and seized ballot boxes, we heard what Ghana's high commissioner to South Africa Mr Ayisi Boateng said (some Ghanaians are more Ghanaians than others).

Navi Pillay, UN high commissioner for human rights, issued a statement recently calling for Guantanamo's closure, adding that its existence is a breach of international law.

Immigrants who arrived from the Commonwealth are «being shut out of the system» with some deported or sent to detention centres, says the high commissioner for Barbados.

But when you are appointed as a high commissioner and then you swear an oath of allegiance to the Constitution of Ghana, and the Constitution of Ghana says there shall be no discrimination and that you shall do justice to all manner of persons, then you come and say...

Britain's high commissioner in Pakistan has been summoned to answer questions in the wake of David Cameron's explosive comments about the country's support for terrorism.

Hours before Monday's attack, the UN high commissioner for human rights questioned the measures being taken by Egypt's government to combat jihadism.

Perhaps he saw yesterday's comments from YK Sinha, India's high commissioner to the UK, which made it clear that free movement of people would be a central requirement of any UK - Indian trade deal.