Sentences with phrase «of embassy staff»

The US is withdrawing about 60 % of its embassy staff from Havana after attacks that caused traumatic brain injuries and permanent hearing loss in at...

There is an established line of Strasbourg jurisprudence which holds that restrictions on the access to court of embassy staff engage Article 6, but can be justified with reference to «the legitimate aim of complying with international law to promote comity and good relations between States» (Sabah El Seil v France (2012) 54 EHRR 14, at [52]-RRB-.

Not exact matches

Putin in July ordered that the US reduce its staff at the US Embassy and consulates in Russia by 755, including diplomats and technical staff members, many of them Russian, in response to new US sanctions imposed on Russia because of its interference in the 2016 presidential election.

The U.S. considers Russian diplomats to be undeclared spies, conducting intelligence operations under the guise of being embassy staff.

Part of the problem, diplomats said, was that he concluded the meeting by asking the assembled staff to avoid talking about the situation outside the secure confines of the embassy, even with their families.

Yet it appears that secrecy, psychology and politics may all have played some part in how the phenomenon spread through the staffs of the two Havana embassies.

The next day, March 29, DeLaurentis gathered about four dozen members of the embassy's American staff — everyone in the building who had a security clearance.

While the first embassy staff members were sent to be evaluated by specialists at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine, officials in Washington also began to look more widely at what might be causing their symptoms.

«There's now palpable frustration across a number of sectors of the American business community feeling increasingly squeezed by an ever - more - emboldened China,» said Scott Mulhauser, a former chief of staff at the American Embassy in Beijing.

The Obama White House keeps in close contact with American Jewish leaders, trumpeting what it says is a close relationship with Israel around developments like this month's transport of the Israeli ambassador and staff out of Egypt after the Jewish state's embassy there was attacked, an operation in which the United States played a major role.

At the U.S. Embassy in the Republic we met with two of the staff whose line of thought followed the line we received at Gulf & Western, especially regarding a pay raise.

While in the Canadian capital of Ottawa, the NVV delegation also hosted a wine education reception for more than 50 members of the Canadian Parliament and U.S. Embassy and Canadian Parliament staff.

Our Embassy's Staff is hoping for another legendary night of the #WorldCup for #Holland!

Embassies now need to become active members of virtual communities through writing posts for popular Diasporic websites, by engaging in online discussion forums, offering analysis with regard to events happening in the country of origin and making embassy staff available for virtual Q&A sessions.

More recently, there have been alleged sabotage attempts of electric plants, deliberate and politicised hoarding to induce shortages [5], and several US embassy staff have been expelled after being accused of making overtures to the military.

Otherwise the embassy would have to maintain a permanent staff of diplomatic couriers, approved as diplomats in every country they might need to go to.

The Trump administration will kick nearly two - thirds of Cuba's embassy personnel out of the United States after months of mysterious attacks targeting American diplomats drove the White House to pull its own staff from Havana.

This will mean some parts of the world will now be under - resourced and that embassies will no longer be staffed by experienced diplomats.

Given that while an Ambassador is the formal representative of a State to a foreign government, if he is recalled the delegation (embassy staff et al) can remain at their post.

Foreign Office failure to host meal for former SNP leader and UK embassy staff shows «deep politicisation» of department under Philip Hammond, says Salmond

The purpose of the visit, which also included Congress and US embassy staff, was to observe firsthand the ALMA telescope and support facilities, the most sought - after astronomical observatory.

During the crisis which follows the Iranian Revolution, six of the staff members at the American Embassy in Tehran escape the embassy, the centre of the crisis, and hole up in the residence of the Canadian ambassador tEmbassy in Tehran escape the embassy, the centre of the crisis, and hole up in the residence of the Canadian ambassador tembassy, the centre of the crisis, and hole up in the residence of the Canadian ambassador to Iran.

His much - garlanded drama Argo — based on the true story of how the CIA invented a fake movie project with fake Middle East locations in order to smuggle embassy staff out of Iran — had a sharp sense of both heroism and imposture, and was a neat exercise in tension and drama.

Each of these «Corners» has a basket of 75 French titles chosen by the Albertine staff in collaboration with the French Embassy's Cultural Services offices.

Diplomatic missions, diplomatic personnel and non-diplomatic staff, who are the nationals of the concerned foreign countries and hold official passport of foreign embassies in India can open foreign currency accounts in India.

Did you know that Two Siamese cats discovered microphones hidden by Russian spies in Holland's embassy in Moscow In Holland's embassy in Moscow, Russia, the staff noticed that the two Siamese cats kept meowing and clawing at the walls of the building.

The drawdown in Havana began in early September 2017 as Hurricane Irma hit the island and was increased to 60 percent of staff later in the month, in the wake of media revelations about afflictions to the two dozen U.S. diplomats and a handful of staff in the Canadian Embassy.

In Benkharbouche v Embassy of Sudan, the Court declared that two provisions of the State Immunity Act 1978, which prevented members of the service staff of two embassies from bringing employment claims before the English courts, are incompatible with Articles 6 and 14 of the ECHR.

The Supreme Court has handed down two judgments concerning the immunity of embassies and diplomatic agents in relation to employment claims brought in the English courts by members of the service staff of diplomatic missions.

And here is something rather more sensible than Mr Hague compromising the security of our own diplomatic staff abroad from Carl Gardner at his Head of Legal blog: Julian Assange: Can the UK withdraw diplomatic status from the Ecuadorian Embassy

When the State Department deems it's necessary to warn its citizens to avoid travel to that country with a travel warning, it's also important to note that the U.S. government's ability to assist their citizens in that area is likely to be severely constrained as a result of conditions on the ground, reduction in staff or closure of the local embassy, or both.

Coordinated operations directly with Headquarter Air Force Staff, Department of State, U.S. embassies and classified government agencies, and commanded and evaluated aircrews on flying standards for worldwide missions.