Sentences with phrase «senior foreign office»

The findings will lend weight to the argument of Lady Warsi, who resigned last week as a senior Foreign Office minister after criticising David Cameron for his «morally indefensible» failure to describe the Israeli action as disproportionate.

Warsi, as senior foreign office minister, was responsible for British support for international human rights law and in her resignation letter bemoaned the departure in the previous reshuffle of Kenneth Clarke, and the former attorney general Dominic Grieve.

The British government has not yet received a formal offer for a trial, a senior Foreign Office official told politics.co.uk earlier.

Grant Shapps PROMOTED to Tory party co-chair and minister without portfolio, attending Cabinet; Sayeeda Warsi DEMOTED to senior Foreign Office minister role

They include comprehensive legal advice describing the basis for the operation and comments from senior Foreign Office officials and lawyers.

These days, it's unusual for a senior Foreign Office mandarin not to publish his memoirs criticising the government of his day and the FCO.

Not exact matches

The newly unsealed charge, filed October 3 by the special counsel Robert Mueller's office, said that on January 27 Papadopoulos lied to FBI agents about «the timing, extent, and nature of his relationships and interactions with certain foreign nationals whom he understood to have close connections with senior Russian government officials.»

Britain has already felt the impact of the tougher Xi approach over Hong Kong with the refusal late last year to allow a Commons select committee to visit the former colony and, in January, the snubbing of the Foreign Office minister Hugo Swire by the two most senior Hong Kong officials.

EU commissioners and senior MEPs were quite clear: some had seen excerpts of the speech (broadcast at the same time as the Commission's weekly meeting) or read it; some had been briefed in advance by the British ambassador in the usual Foreign Office softening - up process.

Witness (es): Nigel Fry, Head of Distribution, BBC Global News; Rt Hon Baroness Warsi, Senior Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The charges in part read: «That you Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki whilst being National Security Adviser and Shaibu Salisu, whilst being the Director of Finance and Administration in the Office of the National Security Adviser and Hon. Waripamowei Dudafa (now at large) whilst bring Senior Special Assistant, Domestic Affairs to the President on or about 27th November within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court entrusted with dominion over certain properties to wit: the sum of N10billion being part of the funds in the account of the National Security Adviser with the CBN, the equivalent of which sum you received from the CBN in foreign currencies to wit: $ 47million and $ 5.6 million Euros committed criminal breach of trust in respect of the said property when you claimed to have distributed same to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Primary Election delegates and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 315 of the Penal Code Act, Cap 532, Vol.4, LFN 2004.

«By then senior officials in the Foreign Office and Number 10 will have been involved in months of discussions with their counterparts in other European countries,» he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

Bower is leaving to become communications director at the Foreign Office - and two other senior communications operatives at Number 10 are also preparing to make an exit.

The media parley was jointly organised by PACAC and the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and the Diaspora.

«There is however great unease across the Foreign Office, amongst both minister and senior officials, in the way recent decisions are being made.»

Two senior sources - in Downing Street and the Foreign Office - have told me that a deal has now been done where in future the cost of the BBC World Service - currently # 272m a year - will have to come from the licence fee rather than the Foreign Office budget.

In 2012, Sayeeda was made Senior Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Minister for Faith and Communities.

On my first day at the Foreign Office I also went to see the Permanent Under - Secretary, the most senior civil servant.

The Foreign Office has secured the role of National Security Adviser for one of its senior officials, Sir Peter Ricketts.

But senior Tories are also weighing up a wider reshuffle, which would see Mr Johnson take charge at the Foreign or even the Home Office.

A graduate of William and Mary Law School and Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, Tim previously served as a senior associate with the Communications and Litigation groups of Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP, as well as in the Office of the Chief Counsel for the United States Secret Service.

He also has held several positions in the U.S. Government Accountability Office, including: Assistant Director and Certified Fraud Examiner, Senior Attorney, Legislative Advisor, Senior Foreign Affairs Analyst, and Investigator.

Article by Serena Lim, a senior associate, and Mariel Dimsey, a Registered Foreign Lawyer, from Hong Kong office.

Skills incorporated into sample resumes of Senior Auditors include preparing monthly reconciliations for various cash and foreign accounts, and processing disbursement cancellation documents and submitting notification emails to division offices.