Sentences with phrase «special envoys in»

In March, Kim met with Moon's special envoys in Pyongyang and held a surprise summit with Xi in Beijing later in the month during his first foreign trip since becoming North Korea's leader following the death of his father Kim Jong Il in 2011.

So soon after the latest cash for access scandal involving Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind, is it really sensible to take cash from the former politician who «enjoys the best contacts that money can buy — as do those willing to pay him for access to those contacts» and is the subject of a new book designed to expose «the private dealings of this very public figure ``, who's made his fortune selling his soul to the oil - rich potentates he mixes with as special envoy in the Middle East and brutal dictators like those of Burma and Kazakhstan?

The footpath outside Australia House on The Strand has been a hive of party activity for a week and yesterday, British Labour sent a special envoy in an 11th - hour plea for expat votes.

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Trump still doesn't have an ambassador in Seoul, his special envoy for North Korea just announced his retirement and the State Department has seen an exodus of career officials since he took office.

(Lewis, in addition to being a former diplomat and a UN special envoy, is also a former parliamentarian, so he seemed a good person to ask.)

The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria said on Wednesday he had invited the Syrian government and opposition to a special meeting next week in Special Envoy for Syria said on Wednesday he had invited the Syrian government and opposition to a special meeting next week in special meeting next week in Vienna.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's special representative for international negotiations Jason Greenblatt will arrive in Israel on Wednesday for what has typically been a routine meeting with envoys from the Quartet on Middle East peace, comprised of the US, EU, UN and Russia.

U.N. special envoy for Palestinian rights Richard Falk said Tuesday the lack of electricity for 1.7 million residents in Gaza Strip is sparking a catastrophe.

Among those who joined us in London: Jane Griffiths, Company Group Chairman, Janssen EMEA; Neelie Kroes, Special Envoy, Startup Delta, The Netherlands; Former European Commissioner for Digital Agenda; Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, Minister of Tolerance, United Arab Emirates; Emma Marcegaglia, President, BusinessEurope; Chairman, Eni SpA; Vice Chairman and CEO, Marcegaglia Group; Nicola Mendelsohn, Vice President EMEA, Facebook; Nicky Morgan, MP, Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities, Department for Education, U.K.; Lubna Olayan, Chief Executive Officer, Olayan Financing Company; Mary Portas, Founder, Portas; Author, Shop Girl; and Helle Thorning - Schmidt, Former Prime Minister, Denmark and Chief Executive Officer, Save the Children International.

In 2008 - 2009, he served as a State Department counterterrorism advisor to the special envoy for Middle East regional security (SEMERS), General James L. Jones.

It says in the early stages of the Iran / Iraq conflict, Donald Rumsfeld, acting as Ronald Reagan's special envoy, gave Saddam NSA satellite images of Iran's battlefield deployment and licenses that allowed Iraq unfettered access to America's arsenal of germ and chemical warfare.

Today, special envoy for North Korean human rights issues Robert King and a group of U.S. diplomats will leave for Pyongyang in an effort to secure the release of an...

³ A war would be a defeat for humanity and would be neither morally nor legally justified, ² the Pope told Bush in a papal message delivered last week by a special envoy.

Today, special envoy for North Korean human rights issues Robert King and a group of U.S. diplomats will leave for Pyongyang in an effort to secure the release of an imprisoned American missionary.

Tillerson also wants IRF to absorb the offices for religious minorities in the Middle East and Asia, the representative to Muslim communities, and the special envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

The special envoy sent to Chile by the Pope to investigate allegations of a sex abuse cover - up is in... More

At the State Department Thursday, Desbois received recognition for his efforts with a certificate of appreciation, the first awarded by Hannah Rosenthal in her role as the U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism.

It was opened in 2005 — funded by the actress and special envoy to the UNHCR — as a boarding school for bright or at - risk girls.

Davis was appointed Special Envoy for Women and Girls in ICT for the UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

Buhari who played host to Special Envoy of President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea, Thursday in Abuja said that since terrorism no longer respects national borders, the international community must urgently evolve and implement more effective collaborative measures to enhance global security.

We then turn to Northern Ireland where Mr Haass was US Special Envoy, to discuss the peace process, NI's potentially important role in this election, and whether The Troubles are truly over.

Martin Longden has been appointed as the UK's Special Envoy to Syria in succession to Gareth Bayley.

When asked, local advocates tend to name California as the most progressive state in both environment and clean energy standards; its governor, Jerry Brown, was named special envoy to the states for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in mid-June.

In my new role as the UN Secretary - General's Special Envoy for Financing the Health MDGs, I have been charged with formulating a business plan to ensure that resources are secured to meet the malaria goal of near zero deaths, as well as the other maternal, child, AIDS and TB goals by the end of 2015, the internationally agreed deadline.

The president who said that his government was committed that, made the disclosure while in audience with the Special Envoys of President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi, Maj. - Gen.

Lord Levy, Blair's chief fundraiser and his special envoy to the Middle East, also came in for questioning.

During the UN summit, which he is attending as the UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, President Kufuor will participate in the «Climate Dialogue,» which is part of deliberations towards next December's Climate Change summit in Paris, France, where governments around the world are expected to make legally binding declarations towards reduction of gaseous emissions into the atmosphere to limit world temperatures to below two degrees by 2030 of pre-industrial levels.

The meeting took place on the sidelines of the London summit on ending sexual violence in conflict, co-hosted by Mr Hague and UN special envoy and actress Angelina Jolie.

In a related development, Osinbajo earlier on Wednesday received a Special Envoy of the Nigerien President, Mr Issoufou Mohamadou, Mr Foumakoye Gado.

UK special envoy on post-Holocaust issues slams «terrible decision» as crisis grows in Jeremy Corbyn's party

«I can't imagine a scenario where U.S. companies are not in that game,» echoed U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Jonathan Pershing.

Sasanelli commenced his service as special envoy for higher education and trade to Europe in January this year.

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said in a statement to ClimateWire: «At the upcoming meeting of their presidents, the United States and Brazil will address the broad range of bilateral issues that engage them.

«Given that Mexico was the key place where this concept was developed and formalized, Mexico wanted to be an important player going into the meetings in Paris,» said Carlos Pascual, who served as the U.S. ambassador to Mexico from 2009 until 2011 and later the State Department's special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs.

The U.S. special envoy admits that a global treaty may not be ready in time for Copenhagen in December thanks to a lack of final legislation in the U.S.

«But mayors, as we know, have never waited for Washington to act here in the United States,» said Bloomberg, who is also the United Nations» special envoy for cities and climate change.

That was the message from James Steinberg, the United States's new deputy secretary of state, and Shyam Saran, the Indian Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Nuclear Issues and Climate Change, at an event at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., today.

Brown, who is now the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change's special envoy for states, will host a summit on subnational action next year in San Francisco to be co-chaired by UNFCCC chief Patricia Espinosa.

«Parties understood exactly what was going on in the discussions in Durban about this new legal agreement,» said Todd Stern, the United States» special envoy for climate change.

The Obama administration will host a high - level meeting to discuss ways to mobilize hundreds of billions of dollars in annual international global warming assistance, State Department Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said in a recent speech.

That's when the first internal conversations began between U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern's office and the White House, allowing Stern to say publicly in Warsaw that a post-2020 process was underway and lobby, successfully, for countries to formally unveil their targets during the first quarter of 2015 (ClimateWire, Nov. 18, 2013).

Peter Ogden, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and former chief of staff to U.S. State Department Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern, called the deal a sign of how far the the two countries have come since openly sparring at the 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Before the summit, Secretary - General Ban inaugurated Gujarat's first 10 MW solar power plant and announced he would be sending former New York Mayor and now U.N. Special Envoy for Climate Change Michael Bloomberg to a major renewable energy summit in New Delhi next month.

This is the issue that is probably, historically, the most contentious in these negotiations,» said U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern.

United Nations Special Envoy for HIV / AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd D. Stern addresses the U.N. climate talks in Warsaw on Nov. 20, 2013.

In 2003, she was appointed as UNESCO's Special Envoy for Basic and Higher Education and in 2008 the Secretary General of the UN appointed her as Alliance of Civilizations AmbassadoIn 2003, she was appointed as UNESCO's Special Envoy for Basic and Higher Education and in 2008 the Secretary General of the UN appointed her as Alliance of Civilizations Ambassadoin 2008 the Secretary General of the UN appointed her as Alliance of Civilizations Ambassador.

A special envoy from the Pope arrives to hear Henry's petition regarding the legitimacy of his marriage, with the fate of Cardinal Wolsey's career, the king's romance with Anne Boleyn, and the nation's relationship with Rome in the balance.

Fire Emblem Heroes is receiving another bunch of special heroes in this month's Winter's Envoy.

The presentations were done by Mr Aaron Benavot, Director at EFA Global Monitoring Report of UNESCO, who introduced Mr. Gordon Brown (UN Special Envoy on Global Education), H.E. Ms Smriti Zubin Irani (Minister of Human Resource Development in India), H. E. Mr Jaime Saavedra Chanduvi (Minister of Education in Peru), Mr James Heckman (Laureate of the 2000 Nobel Economics Prize), Ms Julia Gillard (Chair of the Board of Directors at Global Partnership for Education), and Ms Camilla Croso (President at Global Campaign for Education).