Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has gutted America's diplomatic corps.
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The pollution did not even spare Delhi's elite diplomatic corps.
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Hill called it "a real turning point" for the diplomatic corps.
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Asked how he broke into the diplomatic corps, Mr. Zampolli shrugged.
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Capella was a high-ranking priest in the Vatican&aposs diplomatic corps.
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It needs to enable its diplomatic corps with the resources it needs.
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But our current leaders have denigrated negotiations and depleted our diplomatic corps.
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He rejected the idea that the governors represent a shadow diplomatic corps.
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Our diplomatic corps will need to be rebuilt after the Trump administration.
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Yovanovitch said that her removal had undercut confidence in the U.S. diplomatic corps.
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Overall, the hearings have provided a boost to America&aposs battered diplomatic corps.
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And that's just part of what happens when you're part of a diplomatic corps.
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Yet, perhaps the best argument for maintaining a robust diplomatic corps is Trump himself.
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"Are tweets policy?" the diplomatic corps has asked the chain of command at State.
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As foreign secretary, it's Hunt's job to stand up for the UK's diplomatic corps abroad.
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"We have frustrated the intended coup d'etat," Interior Minister Nestor Reverol told the diplomatic corps.
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El Salvador will receive a new Venezuela diplomatic corps, named by Guaido, the government added.
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On Inauguration Day, State Department buses carried members of the diplomatic corps to the Capitol.
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It runs the diplomatic corps and sets the tone for Iran's foreign policy writ large.
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What they do note is the disappearance of America's diplomatic corps from the world stage.
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Kate Middleton stunned at the annual Diplomatic Corps reception in a shimmery Jenny Packham gown.
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Trump's disdain for the State Department, diplomacy, and America's diplomatic corps bears much of the blame.
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Prior to that, he had spent decades in the diplomatic corps under Republican and Democratic presidents.
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A larger and better-trained diplomatic corps helps America strike better deals and maintain strong alliances.
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EDT: President Obama hosts the Diplomatic Corps Reception in the East Room of the White House.
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Diplomatic corps: The reaction among other ambassadors in Washington to Mr. Darroch's emails has been uniform.
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An NBC News producer reported that there were nearly 100 seats reserved for the diplomatic corps.
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He first joined the foreign service in 1982 and is highly respected among the diplomatic corps.
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The vacancies in his State Department and his diplomatic corps can now come back to bite him.
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Instead, according to Cowley, Zaikin had said his father was in the Soviet military or diplomatic corps.
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That episode is remembered as the most severe insult to Russia's diplomatic corps in the country's history.
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Carlo Alberto Capella, who was ordained in Milan in 1993 and entered the diplomatic corps in 2004.
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But both Trump and Pompeo have pushed for cuts to security funding for the US diplomatic corps.
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Trump's efforts to "take the legs out from underneath our diplomatic corps" are a "terrible mistake", she said.
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The famously commerce-averse and economics-challenged diplomatic corps wouldn't even think of using that possibility as leverage.
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A draft law would sack the entire diplomatic corps and let the foreign minister rehire whomever he wants.
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U.S. officials will speak to the Washington diplomatic corps about the initiative on Friday, the State Department said.
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Feltman is also expected to visit the organization's project sites and meet with members of the diplomatic corps.
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But Ben-Yehuda said the diplomatic corps' focus on bringing in candidates from high-paying industries is misplaced.
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Ms. Zubillaga is part of a parallel diplomatic corps — a kind of court in waiting — representing Juan Guaidó.
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As for America's diplomatic corps, which has been severely strained under Mr Trump's presidency, it faces further troubles.
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Even some of Bolsonaro's allies in Congress see the choice as an unprecedented affront to Brazil's experienced diplomatic corps.
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He should set new guidelines for how he and the diplomatic corps conduct interviews and engage with the media.
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The tally has been questioned by the two main opposition parties and a wide swathe of the diplomatic corps.
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In my 12 years as a reporter covering the diplomatic corps in Israel, I can't remember a similar case.
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It would be the biggest reduction in resources for the U.S. diplomatic corps and development programs since the 1990s.
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In 1999, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, then Secretary of State under Pope John Paul, sent shockwaves through Taiwan's diplomatic corps.
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It's unlikely she could completely alter the face of the US diplomatic corps in four or even eight years.
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Tillerson is reportedly frustrated with Kushner's involvement in foreign affairs, which are usually handled by the nation's diplomatic corps.
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Mr. Vecchio said he planned to work with them as he built a diplomatic corps in Mr. Guaidó's name.
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The diplomatic corps was no longer limited to rich young men with time and family money to take overseas postings.
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Our correspondent was in Yangon, Myanmar's commercial capital, to learn why the international diplomatic corps there has been so silent.
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To lure residents from the diplomatic corps, Summit will target the residences of United Nations officials that line the area.
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But the Chinese issue seems to have convinced at least Israel's diplomatic corps that it's time to rethink that philosophy.
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And they recounted at length the turmoil this hold on aid provoked in the diplomatic corps in August and September.
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Greenough, 31, is a protocol officer at the State Department in Washington, where she works with the foreign diplomatic corps.
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Meanwhile, foreign leaders are increasingly emboldened in their attempts to drive a wedge between America's diplomatic corps and the president.
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Pompeo tends to flare up around those issues where the tensions between the president and the diplomatic corps are greatest.
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The party has stuffed the civil service and the diplomatic corps with loyalists and has weakened the independence of the judiciary.
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He ended the war a French hero, decorated and prepared to enter, as his mother would have dreamed, the diplomatic corps.
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Why would Trump be so congratulatory of Erdogan given the reservations from his own diplomatic corps and the broader democratic world?
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Capella entered the diplomatic corps in 2004 and before serving in Washington he held diplomatic posts in Hong Kong and Italy.
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The head table, stretching across a giant ballroom, includes the Cabinet, the congressional leadership and the cream of the diplomatic corps.
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The State Department and Iran's Foreign Ministry should have conversations not just at the highest levels, but across their diplomatic corps.
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For many in the diplomatic corps, the latest testimonies confirm the troubling portrait of Mr. Pompeo that has emerged this year.
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The maneuverings highlight what some allies consider a worrisome situation in the Trump administration's diplomatic corps, with sensitive posts left unfilled.
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"Negotiations have to resume as quickly as possible," President Francois Hollande told the foreign diplomatic corps in a New Year address.
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She has become a hero to her colleagues in the diplomatic corps, and the hashtag #GoMasha has sprung up on Twitter.
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One of the State Department's most experienced negotiators resigned Friday, becoming the latest veteran member of the country's diplomatic corps to leave.
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Most important, this shutdown undoubtedly will reinforce a discouraging trend: More and more workers are leaving the civil service and diplomatic corps.
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Monsignor Capella entered the diplomatic corps in 2004, and before serving in Washington, he held diplomatic posts in Hong Kong and Italy.
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"If confirmed, I look forward to guiding the world's finest diplomatic corps in formulating and executing the President's foreign policy," Pompeo wrote.
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"If confirmed, I look forward to guiding the world's finest diplomatic corps in formulating and executing the President's foreign policy," Pompeo said.
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With Secretary of State Rex Tillerson increasingly isolated and the diplomatic corps demoralized, some believe the U.S. is adrift in the world.
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So far, Trump seems to want to conduct foreign relations through White House officials like Jared Kushner rather than the diplomatic corps.
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I'm committed to putting the interests of the American people first and look forward to serving with the world's finest diplomatic corps. pic.twitter.
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So Warren proposes two ways to change that: double the size of the foreign service and improve the diversity in the diplomatic corps.
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Ridiculed as "Obama holdovers" and unable to defend policies that depart so markedly from American interests, our diplomatic corps has been hollowed out.
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Ms. Freeland said the Canadian government was deeply concerned about Mr. Kovrig, in particular, who had previously worked among the country's diplomatic corps.
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The Foreign Service is a jewel of the American national security establishment, with the deepest and most effective diplomatic corps in the world.
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But the tensions between the White House and the diplomatic corps are now flaring up more publicly, and at a more senior level.
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" The American Foreign Service Association, which represents State Department employees, urged that the American diplomatic corps "not be dragged into partisan political battles.
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The CDC cleared all passengers, most of whom are American diplomatic corps or their families, to continue on to California, Alaska officials said.
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"Two brigades in the armed forces equal our entire diplomatic corps," noted Nicholas Burns, a former senior diplomat who now teaches at Harvard.
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We must ensure a robust and supported career civil service and diplomatic corps in order to further an effective national security strategy. 4.
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The reforms target what he views as the most troubling instances of abuse of power in foreign policy and against the diplomatic corps.
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If funds run out, the NASA space program would potentially be unfunded, along with national parks, the U.S. diplomatic corps and agriculture programs.
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Francis may speak to it and other problems when he makes his first address on Tuesday morning to national authorities and the diplomatic corps.
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If that's the case, keep your eyes peeled for more confrontations and pushback against criticism of China from a more assertive Chinese diplomatic corps.
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First lady Nancy Reagan sits with children of the Washington diplomatic corps during a Christmas party at the White House on Dec 15, 1986.
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President Trump literally wants to take money away from the EPA and the damn diplomatic corps in order to boost America's "depleted" war machine.
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The acting U.S. diplomatic corps on the continent had no idea how to respond, as the White House didn't own up to the statement.
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"I think it's also important to stress that there's a very capable diplomatic corps and civil service corps within the State Department," he said.
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Warren said "consistent efforts to take the legs out of our diplomatic corps" by understaffing the service stands to undermine America's foreign policy efforts.
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The city overcame the diplomatic corps' opposition to win out over dozens of other offers and the world body's earlier preference for Greenwich, Conn.
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Why it matters: Like the military, the U.S. diplomatic corps is meant to do its work apart from the partisan political fray of Washington.
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During the time period being examined by the House, a veteran American ambassador to Ukraine was recalled, contributing to a backlash within the diplomatic corps.
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"The diplomatic corps is summoned to the foreign ministry for tomorrow, when it will release a communiqué addressing the imperial threat to Venezuela," he tweeted.
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In Ottawa, due to the size and scope of the bilateral relationship, the US ambassador is pretty much de facto dean of the diplomatic corps.
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Six weeks ago, the State Department threatened to impose a travel restriction on Pakistan's Washington diplomatic corps if the harassment did not end by Friday.
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Staying in the realm of foreign affairs, you might pick up Ronan Farrow's "War on Peace," about the decline of the United States diplomatic corps.
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On December 11, she attended the 2019 Diplomatic Corps Reception at Buckingham Palace in an evening ensemble that was just as elegant as you'd expect.
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The American foreign policy establishment is ambivalent toward Mr. Pompeo, praising him for reinvigorating the diplomatic corps while criticizing him for his policies and ideology.
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Capella, a high-ranking priest in the Vatican&aposs diplomatic corps, was the subject of investigations by the Vatican and in the United States and Canada.
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Despite press reports, this event was planned months in advance and involved approximately 700 guests from government, the diplomatic corps, the media, business, and civil society.
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U.S. officials briefed members of the Washington diplomatic corps on Friday about a multinational maritime security initiative being developed to de-escalate tensions in the Gulf.
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Representatives from the American embassy and other members of the diplomatic corps rubbed shoulders with activists, musicians, artists and a small but excitable handful of journalists.
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But this week, at least, the most reliable method for inducing puce-faced rage in the Brussels diplomatic corps has been to utter the word Spitzenkandidaten.
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In 2011 it created the "European External Action Service", a form of diplomatic corps, and a "high representative" to lead it (currently Federica Mogherini, an Italian).
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Back to President Nixon, who used the full force of the American diplomatic corps to force the Turkish dictatorship into ending the legal Turkish poppy trade.
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U.S. officials briefed members of the Washington diplomatic corps on Friday about a multinational maritime security initiative being developed to de-escalate tensions in the Gulf.
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Washington had never seen a triple murder in the diplomatic corps and the pressure came from all directions—local government, federal government, and the Chinese embassy.
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Ambassador Taylor, Ambassador Yovanovitch, and Lieutenant Colonel Vindman have all demonstrated the professionalism and courage that exemplifies the best of our military officer and diplomatic corps.
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Even within the diplomatic corps, there was considerable consternation about designating a government entity as a terror group, the first time that had ever been attempted.
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A 30-year veteran of the diplomatic corps, Yovanovitch had already been ousted by the time Trump spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25.
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President Trump has gutted the diplomatic corps, and if Congress hadn't stopped him, he would have slashed the State Department by as much as 30 percent.
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Of course, we have many people in the diplomatic corps with a deep knowledge of other nations and their motivations, who understand the limits of intimidation.
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In the letter, which was first reported by Foreign Policy, Elizabeth Shackelford criticized the administration for the "stinging disrespect" she argues it shows the diplomatic corps.
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The mom of three joined Queen Elizabeth and fellow members of the royal family on Wednesday evening for the annual Diplomatic Corps reception at Buckingham Palace.
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Taylor had left government service for a senior position at the U.S. Institute of Peace but returned to the diplomatic corps in June after Yovanovitch's ouster.
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President Trump has gutted the diplomatic corps, and if Congress hadn't stopped him, he would have slashed the State Department by as much as 30 percent.
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Many do not feel comfortable or qualified to provide oversight on the men and women who have spent their careers in the military or diplomatic corps.
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On Tuesday he will celebrate Mass at a major public park and meet with Ms. Bachelet, government officials, members of the diplomatic corps and Chilean bishops.
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"If she had stayed with the State Department she would have been an excellent addition to the U.S. diplomatic corps," said her former boss, Mark Krischik. 10.
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The story is also another chapter in Mr. Trump's war on the wheels of American governance, from the intelligence community to the diplomatic corps to Congress itself.
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Effective diplomacy requires the efficient use of limited resources, a professional diplomatic corps, modern and safe facilities, and secure methods to communicate and engage with local populations.
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Cover Image: U.S. Ambassador Richard Grenell stands for the Diplomatic Corps at Bellevue Castle at the Federal President's New Year's Reception on 14 January 2019 in Berlin.
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"Having, we believe, built better relationships with his team than have the rest of Washington diplomatic corps, we should be well placed to do this," he continued.
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He began his career in the Soviet era and quickly rose through his country's diplomatic corps as the Soviet Union was opening up under Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
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The royal mom joined Queen Elizabeth, Prince William and other members of the royal family at the annual Diplomatic Corps reception at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday evening.
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If he's confirmed, he'll have to keep it that way — or else the deep damage done to America's diplomatic corps during the Tillerson era won't be healed.
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At a ceremony honoring the members of the Diplomatic Corps at Buckingham Palace, Middleton sported the iconic tiara that her late mother-in-law wore in the '90s.
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But the appointment of this high-profile politician to lead Itamaraty - as the foreign ministry is called - was welcomed by Brazil's respected diplomatic corps, largely sidelined by Rousseff.
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An estimated 100,000 mourners, including family members, lawyers, NLD activists and members of Yangon's diplomatic corps, attended Ko Ni's funeral beginning at a Muslim cemetery in northern Yangon.
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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's government does not recognize Maduro as legitimate and said on Saturday it would receive a new diplomatic corps representing opposition leader Juan Guaido.
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Iceland, with its much smaller diplomatic corps, stopped short of expelling any Russian representatives, but announced that no officials will attend this summer's soccer World Cup in Russia.
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The Trump administration, though, has its eyes on "great power competition," meaning preparing the US military and diplomatic corps to confront Russia and China for the long haul.
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He attended an exclusive formal dinner before the inauguration with members of the foreign diplomatic corps where he was photographed with Trump, according to The New York Times.
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Feature With an isolated leader, a demoralized diplomatic corps and a president dismantling international relations one tweet at a time, American foreign policy is adrift in the world.
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Macron set out his foreign policy objectives for the region in his first speech to the diplomatic corps in August, saying he wanted France to maintain a balanced position.
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But even some of Bolsonaro's allies in Congress, where the Senate has still to confirm the appointment, see the choice as an unprecedented affront to Brazil's experienced diplomatic corps.
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Pompeo, who has said he wants to bring "swagger" back to the State Department, called on the agency's diplomatic corps to do its part to carry out American interests.
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He can't change the president, but he can make it his mission to revitalize America's diplomatic corps and get back to trying to solve problems in the real world.
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" After several days of testimony, Senator George Voinovich, a Republican from Ohio, declared, "John Bolton is the poster child of what someone in the diplomatic corps should not be.
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A former ambassador to the United States and China, Jaishankar led Indias diplomatic corps during Modis first term before retiring in early 2018 and subsequently joining the Tata Group conglomerate.
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Now authorities appear to be digging into the entire Russian diplomatic corps operating in the US, with bank records dating back 10 years that show financial conduct flagged as suspicious.
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A former ambassador to the United States and China, Jaishankar led India's diplomatic corps during Modi's first term before retiring in early 2018 and subsequently joining the Tata Group conglomerate.
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Domestic programs prized by Democrats would be cut, the diplomatic corps would be decimated, spending on the military would balloon and a wall would be funded on the southern border.
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They speculated that Mr. Pompeo, a former congressman from Kansas who is highly regarded by Mr. Trump, might be more effective at managing both the president and the diplomatic corps.
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Mr. Trump's tweet caught the diplomatic corps and even his own advisers off balance, since his last meeting with Mr. Kim, in Hanoi, Vietnam, in February, ended in dramatic failure.
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"Arab states saw there was a kind of hysteria, and they knew they could play that card too," says an official at the European External Action Service, the EU's diplomatic corps.
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The count has been questioned by the two main opposition parties, including the Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship, headed by Nasralla, as well as a wide swath of the diplomatic corps.
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In Beijing, he presides over occasional promotional events for Chinese provinces at the Foreign Ministry, inviting members of the diplomatic corps to hear about China's advances in places like Inner Mongolia.
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And, ultimately, we are better off in a world in which Iran doesn't have a bomb and the European diplomatic corps hates us than one in which the reverse is true.
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He later joined the church's diplomatic corps, one of the traditional sources of power in the Vatican, which gave him access to much of the information he alleges in the letter.
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But at other times, she has been Mr. Trump's explainer and defender to the world even as he pulls out of international agreements and seeks to slash the American diplomatic corps.
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After making the donation, he earned a coveted spot at the Chairman's Global Dinner, a pre-inauguration, black-tie gathering intended to introduce the incoming president to the foreign diplomatic corps.
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"Throughout its history, Lithuania was able to shelter, receive and accept peoples of various ethnic groups and religions," Francis said in a speech to President Dalia Grybauskaite and the diplomatic corps.
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Even Gordon Sondland, Trump's closest ally in the diplomatic corps, testified that to this day, he never understood the reason Trump ordered the hold, even though he asked the president directly.
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Mr. LaRoche became a classics major at Boston University and dreamed of teaching English in Japan and working for some diplomatic corps as part of a "highbrow and interesting" career, he recalled.
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Ambassador Volker will draw on his decades of experience in the U.S. diplomatic corps, both at the -- as a representative to NATO, and also his time as -- as a permanent political appointment.
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And the committee announced late Tuesday that it would hold three more days of hearings next week with eight additional witnesses from the diplomatic corps, the White House and the State Department.
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We need a fully staffed diplomatic corps that can skillfully promote American interests abroad, without mucking around in the domestic politics of other countries where our vital interests aren't clearly in play.
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That Mr. Tillerson failed to take into account Seoul's possible reaction was one of several embarrassing stumbles, arising from his own inexperience and decision to insulate himself from the department's diplomatic corps.
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He diverged from Mr. Tillerson's vision for the nation's diplomatic corps, telling Senator Todd Young, Republican of Indiana, that he did not foresee any slowing of its mission or reduction in personnel.
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"I'm not going to get into the issues surrounding the Democrat impeachment inquiry," Pompeo told reporters at the State Department Monday, instead offering sparse praise for the diplomatic corps as a whole.
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Even so, the sense of opportunity everyone felt at the Senate hearing was quickly moderated by the knowledge that the United States diplomatic corps is waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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The Honors List was first established by King George V in 1917 as a way of recognizing achievement for fields other than those coming from the military, diplomatic corps or the aristocracy.
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The big picture: Though favored by presidents, America's preference for selecting ambassadors from outside the professional diplomatic corps is rare among advanced democracies and is opposed by the U.S. Foreign Service's professional association.
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The ambassador can publicly buck the administration, as Nikki Haley did, or serve as the unofficial leader of the diplomatic corps in New York -- driving the agenda and leading on key diplomatic relationships.
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This is the reality of the US State Department under Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, according to new data from the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA), the professional organization for America's diplomatic corps.
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The State Department said Thursday that it is not worried about a recent exodus of several senior officials that has led to renewed concerns over plummeting morale in the diplomatic corps under Trump.
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But the act of doing so flies directly in the face of Trump's radical plan to gut the State Department — and essentially do away with the diplomatic corps altogether, as Vox's Zack Beauchamp explains.
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I saw the commitment and determination of the men and women in the military, diplomatic corps, intelligence agencies and law enforcement who put themselves in harm's way every single day to keep us safe.
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"One thing that's missing is having a de facto representative of the President who is focused on constituent services and that constituency is the diplomatic corps," the person said on the condition of anonymity.
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On Friday, U.S. officials will speak to members of the Washington diplomatic corps about the new initiative to promote freedom of navigation and maritime security around the Strait of Hormuz, the State Department said.
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Asked how the United States can blunt China's growing influence, Pompeo said the U.S. must put its diplomatic corps to work to make sure Southeast Asian nations can access their oil and gas wealth.
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These are disorienting — and some say depressing — times for the country's diplomatic corps, which was already wilting after a year of Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson's leadership style and a lackluster department reorganization.
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Nasralla trails conservative President Juan Orlando Hernandez by 1.6 percentage points according to the official count, which has been questioned by the two main opposition parties and a wide swathe of the diplomatic corps.
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" In a Friday night message on social network Twitter, he said, "The diplomatic corps is summoned to the foreign ministry for tomorrow, when it will release a communique addressing the imperial threat to Venezuela.
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Artemenko knew the proposal would be controversial as it undercuts both the US and Ukrainian diplomatic corps, and he says he knows it angered Kiev, who will have seen it as a pro-Russian proposal.
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" Meeting with the international diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See earlier this month, Francis cited the nuclear deal as one of several important agreements brokered in 2015 that gave "solid hope for the future.
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Part of this is Trump's fault — the president is typically expected to sign off on political appointees, and his "America First" foreign policy runs counter to the values of much of State's professional diplomatic corps.
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His was a life of service — in the military, the diplomatic corps, the business world, the U.S. Congress, the Republican Party, as the 6900st president of the United States and as father to the 2628rd.
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"The city-state's diplomatic corps and security and intelligence personnel are highly respected globally and shown repeatedly that they can host a major summit without allowing any significant security or intelligence slip-ups," he said.
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Mr. Tillerson was roundly criticized by a much-demoralized diplomatic corps, accused of gutting budgets and staffing levels in a reflection of what many see as a long, downward trajectory of the State Department's influence.
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But in Yangon, Myanmar's commercial capital, where the diplomatic corps is based, there is still reluctance to call to task publicly either the military or the civilian administration led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
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The military, diplomatic corps, and intelligence community should not be charged with determining high-level strategy — as part of the executive branch; it is their responsibility to execute the plan that is given to them.
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Notably, Trump has empowered federal agents to arrest undocumented immigrants en masse (though the number of deportations is not rising) and has apparently endorsed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's hollowing out of the American diplomatic corps.
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In August 2017, the U.S. State Department notified the Holy See of a possible violation of laws relating to child pornography images by a member of the diplomatic corps of the Holy See accredited to Washington.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) just released her vision for how she would run the State Department from the Oval Office — and it's a dramatic change from how President Donald Trump has handled America's diplomatic corps.
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"He will also meet with the United Nations Country Team and members of the diplomatic corps, as well as visit U.N. project sites," U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters, adding that Feltman was also visiting China.
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WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Tuesday that he was lifting the State Department's hiring freeze, ending the Trump administration's unpopular effort to slash funding and staffing levels for the United States' diplomatic corps.
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He joined the diplomatic corps after the war and worked briefly as a translator at the Nuremberg war crimes trials before being posted as a third secretary at the embassies in Warsaw and Pretoria, South Africa.
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In addition, the State Department&aposs Worldwide Security Protection fund — designed to ensure the safety of the diplomatic corps — was sliced by $500 million between fiscal years 2017 and 2019, from $4.6 billion to $4.1 billion.
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Tiny Israel has never had to tend to so many V.I.P.s at once, complete with overnight stays and scores of elaborate schedules, and its diplomatic corps, police force and other government agencies were scrambling to prepare.
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On foreign policy, presidents created a vast national security apparatus at the onset of the Cold War and enlisted a defense and diplomatic corps to address how the country should deal with threats and strengthen alliances.
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" Reached on Sunday, Yiftah Curiel, the embassy spokesman, said that Mr. Masot was "not a diplomat and not a full-time member of diplomatic corps — he's an assistant to the deputy ambassador, who handles parliamentary affairs.
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Archbishop Ventura, the apostolic nuncio to France, has been the Vatican's diplomatic representative in Paris since 2009, and he has regularly attended the ceremony, during which the mayor meets with religious leaders and the diplomatic corps.
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A friend in the diplomatic corps duly set up a meeting at the ministry, but when an official ran through a list of capitals in need of Chilean consuls, Neruda could only make out a single name.
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Sources: IG Group , Google/World Bank Originally trained as a physicist and long a member of Switzerland's diplomatic corps, Thurnherr takes home just under six times the average Swiss GDP of some $78,813 per person per year.
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The EU, which established its diplomatic corps in 2011, lobbied the Obama administration to have O'Sullivan be treated as the diplomatic representative of a nation-state and after a lengthy process, got the green light in 2016.
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The same willfulness was on display when he entered the diplomatic corps and, as vice minister of the Foreign Affairs Department for Japan in Manchuria in 1934, resigned in protest of the Japanese treatment of the Chinese.
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Members of the Washington diplomatic corps agreed that the cables Sir Kim Darroch, the British ambassador who resigned yesterday, wrote to London describing the dysfunction and chaos of the Trump administration sounded a lot like their own.
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Conservative nations, with help from the Vatican's diplomatic corps, were simultaneously working to strike the word "gender" from other UN resolutions, believing the term opened the door to greater LGBTQ and women's rights protections under international law.
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House Democrats will also expand oversight of Russia issues and the nature of Trump's relationship with Vladimir Putin; the ongoing military conflicts in Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan; Trump's Iran policy; and the state of America's shrinking diplomatic corps.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials will speak to members of the Washington diplomatic corps on Friday about a new initiative to promote freedom of navigation and maritime security around the Strait of Hormuz, the State Department said on Wednesday.
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" When it was his turn to address the crowd on Wednesday, Pompeo spoke of the "truly humbling" honor of leading the State Department, praising career diplomats and agency personnel, whom he described as the "world's finest diplomatic corps.
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The State Department first notified the Holy See in August of a possible violation of laws relating to child pornography images by a member of the Holy See's diplomatic corps accredited to Washington, the Vatican said in September.
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Trump's comments about Marie Yovanovitch -- a member of his own country's diplomatic corps -- are a stunning breach of norms, former officials say, and lend credence to the claim that her early departure from the post was politically motivated.
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German news media reported this month that members of Turkey's diplomatic corps in the country were seeking political asylum, as tens of thousands of people were purged from the judiciary, military, Civil Service and other influential professions in Turkey.
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Britain has the largest military budget in Europe and a world-class diplomatic corps — not to mention an economy that, if not exactly firing on all cylinders, was on fire compared with much of the rest of the Continent.
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Mexico recently revamped its North American diplomatic corps, replacing Miguel Basáñez Ebergenyi — head of the Washington embassy for only seven months — 26 out of 49 consuls in the United States, and the undersecretary of foreign relations for North America.
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The State Department notified the Holy See in August of a possible violation of laws relating to child pornography images by a member of the diplomatic corps of the Holy See accredited to Washington, the Vatican said in September.
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Kate Middleton wore a stunning tiara and eye-catching jewels as she and Prince William attended a palace party — the Diplomatic Corps reception, an annual event for 1,000 guests including ambassadors, high commissioners and government officials — on Wednesday evening.
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Reviled by the Artists' Union, which denied him full membership for years, he nevertheless found favor with high-ranking officials and the diplomatic corps in Moscow, and enjoyed such perks as a free studio and permission to travel abroad.
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"To increase the DoD budget and decrease the State Department budget which, specific programs aside, the message that that sends is the U.S. will be engaging with the world with its military and not with its traditional diplomatic corps," Prasow said.
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"You know all too well the price of that freedom, which you have had to win over and over again," Francis said in a speech to President Raimonds Vejonis and the diplomatic corps shortly after his arrival in the Latvian capital.
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WASHINGTON, July 17 (Reuters) - U.S. officials will speak to members of the Washington diplomatic corps on Friday about a new initiative to promote freedom of navigation and maritime security around the Strait of Hormuz, the State Department said on Wednesday.
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"In our opinion, Chairman Gowdy has been conducting this investigation like an overzealous prosecutor desperately trying to land a front-page conviction rather than a neutral judge of facts seeking to improve the security of our diplomatic corps," they wrote.
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The reductions in the diplomatic corps have often left them with no one to talk to; the Administration's transactional relationships with authoritarian regimes give them the sense that the President is uninterested in any moral dimension in his foreign policy.
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Mr. Trump's tweet caught the diplomatic corps in Asia and the president's own advisers off balance, since the last meeting between the two leaders, in Hanoi, Vietnam, in February, ended in dramatic failure, and no further substantive talks have taken place.
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By contrast, there have been no comparable recent moves by the military services to suspend the commissioning of officers, and even as the diplomatic corps erodes, Congress just approved a Pentagon budget for next year that would boost troops by 20,000.
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Simon RaskinSpring Valley, N.Y. To the Editor: "Trump Remark About Taliban Stirs Confusion" is determined to paint a potentially constructive gesture on the part of the president as a flip-flop that has sent the diplomatic corps into a tailspin.
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"It added that it "with regard to international and national legislation, guarantees protection, safety, and untouchability for diplomats of any foreign state on the territory of Ukraine, including the representatives of the diplomatic corps of the United States of America.
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"This is definitely dead on arrival," Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters at the Capitol late last month of the proposed cuts to the diplomatic corps and foreign aid.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's newest celebrity took an unusual route to the nation's TV screens - years spent working his way up through the ranks of North Korea's diplomatic corps, followed by months secluded in the custody of the rival South's spy agency.
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The secretary is widely seen as lacking influence with Mr. Trump; often eclipsed on the world stage by the ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley; accessible only to a small coterie of aides; and detached from an increasingly demoralized diplomatic corps.
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WASHINGTON — Ask members of the Washington diplomatic corps about the cables that Sir Kim Darroch, the British ambassador who resigned Wednesday, wrote to London describing the dysfunction and chaos of the Trump administration, and their response is uniform: We wrote the same stuff.
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WASHINGTON — Ask members of the Washington diplomatic corps about the cables that Sir Kim Darroch, the British ambassador who resigned Wednesday, wrote to London describing the dysfunction and chaos of the Trump administration, and their response is uniform: We wrote the same stuff.
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These sources of expertise could be enormously important, as President Ronald Reagan learned when he relied on Secretary of State George Shultz and his diplomatic corps to help guide the US and the Soviet Union toward a historic arms agreement in 1987.
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As a result, the president finds himself more removed than ever from a disenchanted military command, adding the armed forces to the institutions under his authority that he has feuded with, along with the intelligence community, law enforcement agencies and diplomatic corps.
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Better to patrol our language and pick our issues, so that crucial areas of focus — the demoralization of our diplomatic corps, the stacking of the judiciary, the transformation of the presidency into a marketing scheme — aren't lost in the welter and the whirl.
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Such isolation has become the theme of the secretary of state's tenure, as the White House freezes him out of policymaking, allies treat him coldly and his diplomatic corps views him as something of a pariah because of his tendency to ignore them.
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Recent data from the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA), the professional organization for America's diplomatic corps, found that 60 percent of State's highest-ranking career officers quit during Trump's first year; the number of applications to join the foreign service dropped by half.
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"Despite the many as yet unproven accusations made against him, Mr. Ashe was for many years a hard-working and popular member of the diplomatic corps in New York and at the United Nations," current U.N. General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft said in a statement.
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Sondland also seemed to work to shield the president in the diplomatic corps during his text exchanges with Volker and current top US diplomat in Ukraine Bill Taylor, as Vox's Andrew Prokop has written: The texts get even uglier in late August and early September.
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The unexpected invitation on Friday that took Mr. Trump's diplomatic corps by surprise while the president was attending the Group of 353 summit in Osaka, Japan, was a Hail Mary appeal that experts acknowledged paid off in symbolism — if not in immediate concrete gains.
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President Dwight Eisenhower's 1953 Executive Order 10450, which called for the expulsion of homosexuals from all levels of the federal government, contributed to the "Lavender Scare" — the hunting of homosexuals throughout the federal bureaucracy, from the post office to the military to the diplomatic corps.
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The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine described to House impeachment investigators a diplomatic corps under siege by President Donald Trump and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, saying she felt threatened by Trump's posture toward her, according to a transcript of her testimony released Monday.
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But perhaps more significant than her resistance to Giuliani's effort is the fact that Yovanovitch — formerly the most senior member of the U.S. diplomatic corps in Europe, and a widely respected figure within the State Department — became a casualty of Giuliani's pressure campaign in Ukraine.
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The message also offered praise for the U.S. diplomatic corps and urged them to stay the course during the transition process, according to the AP. "I urge you to remain focused on our shared mission and embrace an orderly and smooth transition process," he wrote.
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Logistics The State of the Union is delivered in the chamber of the House of Representatives with members of both the House and the Senate, as well as the justices of the Supreme Court, members of the president's cabinet and the diplomatic corps in attendance.
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Whether he should serve as a megaphone for Mr. Trump and the White House, or be more strident in confronting the president over the uncomfortable realities of foreign policy, is now the central question of Mr. Pompeo's leadership of the United States' diplomatic corps.
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Congress, controlled by Trump's fellow Republicans, may reject some or many of the cuts to the U.S. State Department and Agency for International Development (USAID) budgets, which pay for everything from maintaining America's diplomatic corps to fighting poverty, promoting human rights and improving health in foreign nations.
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"The Ugly American," a book written by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer in the 1950's and often confused with "The Quiet American," written by Graham Greene, was an indictment of the diplomatic corps in Southeast Asia in the years running up to the Vietnam War.
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And he recently shuffled his diplomatic corps in the United States, replacing Mexico's ambassador to Washington and installing new consuls general around the country, in part to strengthen his administration's response to the rise of Mr. Trump and what it reflects about American sentiment toward Mexico.
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W.'s White House allowed Prince Bandar — the dean of the Washington diplomatic corps was so close to the Bush family that his nickname was "Bandar Bush" — to spirit Bin Laden's family members and other wealthy Saudis out of America on jets after the twin towers fell.
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Here's what you need to know: • President Trump plans to invite the Russian president to America this fall, the White House said on Thursday, even as the U.S. military and diplomatic corps were wondering what was said when the two leaders met one-on-one this week.
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Otherwise, according to my calculations, he will have to wait until 2053 — the next time an iftar might coincide with a reception for July 4, a gathering much prized in Paris and to which only a few Muslims, other than from the diplomatic corps, are usually invited.
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The thinning of the diplomatic corps in Caracas will make it harder for Venezuela's neighbors to try to broker talks between the government and the opposition and to persuade Mr. Maduro to allow the entry of humanitarian aid to parts of the country where people are starving.
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RELATED: State of play: Open jobs, uncertainty for diplomatic corps "If the decision is made by the State Department, in coordination with the White House, to nominate you for an ambassadorship, the next thing that happens is you get about a half a truckload of paper," he noted.
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As part of the strategy, the Peña Nieto administration shook up its diplomatic corps in the United States last month: The Mexican ambassador to Washington, Miguel Basáñez Ebergenyi, who had been in the job less than a year, was abruptly replaced by Carlos Sada Solana, a veteran diplomat.
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I have no doubt that Mr. Sanders believes in the rule of law; that he would not use the power of the state against political enemies; and that he would not demean and degrade institutions such as the press, the courts, the Justice Department and the diplomatic corps.
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Described by colleagues as a by-the-book introvert, she joined the diplomatic corps in 1986 and spent the early years of her career in US embassies in Canada, Russia, the UK, and Somalia before doing two years at the State Department as deputy director of its Russia desk.
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Pompeo, who graduated first in his class at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, said on his first day at the State Department that he would work on "getting back our swagger" and putting the U.S. diplomatic corps in "every corner," drawing loud applause from hundreds of staffers.
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Pompeo's morale-boosting talk of "swagger" inside Foggy Bottom, meanwhile, rings more hollow nearly 29 months into his tenure—more image management than vision—after the president's new budget called for axing nearly one dollar in four allocated to the diplomatic corps, a suggestion that met bipartisan condemnation on Capitol Hill.
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Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoCotton warns China: Crackdown on Hong Kong would be 'grave miscalculation' Pompeo expresses concern over North Korea missile tests Pompeo acknowledges 'places where ISIS is more powerful today' MORE has pledged to bolster our diplomatic corps and restore "swagger" to the State Department.
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Hollande, who was giving his last speech to the foreign diplomatic corps before stepping down in May, also said on Thursday that potential Syria peace talks had to resume quickly and include all components of Syrian society, as well as regional actors and be under the auspices of the United Nations.
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In the two months since the presidential election, Ms. Ruiz Massieu has shuttled between Mexico City and the United States, meeting with American government officials to emphasize the importance of the trade agreement, and she prepared her diplomatic corps in the United States to respond to Mr. Trump's immigration threats.
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In Trump's July 133 phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky, the new president of Ukraine, a conversation that is now at the center of a congressional impeachment inquiry, Trump circumvented his diplomatic corps and asked the Ukrainian leader to talk instead with Rudy Giuliani, his personal attorney, and Bill Barr, his attorney general.
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Congress' annual Intelligence Authorization Act requires officials from the State Department to strictly enforce travel rules for Russian diplomats who are within the U.S., however Politico reports Moscow's diplomatic corps within the U.S. has continued to bypass notification rules and freely roam the country, raising concerns they could be participating in surveillance activities.
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Last year, in his first budget request for fiscal 2018, Mr. Trump envisioned a drastic reordering of government priorities, in which a large increase in military spending would be matched by deep cuts to foreign aid, the diplomatic corps, education, environmental cleanup and other domestic programs — many of which he would eliminate.
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Mr. Friedman, who donated a total of $22016,22001 to the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee in 22005, according to federal election records, had been openly saying even before the election that the job — one of the most sensitive and high profile in the diplomatic corps — would be his, according to friends.
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By Monday afternoon, Ms. Yates added to a deepening sense of anxiety in the nation's capital by publicly confronting the president with a stinging challenge to his authority, laying bare a deep divide at the Justice Department, within the diplomatic corps and elsewhere in the government over the wisdom of his order.
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"I think Bogdan will be viewed with some suspicion due to his connections to Kolomoisky, and will be held to account if he is seen to favour his former client by Ukraine's vibrant media, civil society and the international diplomatic corps," said Timothy Ash, head of emerging market research at Blue Bay Asset Management.
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In Liza Mundy's prodigiously researched and engrossing new book, "Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II," she describes the experiences of several thousand American women who spent the war years in Washington, untangling the clandestine messages sent by the Japanese and German militaries and diplomatic corps.
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The accusations leveled — that the president was "using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election" — engulfed two continents amid growing alarm in the United States diplomatic corps and at the Pentagon about Mr. Trump's willingness to use his foreign policy authority for political purposes.
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In his voluntary appearance, Mr. Volker played down the idea that he and other presidential appointees had taken part in anything inappropriate, but he turned over a tranche of text messages with Ukrainian and American officials that showed at least some members of the diplomatic corps were deeply alarmed by what they believed was happening.
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Attracting the right personnel will require Mr. Pompeo to work with Congress and take other steps to change obsolete rules that, for instance, discourage former State Department employees from returning, and require even experienced people to start at the bottom if they have not previously worked in government — denying our diplomatic corps the ability to draw on specialized expertise.
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At the annual Diplomatic Corps reception, which will be hosted by Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace next Wednesday, the royal family traditionally wears their most glamorous regalia and for Kate this year, that will likely include her go-to pearl and diamond tiara and her new sash symbolizing her role as a member of the Royal Victorian Order.
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As officials and historians have debated how the United States suffered what was arguably the most ignominious event in our country's distinguished military history, the only organization that can say that it fulfilled the mission of providing the critical information that might have prevented or mitigated this disaster was the American diplomatic corps, our professional foreign service.
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"Because he refuses to level with the American people about the dangers which he has placed American troops and our diplomatic corps, personnel and civilians, as well as our partners and allies, or demonstrated even a modicum of presidential gravitas, I will attempt to do that," said Mr. Biden, who is one of 14 candidates seeking the Democratic presidential nomination.
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His stated reason was its lack of funding for his promised border wall, but that was only one disappointment for the president in a measure that blocked the hiring of thousands of new border patrol agents; stopped deep cuts to foreign aid, the diplomatic corps and environmental programs; thwarted a push to fund vouchers for private and parochial schools; and even rescued the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities.
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Jeanne Shaheen, ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on State Department and USAID Management, wrote: Taken together, questionable management practices at the Department of State; the attitudes of some in the Administration on the value of diplomacy; declining morale, recruitment and retention; the lack of experienced leadership to further the strength and longevity of our nation's diplomatic corps; and reports of American diplomacy becoming less effective paint a disturbing picture.
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As Vox's Alex Ward wrote: Perhaps by pressuring Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to push out George Kent — one of the diplomatic corps' top Ukraine experts who testified in the House impeachment investigation — or getting Defense Secretary Mark Esper to kick out Laura Cooper, the Defense Department's deputy assistant secretary for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia, who told investigators the White House directed the freeze on military aid to Kyiv.
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For yet another evening reception for members of the Diplomatic Corps at Buckingham Palace, Middleton wore a stunning Alexander McQueen gown with the Lover's Knot tiara and a necklace that belonged to Queen Elizabeth II. Read more:Kate Middleton's best outfits of 2019 so farA $90 floral wrap dress sold out online after Kate Middleton wore it for the Cambridge family's Christmas cardKate Middleton wore a $2,000 floral Emilia Wickstead dress for Mary Berry's Christmas special.
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He will meet with North Korea Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho and Vice Minister Pak Myong Guk, said U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric, adding that the visit was in response to "a long-standing invitation from the authorities in Pyongyang for a policy dialogue with the U.N." "He will also meet with the United Nations Country Team and members of the diplomatic corps, as well as visit U.N. project sites," Dujarric told reporters, adding that Feltman was also visiting China.
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I can now only imagine how surreal it must have felt for Havel as he stood before the entire Congress, the president's cabinet, the diplomatic corps, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff assembled before him in the House chamber in our Capitol Building, with the vice president and the Speaker of the House behind him, all standing in a sustained ovation, a deep show of respect from the oldest democracy on earth to the newest, whose leader had been a political prisoner just a season earlier.
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If you pretended you oversaw the most powerful military, diplomatic corps, and liberal political system in human history, and you wanted to discover the single action that would threaten a friendly people with atrocities, war crimes, and genocide; expose U.S. troops to attack by a foreign state's military; scatter Islamist terrorist prisoners to the winds and invigorate their movement; boost anti-democratic, murderous regimes in Damascus, Ankara, Moscow, and Tehran; shred longstanding liberal alliances; and demoralize citizens of your own nation—you could have barely topped what President Trump has just done.
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