Among the envoys Tillerson is proposing removing are envoys dealing with Syria, the Sudan, the Arctic and climate issues.
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The diplomats include Foreign Service personnel, envoys from other Norwegian government agencies, and military envoys in the office of the Defense Attaché.
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BARNIER MEETS N. IRELAND POLITICIANS & EU 27 ENVOYS - Oct.
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EU envoys are expected to discuss the proposal on Wednesday.
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Envoys were sent to council members to get their signatures.
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American envoys keep trying, but the region is moving on.
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But the envoys barely had time for a cup of tea.
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Over time, Envoys were wiped of feelings of guilt and empathy.
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And they actually were even more powerful than the U.N. Envoys.
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In the books, only the U.N. Protectorate soldiers are called envoys.
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Salvini's office said he would meet Guaido's envoys on Feb. 11.
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Bureaus will take over the envoys' allocated budgets, staff and responsibilities.
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He will attend a business conference with envoys from both countries.
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Here's what you need to know: • Dueling envoys or Olympic détente?
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Paying guests were mostly journalists, international envoys and visiting Afghan officials.
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Some envoys expressed caution about how far that could be done.
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There is widespread agreement that the weedy proliferation of special envoys (not just those with that specific title, but also other powerful single-issue envoys outside State's regional and functional bureau chains of command) must be pruned.
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Then on June 3rd envoys from Russia, America and the EU arrived.
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Trump has already selected envoys to China, Israel and the United Nations.
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Former commanders and envoys have warned that it would be a mistake.
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Go deeper: U.S. envoys drafted statement committing Ukraine president to Biden probe
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Western envoys also have been calling on the president to step down.
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Pedersen has already met envoys from seven countries including the United States.
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Several Western envoys breathed a sigh of relief, but not without doubts.
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The envoys also sought a more forthright Indian response, the sources said.
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South Korean envoys visited Washington last month to convey Kim's invitation to meet.
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We are, of course, talking about President Trump giving Russian envoys classified information.
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To avoid duplication, it suggested trimming the department's 68 special envoys and advisers.
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It held meetings with Taliban envoys, in the hope of initiating formal negotiations.
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U.N. Security Council envoys are planning to visit Congo in October, diplomats said.
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And the Vienna convention should not give cover to envoys engaged in criminality.
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U.S. envoys have spoken of both sides in the conflict needing to compromise.
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War & PeaceWe arrive in Meereen with the envoys from Astapor, Volantis, and Yunkai.
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The politics of the Envoys in the show are reactionary and anti-technology.
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The United Nations envoys said the hacking targets should be allowed to participate.
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The Mongols destroyed whole cities in response to the mistreatment of their envoys.
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He's appointed envoys who share those views, including national security adviser John Bolton.
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Tillerson is also proposing eliminating special envoys on Syria, Sudan and South Sudan.
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The biggest improvement has been the reduction in the number of special envoys.
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The Taliban's envoys and intermediaries sometimes say the group is prepared for peace talks.
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EU envoys will meet on Thursday morning to discuss the outline of future ties.
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The contrasting envoys represent enemies that have been at war for nearly two decades.
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Both envoys carried photos of plaques at their respective embassies commemorating November 17 victims.
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Haley has twice taken council envoys to Washington, where they have met with Trump.
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A meeting of EU envoys is set to confirm the draft text on Thursday.
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On Monday, Mr. Kim himself hosted Mr. Moon's envoys in Pyongyang — and surprised them.
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Just days earlier, he introduced special envoys for Iran and Syria, equally knotty problems.
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In one meeting, we told President Trump's envoys how important Jerusalem is to Palestine.
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Egyptian and Qatari envoys regularly mediate between them to try to prevent further conflict.
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American envoys have spent months negotiating a peace deal with the Taliban in Doha.
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For one thing, they have a habit of beginning meetings with envoys at 10pm.
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The murdered envoys were called "Hamhung chasa" — messengers who never made it back home.
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Talks between U.S. envoys and Taliban negotiators due to resume in Qatar on Feb.
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Western envoys have been mediating talks between the parties but no breakthrough has been made.
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The mediation efforts involve a Catholic priest and envoys from South Africa, according to reports.
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Envoys from the 28 member states met in Brussels on Thursday to discuss the issue.
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Last month, Iran summoned the envoys of the Netherlands, Denmark and Britain over a Sept.
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Confusion arises in the way the show distinguishes between Quell's soldiers and the Protectorate's Envoys.
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He wined and dined the envoys at the headquarters of the Workers' Party, no less.
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China said last week it would invite Beijing-based European envoys to visit this week.
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Envoys from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania reportedly did appear at the Sunday event.
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"Cutouts"—envoys with no official role—would always be used for an approach like that.
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That does not mean the United States should stop talking to Russian envoys about Syria.
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Certainly, it's never invited comparisons to Mumbai by UN envoys, the way San Francisco has.
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The sides backed off this week, evidently in response to diplomatic efforts by American envoys.
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In other military news, last week NATO envoys celebrated the 70th anniversary of the alliance.
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Envoys from the U.S. and China are preparing for another round of negotiations this week.
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South Korean envoys quoted Mr. Kim as saying he understood that those exercises must continue.
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Foreign envoys are rarely granted permission to travel outside of Kashmir's main city of Srinagar.
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U.S. envoys need to be clear: The era of jawboning and lax cooperation is over.
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The most effective U.N. work is often done by its smaller bodies, agencies and envoys.
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And policy differences are papered over by envoys behind closed doors well ahead of time.
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Besides the dozen envoys there were charges d'affaires from several other countries in the region.
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Australia, Britain, Japan, and Switzerland were among those abstaining, though many envoys spoke against the text.
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At the same time, Trump's envoys have been expressing positions more keeping with previous US policies.
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U.S. national security adviser H.R. McMaster briefed U.N. Security Council envoys in New York on Monday.
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The deputy minister, Liu Zhenmin, also told the envoys that China values Pakistan's position on Kashmir.
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In total, about 400 military envoys have been fired so far, the Turkish military official said.
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Envoys met with Qing officials, but after talks broke down they were seized and held hostage.
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The mission could be run by a joint Franco-British command, one of the envoys said.
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Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador withdrew their ambassadors and Brazil responded by recalling its envoys for consultations.
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National envoys are due to meet the Commission's negotiators on Tuesday evening to discuss a text.
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A statement on behalf of envoys from 42 African countries lamented the lack of "diligent prosecution".
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Foreign Minister Nasser Joudeh told Western envoys after the attack that Jordan's security outweighed humanitarian concerns.
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Efforts by U.S. President Donald Trump's envoys to restart them have not yet shown any progress.
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Above, President Moon Jae-in, center, was briefed by envoys who returned Tuesday from North Korea.
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"Among all the nuclear envoys I've seen for decades, he must be the weightiest," he said.
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The envoys requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about closed-doors meetings.
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Sweden condemned the sentence in October and said it had raised the matter with Iranian envoys.
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Critics were less kind, condemning the envoys' presence as a "shameful" abandonment of the Palestinian cause.
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Turkey pulled its ambassadors from Israel and Washington, and South Africa withdrew its envoys from Israel.
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Mr. Trump has acknowledged discussing terrorism but has not specified what he told the Russian envoys.
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After all, there are nearly 70 "special envoys" or "special representatives" peppered throughout the diplomatic service.
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South Korean envoys had hand-delivered a letter from Kim to Trump on Thursday U.S. time.
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Australia, Britain, Japan, and Switzerland were among those abstaining, although many envoys spoke against the text.
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Mr. Maduro severed diplomatic ties with Colombia, ordering his country's envoys to leave within 24 hours.
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"We're not going to be Donald Trump's envoys or Iran's defense lawyers," said a French diplomatic source.
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He finds it odd that senior Trump aides keep forgetting they spoke to Russian envoys and officials.
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It did not say which countries' representatives had made the comments, or which countries' envoys had attended.
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Trump, Cruz and Kasich all sent envoys to the meeting to explain their pathways to the nomination.
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China informed the envoys of exactly what it had said in public on the issue, Lu said.
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But most European envoys in Beijing think the reality is less dramatic than that, and more opportunistic.
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The negotiation efforts are led by a troika of envoys from the United States, Russia and France.
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In private, envoys to Washington compare the Trump children to princes and princesses in a royal court.
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Envoys are a special force of soldier trained to withstand rapid needlecasting by repressing their human sides.
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Isn't China tricky, the envoys would sigh—though, of course, my country's relations with it are rosy.
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Like the Envoys, these revolutionaries also employed mind-control techniques to be able to sustain frequent needlecasting.
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It seems the word "envoy" is used interchangeably to describe both the U.N. Envoys and the revolutionaries.
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Envoys from the "Five Eyes" intelligence-sharing pact (America, Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand) regularly meet.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union envoys on Friday discussed options for granting Britain another Brexit delay next week.
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Saudi Arabia quickly cut off ties with Iran, giving diplomatic envoys 48 hours to leave the country.
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It often calls on sides to settle differences by peaceful means or send envoys to start negotiations.
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The Qatari envoys spent much of their first day in Baghdad working the phones on two fronts.
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And we have the back story of how two South Korean envoys brought his invitation to Washington.
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The notion of dispatching the Sussexes as the envoys to Africa has provoked all sorts of reactions.
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Nine former American envoys to Afghanistan warned that a hasty withdrawal would only intensify the civil war.
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At least two American envoys overseas -- in Haiti and Botswana -- were summoned to explain the President's remarks.
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Foreign envoys and security analysts said they too believe Chinas strong preference is not to use troops.
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Why Mideast envoys need highly classified material On balance, I'd argue that classified information is vastly overrated.
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Instead, he named two new Special Envoys for Guantánamo Closure, one at Defense and one at State.
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There was even talk of "Obama ambassadors," in reference to veteran U.S. envoys from the career ranks.
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Envoys in Beijing admit that most people in their countries have never heard of Xinjiang or the Uighurs.
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However, AAEI is a project of the Kingdom, and Stapleton serves as one of its cultural diplomacy envoys.
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Senior officials and envoys are not credible representatives of the president, as he has repeatedly undermined their statements.
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Science envoys are leading US academics who work overseas with foreign scientists to build their nation's scientific capabilities.
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It also let Qatari envoys bring cash-stuffed suitcases into the territory; that allowed Hamas to pay salaries.
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Since Bancroft is so old, he remembers what the Envoys had been capable of before they were exterminated.
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"Greenblatt is an envoy of the White House, all others were envoys of the State Department," recalls Shtayyeh.
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But EU envoys are gradually toning down the scale of the reform, according to documents seen by Reuters.
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An annual 'State of UK fintech' report is also planned, along with a network of regional fintech envoys.
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India is also placing increasing pressure on foreign envoys not to meet with those connected with the movement.
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Envoys from the 27 other member states agreed on Wednesday to delay by a week until Wednesday, Dec.
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Successive U.N. envoys have tried to get the government and opposition to the negotiating table, so far unsuccessfully.
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"They expressed their full understanding of the concerns that are being voiced," a statement from the envoys said.
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Like most years, some major world leaders are sending envoys to the General Assembly instead of attending themselves.
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And we have the back story of how two South Korean envoys brought Mr. Kim's invitation to Washington.
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Mr. Kim also promised to suspend all nuclear and missile tests while talks were underway, the envoys said.
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The message from the envoys, American officials said, was that the economic sanctions had really crippled the North.
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On Thursday evening, South Korean envoys made the stunning announcement that Kim wants to meet with President Trump.
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Mr. Parnas said he proposed that the president designate them "special envoys" to ensure their safety and access.
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European Union diplomats are normally senior envoys from their own member states who join the bloc's diplomatic ranks.
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Globally, at least two American envoys overseas -- in Haiti and Botswana -- were summoned to explain the President's remarks.
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U.N. envoys, in letters to Vietnam and Thailand, raised suspicion of an "enforced disappearance" and expressed "grave concern".
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The Security Council met on Monday to discuss a visit by envoys to Myanmar and Bangladesh two weeks ago.
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Rei manipulated Bancroft's death, and then recommended that he hire Takeshi, the last of the Envoys, to solve it.
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Mediation in the conflict has for years been assigned jointly to envoys from France, Russia and the United States.
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The local U.S. ambassador was present, while several Western envoys for Syria were also in Astana to observe developments.
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Some envoys expressed caution about how far that could be done, while others were more open to closer cooperation.
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One of the State Department's seven science envoys publicly resigned Wednesday morning, sharing his resignation letter on social media.
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"So yes we called in envoys from the relevant countries, solemnly expressing China's position on this matter," he added.
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Only a few years ago, it is related, as soon as envoys sat to dine, "stealth boasting" would start.
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For instance, special envoys for both Syria and North Korea remain in place, but come from the previous administration.
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Special envoys and representatives raise the profile of important issues, which might not get enough attention on their own.
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"I'm open on this because I agree with the chairman, we have too many special envoys," said Maryland Sen.
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Celebrations began in Jerusalem on Sunday, though, according to Reuters, numerous foreign envoys invited to participate declined to attend.
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Staffan de Mistura was already expected to meet senior U.S. and Russian envoys in the Swiss city on Wednesday.
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After returning home from Pyongyang, the South Korean envoys will fly to Washington for discussions with the Trump administration.
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Given that, he said the Trump administration should explore the prospect seriously, first by thoroughly debriefing South Korea's envoys.
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Nine senior former American envoys to Afghanistan gave warning that a hasty withdrawal would result only in civil war.
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After returning home, the South Korean envoys will fly to Washington for follow-up discussions with the Trump administration.
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Alert to mortal peril, Athenian leaders dispatched envoys to plead with Pythia, the oracle at Delphi, for divine counsel.
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As his envoys haggled over terms in Brussels, Mr. Johnson met with a parade of unionists and other skeptics.
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Last week, Russia announced that it will expel 22019 American diplomats, as well as envoys from several other nations.
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The Republic of Korea dispatched envoys to Washington to brief U.S. officials on their meeting with their DPRK counterparts.
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Congress should also insist on the nomination of relevant U.S. envoys who are the traditional torchbearers for this issue.
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Francis pointedly told the envoys that it was incompatible with their role to "criticize the pope behind his back".
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One of the clergymen listening to the envoys was Jaime Ortiz de Lazcano, the legal adviser to Santiago's archbishop.
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League leader and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini's office on Wednesday said he would meet Guaido's envoys on Feb. 11.
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The envoys and their families have been given a week to leave the United States, according to one U.S. official.
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A fresco in the foyer included a panel showing Japanese envoys visiting the theater when it first opened in 1585.
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On Wednesday, EU envoys discussed delaying the launch of talks with London on a post-Brexit relationship to next year.
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Presidents rely heavily on special envoys tasked with making deals to resolve prisoner disputes, facilitate peace processes, and the like.
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The document has already been agreed by the EU's national envoys in Brussels but the ministers must formally adopt it.
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The Estonian proposal was discussed by EU envoys on July 13 but no decision was made, an EU official said.
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Barnier told EU envoys on Sunday that the EU could propose extending the transition out to no later than Dec.
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EU envoys in Brussels are set to extend the sanctions on Russia on Tuesday until the end of the year.
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Speaking at the CAPA conference, Western envoys sought to allay Iranian concerns over the delays in approving the airplane deals.
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Addressing his biannual meeting with Russian ambassadors abroad and special envoys, Putin said Russia had not influenced the British referendum.
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Sweden condemned the sentence in October and said it had raised the matter with Iranian envoys in Stockholm and Tehran.
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On March 6th South Korean envoys returned from meeting Mr Kim in his capital, Pyongyang, with a message for America.
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EU Brexit negotiators told national envoys in Brussels on Wednesday that technical talks were still focussing on the Irish issue.
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May's cabinet will convene on Wednesday at the same time as 27 national envoys of EU member states in Brussels.
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UN envoys, world leaders and even rebel groups would call for cease-fires in their respective parts of the world.
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So, whatever the rationale, presidents have the right to remove ambassadors and select other envoys for the post in question.
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Envoys from almost 200 countries are meeting for two weeks of talks on curbing climate change starting Sunday in Poland.
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As the mass leak of WikiLeaks disclosures of classified US diplomatic traffic in 2010 showed, US envoys are no exception.
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But his principal envoys have been crisscrossing the Middle East, conveying a message that directly contradicts the President's initial statements.
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Outside the room, Bulgaria's ambassador tweeted a picture, worthy of Caravaggio, of envoys crowding round one version on a screen.
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In its early days, the Trump administration slashed the number of special envoys, seeing them as an unnecessary bureaucratic layer.
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He has already enacted one broadly popular reform by shrinking the number of special envoys assigned to special diplomatic tasks.
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Read the committee's letter and the texts: Go deeper ... NYT: U.S. envoys drafted statement committing Ukraine president to Biden probe
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Other Arab countries have recalled envoys to Iran and the United Arab Emirates downgraded relations in solidarity with Saudi Arabia.
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Envoys from the 27 other member states met to study them and several said they appeared broadly acceptable to all.
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Last month fifteen foreign envoys visited Kashmir - a trip participants characterized as tightly-choreographed with no room for independent meetings.
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May's cabinet will convene on Wednesday at the same time as 27 national envoys of EU member states in Brussels.
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In effect, Mr. Guaidó was encouraging them to stay in place and serve as his envoys in the United States.
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Another of his envoys there made a strong speech of support for Latin American governments of the left, including Nicaragua's.
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"Things are not looking good," one diplomat said after EU negotiators briefed envoys on the previous evening's talks with Cox.
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A second official said that national envoys from the 27 member states would be briefed on the negotiations at 3 p.m.
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EU envoys from the remaining 27 member states were due to meet at 0800 GMT on Wednesday to discuss next steps.
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UN officials meet with Taliban envoys in Qatar to voice concerns about civilian casualties and draw the group into peace talks.
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Envoys from the central government in Beijing have reportedly been asking members of the election committee to vote for Mrs Lam.
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Once a year, however, a delegation of South Koreans dressed in the colourful garb of 17th-century envoys makes the crossing.
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The draft declaration will now be screened by national envoys of the remaining 27 EU states meeting in Brussels on Thursday.
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Some ordinary Venezuelans interviewed by Reuters criticized Guaido's decision to send envoys to Oslo for talks with representatives of Maduro's government.
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State Department envoys, federal agencies and government scientists remain active participants in international efforts to both research and fight climate change.
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It was also unnecessary, because American envoys were already hatching a plan to move the Kurds back from the Turkish border.
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The complaint said Trump referred "explicitly" to Giuliani and Barr "as his personal envoys on these matters" while speaking to Zelensky.
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The South Korean envoys are set to travel to the U.S. and brief American officials about the talks with North Korea.
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Das is still advising the Indian government, and was one of its envoys to the G20 summit in Argentina this month.
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Germany's top regulators met about 50 envoys from foreign banks on Monday to explain how they could move business to Frankfurt.
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A diplomat from one big country said only that the text would be discussed by national envoys in Brussels on Friday.
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His own ambassadors and envoys describe a secretary unable to control our country's foreign policy and to protect his own people.
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Mr. Kim's offer was relayed to Mr. Trump by two envoys from South Korea who had recently visited him in Pyongyang.
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Mr. Kim spent more than four hours with the South Korean envoys, including Mr. Moon's national security adviser, Chung Eui-yong.
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He has met with envoys from China and Cuba, as well as personal guests, including the American basketball star Dennis Rodman.
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Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Poland were among the countries that announced plans to force out some of Moscow's envoys.
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During the trip, the envoys became the first South Korean officials to meet with Kim since he took power in 2011.
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The note went through Swiss envoys who act as intermediaries because the United States and Iran do not have diplomatic relations.
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PAP forces would be likely to spearhead any crackdown if Beijing decides to intervene, according to foreign envoys and security analysts.
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However, Kim sent a message to South Korean envoys last week saying he wanted to achieve denuclearization during Trump's first term.
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The Global Climate Change Initiative and a number of envoys and offices created during the Obama administration are slated for elimination.
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During the trip, the envoys became the first South Korean officials to meet with Kim since he took power in 2628.
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Italy's deficit this year is expected to be at 1.9% of output, much lower than previously forecast, EU governments' envoys said.
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U.S. envoys say Pakistan has an important role to play in the Afghan peace effort, given its links to the Taliban.
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Trump's top envoys were straining to broker a last-minute compromise with Democrats and some of their own Republican Party's lawmakers.
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Regional envoys and the world's press gathered in Juba to witness the triumphant return of Machar to the heart of government.
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EU envoys will hold a last preparatory meeting ahead of the Wednesday leaders' summit in Brussels at 1800 GMT on Tuesday.
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Other more subtle forms of communication – unacknowledged direct telephone calls, messages delivered through spies, envoys and allies – have also not gone away.
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But a National Security Council reorganization has meant many foreign envoys' points of contact in the White House are also suddenly gone.
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Ouattara has acknowledged the concerns about the 2020 elections both within the business community and among foreign envoys based in the country.
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He foresaw Taiwanese envoys in Hong Kong, free to argue their island's merits "because the Communist Party cannot be toppled by criticism".
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They kill all of Takeshi's fellow Envoys, and run away to join Quellcrist Falconer (Renée Elise Goldsberry) and her team of revolutionaries.
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Envoys from Australia, Belgium, Canada and Italy joined others at the debate calling for a credible and thorough investigation into Khashoggi's death.
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Hours after the call, Qatar's state news agency said that Saudi Arabia had offered to appoint two envoys to negotiate a deal.
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On Sunday, Riyadh's Gulf allies the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain also summoned Tehran's envoys to their countries to lodge complaints.
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At any rate, that was one topic on the routine weekly agenda for the 28 EU national envoys whose meeting he attended.
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India later briefed opposition parties, which backed the mission, as well as about 25 foreign envoys, but did not disclose operational details.
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Senior U.S. envoys met with Mexican officials in Mexico on Wednesday, a day after the United States issued the new immigration guidelines.
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Tillerson notes that the department has nearly 70 special envoys, many that still exist even though the underlying issues have been resolved.
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"The reappearance of these impulses today is progressively weakening the multilateral system," Francis said, speaking to envoys from more than 180 countries.
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He said he had met envoys from France, the United States, Germany, Australia, Japan, Britain, Switzerland and the European Union this week.
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Some European diplomats have already visited Xinjiang this year, including a small group of EU diplomats and envoys from Greece and Hungary.
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After euro zone envoys back the debt report, the Commission could at any time recommend the formal opening of a disciplinary procedure.
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Trump envoys told Poland's leaders that doing business with Huawei threatens Poles' dreams of a permanent American troop presence on Polish soil.
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Only department employees and others with diplomatic status are eligible for the special passports, which help envoys facilitate travel, officials said. Mrs.
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Mr. Royce has called as witnesses the top State and Defense Department envoys for negotiating Guantánamo transfers, Lee Wolosky and Paul Lewis.
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Officials in Odinga's party had planned violence months in advance, while envoys of President Kibaki met with Mungiki to plan retaliatory attacks.
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It is not unusual for a president or secretary to deploy back-channel private envoys to assist in resolving knotty diplomatic challenges.
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Aoun told the envoys there were parts of Syria not currently at war and territory where calm has returned, a spokesman said.
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The envoys will be meeting with the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, and Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's de facto leader.
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The Post noted potential similarities between the incident in Guangzhou and so-called sonic attacks on U.S. envoys in Cuba last year.
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Trump's unexpected announcement showed he is unhappy with the progress made in recent trade talks between U.S. and Chinese envoys in Shanghai.
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He told visiting South Korean envoys last week that he wanted to denuclearize before Mr. Trump's current term ends in early 2021.
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In its early days, the Trump administration sought to eliminate most special envoys, seeing them mostly as window dressing on empty policies.
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South Korean envoys were not prepared for how "forthcoming and daring" Kim Jong-un would be as he welcomed them to Pyongyang.
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The administration will parse it carefully to assess if it aligns with the message brought to Washington by the South Korean envoys.
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As the crisis ramped up, Mr. Nasheed asked India to intervene, while Mr. Yameen sent envoys to China, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
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Mr. Moon first indicated that he wanted to send envoys to the North last week, during a phone call with President Trump.
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Canada's ambassador is leading the effort, which also includes envoys from Britain, Germany and Scandinavian countries, but not from the United States.
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In one example, Mr. Pompeo promised during his testimony in May to expeditiously appoint envoys to monitor anti-Semitism and L.G.B.T. rights.
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There was no immediate comment from China on the letter, but diplomats said China's envoys in Geneva were preparing a counter-letter.
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Presidents and kings and prime ministers and diplomats and special envoys have labored for a century in a futile search for peace.
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"I don't even know most of these ambassadors," he told reporters who asked him about the revealing text messages of American envoys.
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His position frustrated other leaders because Macron had long urged the EU to think strategically and go beyond internal squabbles, envoys said.
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The diplomats include Foreign Service personnel, envoys from other Norwegian government agencies, and military personnel at the office of the Defense Attaché.
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Since October it has kicked out three Russian envoys accused of espionage and refused a visa for an incoming Russian military attache.
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"There is a genuine fear and genuine worry that things might turn nasty," said one of 22017 envoys who signed the statements.
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Envoys from EU states are expected to endorse the new rules at a meeting on Friday, two EU sources told Reuters on Thursday.
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Pakistan said on Friday that Sharif's special envoys had arrived in Beijing to brief China on the deteriorating situation in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
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Western diplomats and US officials who have met with Trump administration envoys describe mixed messages about the future of US policy toward Russia.
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The hectic diplomacy, meanwhile, has allowed Mr Kim's envoys to pursue illicit activities, from sanctions-busting to cyber-heists at foreign financial institutions.
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In blocking Britain's bid to rejoin the GPA, Moldova cited worries that its companies might face the same hold-ups as its envoys.
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Hemedti has received of Western diplomatic envoys, several of whom say they have pressed him to ensure a rapid transition to civilian rule.
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The envoys travelled along a 2,000km route, from Hanyang, as Seoul was then known, to Edo, present-day Tokyo, via Busan and Tsushima.
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That first set of rules dealt with what governments felt was the most pressing matter: the order of precedence among ambassadors and envoys.
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"There are very few of us now who saw first-hand what the Envoys could do," Bancroft tells Kovacs when they first meet.
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This way, Envoys could "needlecast," or beam their consciousness into a far-away sleeve, more adeptly, and thus travel through the colonies quickly.
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The secretary of state's cool response came shortly after South Korea's envoys declared that North Korea wants "heart-to-heart" talks with America.
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Duterte has also made a public debate with U.N. envoys a prerequisite for any visit or investigation related to the anti-drug campaign.
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Sunday is a regular work day in Israel, but most embassies are closed, and calling in envoys on Christmas Day is highly unusual.
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The envoys also condemned what they said were Venezuela's systematic violations of human rights and denounced the Maduro government's incarceration of political figures.
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Envoys worked steadily this weekend to tackle the crisis, a surprising rupture that began last month and spawned diplomatic tensions throughout the region.
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Envoys on the North Korean nuclear issue from the United States, South Korea and Japan are due to meet in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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There are special envoys who cover North Korea, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo, but their jobs overlap substantially with those of ambassadors and Assistant Secretaries.
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The State Department confirmed Thursday that another U.S. diplomat in Cuba experienced health symptoms that have affected a number of other envoys there.
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Envoys deal through officials at State and the national security staff in the White House to insure coordination and consistency with U.S. policy.
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The envoys of all the other members of the Council were also there, looking as if they, too, were surprised by their unity.
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is due to informally brief U.N. Security Council envoys along with South Korea and Japan on Friday.
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Altogether, Detroit sent some 70 envoys from many walks of life — including this writer — to represent the city and contribute to the dialogue.
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The envoys' letter on Monday was also sent to Haley and White House national security adviser John Bolton, also a former U.N. ambassador.
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That, the United States says, is intended to limit the country's penchant for using its envoys and embassies to further its nuclear program.
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" But as to whether the Philippines was forcing envoys to leave, he said, "We are not," adding, "There's no directive to do that.
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Mr. Moon saw an opening when Mr. Kim agreed to send North Korean envoys, as well as athletes and cheerleaders, to the Olympics.
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European officials had held last-ditch talks with Iranian envoys last week in the hope of persuading them not to breach the thresholds.
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Former U.S. envoys who worked on Afghanistan warned last week that "total civil war" with "catastrophic" consequences for U.S. national security was possible.
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Last week, envoys from each side traveled to Norway to meet with government representatives for preliminary talks, according to officials from both sides.
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In March, Mr. Trump surprised many people when he accepted Kim Jong-un's invitation to meet, which was relayed through South Korean envoys.
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CBS News has reported that one of the American envoys suffered mild traumatic brain injury with likely damage to the central nervous system.
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As the three previous envoys have noted, the office has been an important vehicle to ensure conversation on and attention to anti-Semitism.
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Moon sent envoys to the United States, China, Japan and the European Union this week in what the government calls "pre-emptive diplomacy".
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All around spread the sands of solitude, which through the centuries have served as a passage for armies, merchants, monks, envoys and explorers.
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Envoys to Beijing are scholars of realism, their fine minds applied to a delicate task: managing profitable relations with a deep-pocketed, unapologetic dictatorship.
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When African and Asian envoys doubt China's sincerity, the Zhou of the opera recalls past humiliations inflicted by colonial powers on their two continents.
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Now, still volunteer-run, but more smoothly than ever, the festival has matured into what might be among the city's best events and envoys.
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The 15-member council must agree by consensus on the appointment of special envoys and members had until Tuesday evening to raise any objections.
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Successful campaigns also depend on lobbying envoys at the United Nations, where officials and diplomats said Canada's Ambassador Marc-Andre Blanchard was working effectively.
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Essentially, Envoys are an elite group of soldiers who can needlecast (or project their minds into sleeves, or bodies) repeatedly, without experiencing mental deterioration.
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Separately, envoys from South Korea, Japan and the US have been meeting in Tokyo to discuss North Korea's refusal to abandon its nuclear program.
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The mission to protect vital Middle East oil shipping lanes could be run by a joint Franco-British command, one of the envoys said.
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Moon has sent envoys to the United States, China, Japan and the European Union this week in what the government calls "pre-emptive diplomacy".
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NATO envoys had expressed concern about Russia's so-called snap exercises, where thousands of Russian troops carry out war games without any prior warning.
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Several EU states in a meeting of national envoys this week in Brussels called for more time to assess listed jurisdictions, the officials said.
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At La Capelle, flashes lit up the night as the envoys were photographed by waiting press and newsreel cameramen, then transferred to French cars.
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That prompted the broadest Western expulsion of Russian diplomats since the Cold War, with most EU countries kicking out one or more Russian envoys.
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Since Iran's 1979 revolution, six U.S. Presidents have traded arms, built back channels, and dispatched secret envoys in an effort to heal the rupture.
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US President Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday that he had scrapped meetings at Camp David between himself, Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani, and Taliban envoys.
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Nor do Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, which share Israel's concerns about Iranian actions in the region and also sent envoys to Warsaw.
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In Ukraine, the supply of special envoys seems to have exceeded the demand, made worse by an inability to follow any rules or procedures.
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The State Department has since continued to send delegations to international climate summits, where envoys have been perceived by their foreign counterparts as constructive.
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Although the Reagans may have come to Washington as envoys from nouveau riche California, by the end they were pillars of manners and dignity.
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Taliban envoys were expected to join the discussions after being pressured by the Pakistani government, which provides the insurgents with sanctuaries inside its territory.
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Envoys, including from heavyweights Germany and France, objected last week to a suggestion from Barnier that the EU should start working on transition plans.
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Separately, Western envoys said on Wednesday that Britain, France and Germany were nearing a package that seeks to persuade Trump to save the pact.
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The measure expands the list of people subject to asset freezes and travel bans; they include some envoys to countries like Egypt and Sudan.
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The pope's envoys heard from additional victims and, before leaving, appointed a group of lay people and clergy to continue receiving reports of abuse.
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R.C. Hammond, a top official, routinely bemoaned that there were more than 60 such envoys, making the department's organizational chart look like a starburst.
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And the three American envoys quietly returned to El Salvador, Panama and the Dominican Republic with no new tough messages or punishments from Washington.
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The new constitution authorizes Kim to promulgate legislative ordinances and major decrees and decisions andappoint or recall diplomatic envoys to foreign countries, KCNA said.
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While the Trump administration continues to be distracted by the Russia scandal, it demonstrates that it is content sending inexperienced envoys to the region.
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In just one example, the department has more than 60 special envoys and offices dealing with such issues as climate change and human trafficking.
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Tusk, who was elected EPP president late last year, met earlier this month with three envoys who had visited Hungary to assess the situation.
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Three of the envoys said the contingent of Chinese military personnel in Hong Kong had more than doubled in size since the protests began.
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Legend has it that envoys bearing entreaties from the son, who ruled as King Taejong, were ordered slain before they could deliver their messages.
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Some envoys conceded, however, that the EU would have to cough up more money for Turkey to keep a lid on migrants reaching Europe.
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The Afghan government has not been a part of the negotiations because of Taliban reluctance to talk to President Ashraf Ghani or his envoys.
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Senior Sudanese government officials watched as envoys of Kiir's administration and the rebels led by Machar signed the security arrangements agreement at Sudan's defense ministry.
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The hard-won plan follows tense negotiations involving envoys from 173 countries at the organization's headquarters on the banks of the Thames River in London.
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NATO Merkel should be pleased that some of Trump's envoys have expressed a commitment to NATO somewhat more accepting than his sentiments during the campaign.
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Mr Guterres and the envoys of just about all governments represented at the UN are pinning some hope on Nikki Haley, Mr Trump's ambassador there.
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Indeed, NATO envoys will hold a further formal meeting with Russia next week in what many are suggesting could be a sign of thawing tensions.
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He nevertheless held out the prospect of US envoys at some point sitting down with Pyongyang's isolated regime and avoiding the escalating threat of war.
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European leaders — and Obama Administration envoys — were reduced to highlighting the lowest common denominators of shared history and ideals in giving assurances of continued cooperation.
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Foreign governments are already trying to curry favor with the Trump administration by staying in Trump's hotels and appointing his business partners as diplomatic envoys.
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And he earlier told American and South Korean envoys that his country was willing to give up nuclear arms if it received the right incentives.
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In fact, legislation passed by the Senate last year would require the State Department to report on the number of special envoys, representatives, and others.
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Foreign envoys estimate the strength of the Hong Kong garrison at between 8,000 and 10,000, with troops in bases on both sides of the border.
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" The State Department's website still lists Kammen as one of seven science envoys, and notes that his focus area is "building capacity for renewable energies.
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"Right now, it may either be a case of the two leaders directing their envoys to get together and try to make progress," he continued.
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At this year's festival, devotees clutching wads of bills queued under a gazebo to meet one of the nats' flesh-and-blood envoys, a medium.
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Setting up a direct hot line between Washington and Pyongyang and exchanging high-level envoys -- either publicly or privately -- are some useful measures to take.
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Britain's National Security Adviser Mark Sedwill told NATO envoys at a special meeting of the alliance's governing North Atlantic Council that Russia was to blame.
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The U.S. has had special envoys roles in the past for talks with North Korea and to deal with human rights issues in the country.
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The South Korean envoys have hoped to persuade Mr. Kim to start a dialogue with the United States on ending the North's nuclear weapons program.
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Some advisers in the room with Mr. Trump and the South Korean envoys — including Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and the national security adviser, Lt. Gen.
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Before Trump's latest broadside, May's spokesman said Darroch would stay in place and that envoys had to feel confident they could share their frank assessments.
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Other Western diplomats, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that those envoys, too, came away with the impression that he could not speak freely.
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And as Senate Democrats' irritation grows with envoys who are ensconced abroad, an already slow confirmation process for new nominees could become even more sclerotic.
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The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that he would be surprised if the envoys personally delivered a letter to the president.
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The new constitution authorises Kim to promulgate legislative ordinances and major decrees and decisions and appoint or recall diplomatic envoys to foreign countries, KCNA said.
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In a stunning announcement on Thursday night, South Korean envoys said that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wants to meet with President Donald Trump.
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Through the summer, a series of envoys, including the United States secretary of state, Rex W. Tillerson, have traveled to the Persian Gulf for talks.
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If top political appointees or non-governmental envoys such as Rudy Giuliani advanced personal political agendas, that would compound the harm to American credibility abroad.
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But since Mr. Guaidó doesn't control the country — Ms. Zubillaga can't even get her Venezuelan passport renewed — his envoys operate in a diplomatic gray zone.
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The envoys declined to say how exactly they determined that the recent troop movement was a reinforcement or how they arrived at their troop estimates.
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And finally, it's critical over time that envoys immerse themselves in the details not just of the negotiations, but also in regional events and developments.
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The envoys have been instructed to emphasize areas of shared cooperation, which transcend any comments that may have been made by the President, officials said.
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Lawmakers and their aides are trying to establish what role certain U.S. envoys played in connecting Giuliani with Ukrainian officials, and whether Pompeo signed off.
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Many of the workers who have been reassigned under the Trump administration previously worked in the offices of special envoys created during the Obama administration.
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Citing U.S. officials, the Washington Post reported on Saturday that the meeting was canceled after El Salvador and Guatemala said they would not send envoys.
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While foreign envoys of all nations are often candid in classified dispatches back home, there are periodic episodes when such assessments leak, causing great political embarrassment.
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Iran summoned the envoys of the Netherlands, Denmark and Britain on Saturday night over the shooting, accusing them of harboring Iranian opposition groups in their countries.
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Mahinda Samarasinghe, a Rajapaksa supporter, criticized the Speaker for inviting foreign envoys to witness the proceedings, saying he was trying to destroy the perception of parliament.
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But neither Maduro nor Guaidó seem prepared to concede much; meetings between government officials and opposition envoys held in Norway last Wednesday ended without an agreement.
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Chinese mainland and Hong Kong stocks slipped 22-25 percent after Chinese and U.S. envoys sparred over "technology transfer" at the World Trade Organization on Monday.
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Successive U.N. envoys have failed to stop Syria's eight-year war, which has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and led to an exodus of refugees.
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For eight years an "Asia rebalance" has seen generals, diplomats and trade envoys commanded by Barack Obama, devote more energy and time to the Asia-Pacific.
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It also counts positions such as trade envoys for exotic emerging markets, which are often dished out to loyal backbenchers, despite supposedly being cross-party positions.
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Western leaders should show solidarity with the people of Turkey by attending or at least sending their envoys to the protests in the streets of Turkey.
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U.S. and Israeli military envoys were among the guests attending the event, while Israeli jets took part in the fly by, Croatia&aposs defense ministry said.
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Her tweet comes as foreign envoys and officials in overseas capitals said they are increasingly looking for help in understanding the Trump administration's positions and actions.
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For the third time, America's religious-freedom envoys, who travel to such unfree places as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and China, have been denied entry to India.
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The unscheduled meeting was not because of any breakthrough in talks with Britain, the diplomats said, but to update the envoys on the state of affairs.
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"Who's counting?" he said airily when asked about the career milestone during a conference hosted by the sympathetic Israel Hayom newspaper and attended by U.S. envoys.
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The U.S. is watching the poll warily and is already expected to send envoys to both Beijing and Taiwan after the election to smooth things over.
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Envoys from Moscow and Kiev agreed at talks in early October on an election schedule for the separatist region and on legislation giving it special status.
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Cruz told Cooper on Saturday that she works out of a building that has two FEMA envoys and she feels as though there is sufficient cooperation.
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However, after talking with May and Brexit Secretary David Davis in London on Monday, Barnier told EU envoys that a number of issues were proving difficult.
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The order could leave the United States without Senate-confirmed envoys for months in critical nations like Germany, Canada and Britain, the New York Times reported.
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Iranian diplomats, like the envoys of North Korea, Syria and Cuba, are already confined to a radius of 25 miles from Columbus Circle in Midtown Manhattan.
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After the two-day visit to North Korea, the special envoys will travel to the United States to brief officials there on their discussions in Pyongyang.
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While they said they were carrying additional messages from North Korea, an American official said that the envoys did not deliver a letter from Mr. Kim.
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" — A statement from South Korean envoys who met with Mr. Kim "Kim Jong Un talked about denuclearization with the South Korean Representatives, not just a freeze.
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Envoys from Britain, France, Germany and policy officials representing the European Union helped negotiate the original deal, in part to improve security for their respective countries.
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang last month called for the pact to be sealed by 2021, a timetable some envoys and analysts are skeptical can be reached.
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When Quell is revived, she is still the most agile fighter in the galaxy, as the former leader of the anti-imperialist freedom fighters the envoys.
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In the months after, North Korean diplomats repeatedly accused US negotiators of being inflexible, while Washington's envoys have asked Pyongyang to come back to the table.
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These envoys and offices operate outside the usual chain of command, and proposals to trim those back are widely popular and part of Mr. Tillerson's plan.
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Britain and some two dozen other countries have expelled more than 150 Russian diplomats, and Russia has ousted a similar number of envoys from those countries.
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While Reuters was unable to determine the size of the PAP contingent, envoys say the bulk of the troops in Hong Kong are from the PLA.
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Dozens of American envoys will leave office next week, but few of them are as prominent as Ms. Kennedy, the daughter of President John F. Kennedy.
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During a two hour meeting with Security Council envoys in Myanmar's capital Naypyitaw last week, military chief Min Aung Hlaing vowed "harsh action" over sexual violence.
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The dueling diplomacy is critical in Venezuela's political rivalry, as the envoys are responsible for maintaining support for their respective presidents from their host country's leaders.
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Ghani's government has been shut out of the peace talks between Taliban negotiators and U.S. envoys, with the hardline Islamist movement branding it a U.S. puppet.
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One was a visit in September in his capacity as a senator, similar to meetings with envoys from Britain, China, Germany and other nations, the department said.
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For Trump's global envoys explaining the new US leader has meant buffing the rougher edges of his pronouncements and turning them into cogent expressions of US policy.
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Kazakhstan U.N. Ambassador Kairat Umarov, Security Council president for January, also suggested the evidence shown to council envoys in Washington may not be enough for U.N. action.
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After successful cooperation at the Olympics, Moon sent special envoys to North Korea who later traveled to Washington with Kim&aposs proposal for a summit with Trump.
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Before the invasion of Iraq in 2003 King Abdullah received envoys from both Saddam Hussein and President George W. Bush, auctioning his backing to the highest bidder.
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There is also talk of plans for a second, more substantive round of negotiations between American and Taliban envoys, following initial contacts in Qatar earlier this year.
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Mr Trump's decision to pull out America's 2,000-odd troops from eastern Syria astonished friend and foe alike, none more than his own envoys to the region.
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And while the Justice Department expected Trump envoys on Wednesday, officials from the transition team are now expected to meet with officials at that department on Monday.
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The U.S. envoys did not have any meetings scheduled with the Palestinians, who suspended ties with Trump in December over his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
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But after years and years of haggling between official and semi-official envoys, it has become clear that the concessions sought by North Korea go too far.
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The Venezuelan government and opposition have sent envoys to Norway in an effort to end the crisis engulfing the country, officials confirmed to AP and Reuters Wednesday.
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The document will be discussed by EU states' economic envoys on Tuesday when they meet to prepare the monthly gathering of EU finance ministers, EU officials said.
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In their letter, the 37 envoys commended China's efforts in "protecting human and promoting human rights through development," echoing a common refrain used in Chinese state media.
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U.S. envoys have met with their North Korean counterparts during almost every year in the last decade, yet failed to induce Pyongyang to return to disarmament talks.
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Among the group of people in the photos is a priest, reported earlier to be brokering the talks for a transitional government, and two South African envoys.
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Lebanese President Michel Aoun, who dispatched envoys to urge foreign states to secure Hariri's return from Saudi Arabia, has until he returns to present it in person.
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Nicholson's predecessors and former U.S. envoys to Afghanistan urged Obama earlier this month to keep troop levels steady at near 10,000 through the remainder of his term.
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When Mr. Moon's special envoys visited Mr. Kim in Pyongyang earlier this month, he told them that he was willing to denuclearize within Mr. Trump's first term.
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The two Koreas have also exchanged high-level envoys in recent weeks, including Mr. Kim's sister, Kim Yo-jong, who met Mr. Moon in Seoul last month.
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South Korean envoys who met with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, conveyed his position in a statement after a two-day visit to North Korea.
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But Washington and Pyongyang remained wide apart over the terms for starting such a dialogue, a gap that South Korea's envoys will seek to narrow this week.
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But it noted that he has expressed skepticism about the proliferation of special envoys during the Obama administration, saying they could strip expertise from the regional bureaus.
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Other Western envoys in Beijing have been lectured that their support for Hong Kong must be part of a concerted push by American hawks to hurt China.
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Other parties to the deal are adamant that it won't happen, French Ambassador Gerard Araud told the audience at the Atlantic Council event where the envoys spoke.
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In a unique twist of history, the current president of Iran – Hassan Rouhani – led the group of moderates that met with Reagan's envoys nearly 40 years ago.
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A month on, Asian and Western envoys in Hong Kong say they are certain the late-August deployment was not a rotation at all, but a reinforcement.
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On Pro Basketball On stage, perched between envoys from the rival cities Philadelphia and Boston, Magic Johnson flashed the smile that illuminated basketball arenas across the 276s.
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He also extended an invitation to Trump via South Korean envoys, potentially setting up the first ever meeting of a sitting US President and North Korean leader.
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EU governments' envoys also supported dialogue, with the aim of averting the procedure if Rome makes sufficient commitments to improve its public finances, the two officials said.
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European envoys say they already sensed a greater urgency from China in 2017 to find like-minded countries willing to stand up against Trump's "America First" policies.
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This month's three-way summit of leaders with China and Japan will now not take place; South Korean envoys should quickly reassure both that nothing fundamental has changed.
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Russia summoned senior envoys on Friday from most of the other countries that have expelled Russian diplomats and told them it was expelling a commensurate number of theirs.
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On March 8, South Korean envoys who had just met with Kim Jong Un relayed a message to Trump: The North Korean leader wanted to meet with him.
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Their plan to pose as Chinese envoys very predictably fails, especially since the Shogun appears to be pulling a Bernard and leaking cortical fluid out of his ears.
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A group of envoys, including the U.S., German and British representatives in Kiev, said they were "deeply disappointed" by the resignation, which also sent Ukrainian sovereign bonds tumbling.
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But these were heavily armed peace envoys, warily visiting a China whose emergence as an ocean-going nation is shaking Asia, and may one day change the world.
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As Britain pointed the finger at the Kremlin and expelled Russian diplomats, Trump rallied behind her and kicked out 60 Russian envoys from the United States in solidarity.
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Emirates had been expected to announce deals worth $30 billion shared between Airbus and Boeing, whose envoys unusually found themselves rubbing elbows while waiting for deals to pop.
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The talks have been frozen since 2014, and with no negotiations in sight, envoys from around 70 countries and organizations met in Rome to discuss the funding crisis.
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Western powers still formally support the U.N.-backed government in Tripoli, and their envoys say they have told Haftar they will not support a military solution in Libya.
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Trump brings demands for the United States' closest ally in Europe, including calls by his envoys for a tougher British stance towards telecoms giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd .
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Past science envoys include Jane Lubchenco, the former head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and Ahmed Zewail, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency, citing Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag, said the envoys were being called back, the report was confirmed by the Turkish embassy in Washington.
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He tells his Middle East envoys, "If you guys can get this done you're going to be the greatest negotiators in history," said a senior White House official.
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BEIJING (AP) — US and Chinese envoys will meet in early October for talks aimed at ending a tariff war, later than initially planned, China's Commerce Ministry announced Thursday.
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Early this month, the State and Defense Department envoys for closing Guantánamo, Lee Wolosky and Paul Lewis, and the chief prosecutor of the military commissions system, Brig. Gen.
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The peacekeeping division was warned of the danger by the special envoys responsible for those lists, as well as by a senior official from the human rights office.
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Nonetheless, tensions in the Belgian capital city have been particularly high this week, not least because many envoys were unsure about America's ongoing commitment to its Western allies.
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They have enlisted Praetorians, gun-toting imperial fighters to weed out any defectors — and Takeshi and the rest of the rebel-fighting Envoys certainly fall under that umbrella.
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The South Korean envoys then visited the White House on March 9, delivering what they said was Mr. Kim's offer to discuss denuclearizing his country with President Trump.
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The North's leader, Kim Jong-un, said he would suspend all nuclear and missile tests if talks took place, according to South Korean envoys who met with him.
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To that end, Mr. López Obrador and his envoys have for months been pressing an ambitious development plan for Central America and have sought the American government's collaboration.
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In the interim, envoys from foreign powers, including the United States, have met with the presumed winners and congratulated Iraq for what many described as a democratic success.
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European envoys say they have sensed a greater urgency from China since last year to find like-minded countries willing to stand up against Trump's "America First" policies.
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Mr. Guaidó — Ms. Zubillaga calls him President Guaidó — has 38 envoys mostly to countries in Europe and Latin America, often in places where Mr. Maduro has ambassadors, too.
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His envoys met with the North Korean leader in Pyongyang in March, and went to Washington soon afterward to tell Mr. Trump that Mr. Kim wanted to talk.
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Prior to the North Korean visit to the Swedish capital, South Korean envoys had traveled to Beijing, Tokyo and Moscow to quell regional jitters over the proposed talks.
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Reuters reporters have seen these flying frequently around Hong Kong and its hinterlands, the New Territories, an observation confirmed by foreign envoys and security analysts monitoring developments here.
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The lunch guests will include envoys from Russia and China, the countries arguably most critical to the Trump administration as it faces tests over Syria and North Korea.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lashed out at Security Council countries by curbing diplomatic contacts, recalling envoys, cutting off aid and summoning the American ambassador for a scolding.
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During a policy meeting in that room in 1991 between NATO envoys and Moscow, the Soviet ambassador interrupted proceedings to take a phone call from President Boris Yeltsin.
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He argued that pulling together overlapping missions of the envoys and other offices under one roof and cleaning house will help the department achieve its initiatives more efficiently.
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One possible summit location, a cavernous, newly built convention center, was opposed because Kim's envoys deemed it difficult to secure, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.
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Secretaries, other senior officials, ambassadors and envoys all need to know what the policy is to explain it to others and bring predictability to our nation's foreign engagements.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un discussed ways to ease tensions on the peninsula with visiting South Korean envoys, the state KCNA news agency reported on March 6.
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"There needs to be a much clearer, sharper messaging on the choice the UK faces," one senior diplomat told fellow national envoys after talks broke down on Sunday.
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his British and German counterparts have spoken against the bill, while 11 European Union envoys met Carrie Lam to formally protest.
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Stoltenberg hopes to convene another NATO-Russia Council - the forum bringing together Grushko, Russia's top diplomat to the alliance, and NATO envoys - in the next few weeks, diplomats say.
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After two days of talks with Afghan officials at a posh hotel in Qatar, envoys of the Taliban promised that their insurgents would not attack schools, hospitals or bazaars.
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World powers have called for calm and sent in envoys for talks to try to lower the temperature of a dispute that has pushed up the price of oil.
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EU envoys in Brussels will get an update on Friday and then ministers from the 27 states staying in the bloc after Brexit are due to meet on Monday.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's leftist government prepared to release some 80 jailed anti-government activists on Saturday, and threatened to expel envoys from Canada and Brazil after criticism over rights.
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Negotiations to encourage China to join the Paris climate accords took months of envoys flying back and forth before Beijing finally set real emissions targets – and stuck to them.
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Trump has praised a more radical Brexit-supporting potential successor to Prime Minister Theresa May, and his envoys have urged a tougher British stance towards Chinese telecoms giant Huawei.
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Others include the appointment of 44 new envoys, the ratification of 64 international treaties and a renewed pursuit of business interests abroad, neglected during the political paralysis at home.
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In a separate statement, NATO envoys called on Syria, Russia and Iran to allow "rapid, sustained and unhindered humanitarian access" to areas targeted in Syria's seven-year-old war.
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"The past three consecutive years has seen not a single terrorist attack in Xinjiang and people there enjoy a stronger sense of happiness, fulfillment and security," the envoys said.
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Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates recalled their envoys in a show of solidarity with Riyadh, but Oman only expressed regret over the attack, highlighting its better ties.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU negotiators told national envoys on Friday that they need more work yet to close a Brexit deal with Britain, diplomats familiar with the briefing told Reuters.
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That came in as the two sides' envoys sat in a room in Brussels trying to find a solution to their disagreement over the European version of the GPS.
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Before the new rules, Iranian diplomats - like envoys of North Korea, Syria and Cuba - were already confined to a radius of 25 miles from Columbus Circle in Midtown Manhattan.
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National envoys will discuss it in Brussels in mid-May, hand on to interior ministers meeting early next month and then to the leader's summit on June 28-29.
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Germany, one of seven EU member states to have an embassy in Pyongyang, also wants better monitoring of the "non-diplomatic" activities of North Korean envoys, EU diplomats said.
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Senior envoys of South Korea, Japan and the United State on the North Korea nuclear programme will soon meet to discuss their coordinated response, the South's foreign ministry said.
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The best example, they said, was the sixty-six special envoys and representatives, created at various times by Congress and the White House—essentially, senior diplomats given ambassadorial rank.
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Before the new rules, Iranian diplomats — like envoys of North Korea, Syria and Cuba — were already confined to a radius of 25 miles from Columbus Circle in Midtown Manhattan.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Syrian activists and Western envoys said on Thursday Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and others should face justice for war crimes as part of any peace process.
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Special envoys would take turns coming here, and we would regularly go to the frontline on the Shomali Plain, where the Northern Alliance was holding out against the Taliban.
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Special Envoys are a useful foreign policy tool when an international problem requires high level attention and is beyond the scope of the U.S. Ambassador in an affected nation.
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When Raúl Castro chose his son, Alejandro, to serve as his intermediary with the Obama Administration envoys, Zúñiga felt assured that the Cubans were serious about negotiating an agreement.
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Foreign ministry officials briefed envoys of several countries on the changes to the state's administrative status, saying they were aimed at promoting good governance, social justice and economic development.
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Nor do Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, which also sent envoys to Warsaw and which share Israel's concerns about Iran's nuclear program and involvement in several regional flashpoints.
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Barnier's deputy Sabine Weyand would brief EU national envoys in Brussels, Schinas said, as Prime Minister Theresa May consults her cabinet from 1400 GMT on the deal in London.
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It will be discussed by national envoys to Brussels at 1400 GMT on Friday and is due to be approved by EU development ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean envoys met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and handed him a letter from President Moon Jae-in, the South's presidential office said on Wednesday.
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People familiar with the discussions, which ended before any word from London on whether the fractious government would accept the draft, said envoys had not themselves seen the text.
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The Pentagon chief and others saved the final agreement only because they shielded it from the president and urged envoys to complete it before Mr. Trump arrived in Brussels.
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President Trump met face to face for the first time with top envoys of Moscow on Wednesday, receiving the foreign minister and the Russian ambassador in the Oval Office.
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The State Office of the Coordinator of Cyber Issues (S/CCI) was one of several envoys and offices Tillerson told Congress in August he planned to close or consolidate.
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According to multiple reports on Sunday, South Korean envoys will travel to North Korea this week for discussions on easing nuclear tensions and restarting talks between Pyongyang and Washington.
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Having inherited more than 70 envoys and special representative offices when he took offices, some of which he claimed had outlived their purpose, Tillerson eliminated some special envoy positions.
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"This is a real threat to the world, whether we want to talk about it or not," Mr. Trump said at a White House meeting of Security Council envoys.
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The announcement of Trump's on-the-spot acceptance of Kim's invitation came hours after South Korean envoys met with key national security officials in the Oval Office on Thursday.
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Maduro's envoys talked with the Venezuelan opposition in negotiations brokered by Norway last year, and during several previous attempts to find a way out of the country's political crisis.
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Trump administration officials are scrutinizing the addition of special envoys during Obama's tenure, the Journal reported, though reducing their number would not cover the entirety of the proposed cuts.
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Neither Khan's office nor the foreign ministry had any immediate comment on the letter, which was signed by envoys from the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, Norway and Switzerland.
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"I believe that the Department will be able to better execute its mission by integrating certain envoys and special representative offices within the regional and functional bureaus," Tillerson wrote.
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And sending the CEO was a recognition that other Facebook envoys to Washington haven't been able to convince many in the capital that the company's on the right track.
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"Even though our special envoys confirmed his denuclearisation will, it is entirely different if the two leaders confirm it directly among themselves and put that into text," Im said.
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On Saturday, the United Nations called for reason from all sides after a meeting of envoys from 2003 EU states in Brussels a day earlier failed to break the deadlock.
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South Korean envoys spent two days in Pyongyang earlier this week and left with a message for Washington: Kim was ready to talk about possibly giving up his nuclear program.
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Lebanese President Michel Aoun told international envoys he wanted to find ways for them to return safely but would not force people back to places where they could face persecution.
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When Chinese envoys grouse about a world trade and financial architecture designed in Western capitals after the second world war, they have been reminded how globalisation has powered China's growth.
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Mr Trump's announcement that he planned to pull out America's 20113,000-odd troops from eastern Syria astonished friend and foe alike, none more than his own envoys to the region.
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Kiir publicly consented to the protection force, authorized by the U.N. Security Council last month, after meeting with council envoys, led by U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power, on Sunday in Juba.
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In a classified military dispatch seen by Reuters, 149 military envoys posted to the alliance's headquarters and command centers in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Britain were ordered on Sept.
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As the LNA's profile has risen, Western envoys have begun to recognize its gains, while publicly insisting that the U.N. agreement is the only way to bring stability to Libya.
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They say he ignored top-level talks between EU envoys and U.S. trade and State Department officials this year to avoid metal tariffs and keep Washington in the Iran deal.
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Foreign ministry officials later briefed envoys of several countries on the changes to the state's administrative status, saying they were aimed at promoting good governance, social justice and economic development.
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BRUSSELS, April 14 (Reuters) - The United States, France and Britain will brief NATO envoys on Saturday about their coordinated air strikes on Syrian government targets overnight, an alliance official said.
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The Trump administration still has yet to name several deputy secretaries for Cabinet agencies -- higher priority appointments -- and the vetting process for new envoys can take up to three months.
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On Saturday night in a Twitter posting, Netanyahu expressed appreciation for behind-the-scenes efforts by U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt to help end the crisis with Jordan.
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Chinese envoys occasionally visit Israel and the Palestinian Territories, though China has traditionally played little role in Middle East conflicts or diplomacy, despite its reliance on the region for oil.
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But China has been trying to get more involved, including sending envoys to help push for a diplomatic resolution to the violence there and hosting Syrian government and opposition figures.
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The British cabinet will convene at 1400 GMT in London on Wednesday, the same time that the national envoys of the 27 other EU member states get together in Brussels.
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Mullah Mansour was more interested in sending militants to Kabul than envoys to the talks (in April over 60 Afghans were killed in one attack alone in the Afghan capital).
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The special envoys for the Great Lakes region of Africa and Democratic Republic of Congo, and for Sudan and South Sudan will be subsumed under the Bureau of African Affairs.
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Chinese envoys occasionally visit Israel and the Palestinian Territories, though China has traditionally played little role in Middle East conflicts or diplomacy despite its reliance on the region for oil.
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The envoys are the chargé d'affaires of the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C., and the deputy consul general of the Venezuelan consulate in Houston, the department said in a statement.
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And in meetings on the sidelines, Trump administration envoys have been explicit in the White House's plans to withdraw from the Paris deal unless more favorable terms can be struck.
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EU envoys to Brussels were due to act on that commitment on Wednesday by formally agreeing to open negotiations on financial and budget issues with Ankara, diplomatic sources told Reuters.
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As I said before there are so many tracks we could talk about but Envoys "Dark Manoeuvres " must be mentioned as it is still a staple in DJ sets now.
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China's counter-terrorism and de-radicalisation efforts in Xinjiang should be applauded for creating a new method of tackling the problem, a senior Chinese diplomat told foreign envoys last week.
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It turns out Donald Trump is doing precisely what he said he would do with little or no regard for the consequences, while his envoys have been telling everyone otherwise.
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But he said he would start taking phased actions toward that goal only if Washington reciprocated with "simultaneous" measures to prove that it was no longer hostile, the envoys said.
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This month he sent envoys to North Korea, who reported that Mr. Kim wanted denuclearization before the end of Mr. Trump's current term, if he were offered the right incentives.
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South Korean envoys appealed for their own exemption when they visited the White House this week to brief Mr. Trump on their meeting with North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un.
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Iranian envoys said the warnings from Washington had scared away investors who had been expected to bolster the country's economy after the deal was negotiated in 2015, according to participants.
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In photos released by state-run news outlets in Zimbabwe, Mr. Mugabe can be seen meeting with South African envoys and Constantine Chiwenga, general commander of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces.
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Condemnations of Mr. Abbas poured in from Middle East envoys of the United States and the United Nations, from Israel, the European Union and from countries including Germany and Britain.
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In the end, he did not bend to Mr. Trump's envoys' request that he promise in writing to conduct the investigations of Joe and Hunter Biden and the 2016 campaign.
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When Mr. Kim met with South Korean envoys in March, he agreed to meet with Mr. Moon despite a round of joint military drills that were about to be conducted.
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The reclusive communist state has recently told envoys from its archenemy South Korea that it is willing to take up negotiations with the United States over the North's nuclear weapons.
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The ministry said it is summoning the envoys of Western states who took "unfriendly steps" towards Russia over the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
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The envoys were 90 minutes into a seminar on how to investigate allegations of sex abuse committed by fellow clergy following revelations that hundreds of children might have been molested.
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Some of the tablets "record food allocations for royal envoys and other officials, and specify their missions, which include inspecting work on a canal, improving the &aposroyal road,&apos" Frahm added.
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The envoys weighed how governments might respond to a Commission recommendation to facilitate travel for Turks at the same time as they review similar pending recommendations made for Georgians and Ukrainians.
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Cut off from Europe's common market, Elizabeth dispatched hundreds of envoys with presents to negotiate free-trade agreements with Suleiman the Magnificent, and gain access to the silk road in Aleppo.
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"It's close but everything is hanging by a thread because of the political situation in the UK," one diplomat familiar with an EU briefing of national envoys on Friday told Reuters.
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"The Eurogroup will discuss the compatibility with EU rules of the Italian plan to rescue banks," an EU official said after a meeting of euro zone envoys in Brussels on Thursday.
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At an emergency summit of the UN Security Council on Sunday, the British, U.S. and French envoys walked out of meeting when Syria's ambassador was called to speak, signaling their anger.
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The Russian foreign ministry has invited foreign envoys to a meeting on March 21 with arms control experts to discuss the affair, the state-run TASS news agency reported on Tuesday.
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It is common practice for the United States to appoint celebrities or campaign donors as envoys, for example when Richard Nixon appointed Shirley Temple as his envoy to Ghana in 1974.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union envoys on Wednesday agreed to prolong for another six months the bloc's blacklist of people and entities involved in Russia's detribalization of Ukraine, diplomats and officials said.
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In a meeting on Wednesday, EU envoys are set to agree on the new list which will then be formally adopted by EU finance ministers in a meeting on March 12.
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"It reminds me of the events in 2003 when U.S. envoys to the Security Council were demonstrating what they said were chemical weapons found in Iraq," Putin told reporters on Tuesday.
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"It reminds me of the events in 2003 when US envoys to the [UN] Security Council were demonstrating what they said were chemical weapons found in Iraq," the Russian President said.
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Foreign envoys tell a story of watching Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with his head in his hands after reading a presidential tweet that undermined the very meeting he was in.
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The two envoys have asked leaders in the region to outline for each issue an outcome that they could live with and that the other side could accept, the official said.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union envoys are set to agree a new mechanism to punish chemical weapons' attacks by targeting people blamed for using banned munitions regardless of their nationality, diplomats said.
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Before the new rules, Iranian diplomats - like envoys of North Korea, Syria and Cuba - were already confined to a radius of 25 miles (40 km) from Columbus Circle in Midtown Manhattan.
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After briefing Security Council envoys last week, Pompeo and U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley warned against loosening sanctions on Pyongyang after Russia and China suggested the council could discuss such a move.
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Diplomats said a meeting of national envoys indicated that most governments would prefer Britain out by mid-May or oblige it to hold its own EU parliamentary election on May 23.
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Diplomats said a meeting of national envoys indicated that most governments would prefer Britain out by mid-May or oblige it to hold its own European Parliament election on May 23.
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A month ago U.N. envoy Ghassan Salame, the latest in a series of Libya envoys since 2011, announced a one-year "action plan" for a transition toward presidential and parliamentary elections.
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Our American envoys were no help: The U.S. embassy in Cairo was a citadel, drawbridges up, and the ambassador's rare press briefings were so icy and anodyne that we stopped going.
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"If we do a great job, I care much less about the budget because you're talking about peanuts compared to the important work you're doing," Trump told the 2132 council envoys.
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The official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss State Department business, said that of 66 positions outlined in the letter, Tillerson will keep 30 envoys and representatives with their title.
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Envoys from the U.N. Security Council are spending four days in Bangladesh and Myanmar "to see firsthand the aftermath" of what is being labeled ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, Reuters reports.
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There is also the $2 million that an Al Thani family member paid to the Greek shoe salesman, and the bribes the Qatari envoys supposedly paid during their week in Baghdad.
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After the two-day visit to North Korea, the special envoys will travel to the United States to brief officials on their discussions in Pyongyang, South Korea's presidential Blue House said.
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The envoys who visited the White House to brief Mr. Trump on their meeting with Mr. Kim made personal appeals to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and the national security adviser, Gen.
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France and Germany sent envoys to Kosovo's capital, Pristina, in what appeared to have been an effort to step up pressure on leaders to refrain from attempts to amend the Constitution.
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Still, at the talks in Astana, Mr. Putin's envoys plan to propose that Russia, Iran and Turkey act as buffer forces separating government and rebel forces in some areas of Syria.
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Seven envoys who spoke to Reuters said they didnt detect any significant number of existing forces in Hong Kong returning to the mainland in the days before or after the announcement.
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" Top U.S., South Korean and Japanese envoys are due to meet on Tuesday, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said, to "to maximize pressure on the North, and to ensure China's constructive role.
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After the visit to North Korea, the envoys will travel to the United States to brief officials, and Seoul said it would also coordinate closely with officials in Japan and China.
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The former ambassador described how, during a get-to-know-you gathering of U.S. envoys last year, a political appointee was asked when he was going to return to his post.
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In meetings with senior EU envoys in Ankara on Wednesday, Turkish officials voiced frustration at the pace of payments, saying the EU was not keeping up its end of the bargain.
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The 11 ex-envoys all closely followed Mr. Trump's announcement on Wednesday, in which he also set in motion a plan to move the American Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.
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At the United Nations, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo led the charge to build support for Mr. Guaidó at a Security Council meeting dominated by sparring between American and Russian envoys.
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To the shock of Mr. Trump's own advisers, he accepted on the spot when envoys sent by South Korea's president, Moon Jae-in, passed on an invitation to meet Mr. Kim.
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Some EU diplomats following the talks closely have been more optimistic that EU negotiators would tell a 1630 GMT meeting of national envoys on Sunday that a deal had been achieved.
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After the visit to North Korea the envoys will travel to the United States to brief officials, and Seoul said it would also coordinate closely with officials in Japan and China.
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NATO envoys are expected to meet Russian officials in the NATO-Russia Council forum next week to make a last-ditch attempt to save the INF treaty before the August deadline.
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The ministry has said it is summoning the envoys of Western states who took "unfriendly steps" towards Russia over the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
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In part, that is because all governments will have had the chance to resolve problems during meetings of their envoys in Brussels and a meeting on Friday among leaders' "sherpa" aides.
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In Brussels, envoys from the 27 other EU member states met to work on a political declaration on future EU-UK relations that would form a package with the Brexit deal.
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Officially, the Taliban insists that the Afghan government is an illegitimate puppet regime; it was only "in a personal capacity" that its envoys met Afghan officials, alongside politicians and representatives of NGOs.
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Trump also currently lacks a top science advisor, and one of the State Department's science envoys — Daniel M. Kammen — resigned in August, possibly calling for the president's impeachment with a hidden acrostic.
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He estimated that there were 4 million or more people in the potential battleground in northwest Syria and he hoped diplomats and military envoys could reach a deal to avoid a "bloodbath".
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Washington (CNN)In the weeks after President Donald Trump's victory, European governments adopted a wait-and-see attitude, telling envoys not to react to every presidential tweet and watching for actual action.
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Both companies are intensely conscious to maintain an apolitical front and cooperate with whoever is in government — as was amply demonstrated when they sent senior envoys to Donald Trump's tech executive roundtable.
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But some local businessmen accuse Beijing of running roughshod over local industry and paying too little heed to circumstances on the ground, with one boss accusing inspectors of behaving like "imperial envoys".
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EU member states will now wait for Britain's reply before launching a "written procedure" whereby governments will have 24 hours to accept or reject the agreement reached by their envoys to Brussels.
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Separately, the envoys of 10 other nations were called in to the Israeli Foreign Ministry to be reprimanded on Sunday, and Netanyahu had more harsh words for Washington over Friday's U.N. vote.
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Sources in diplomatic missions said most foreign envoys had yet to congratulate Rajapaksa as it could be interpreted as legitimizing the new government while there were still complaints his appointment was unconstitutional.
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The meeting of 27 envoys on Sunday to discuss Brexit was the first such meeting after Britain voted to leave the bloc, and a senior official said London's envoy was not invited.
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A foreign ministry official told Reuters that some foreign envoys have said they will only recognize Rajapaksa as prime minister after he can prove he has support of a majority in parliament.
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The U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura will meet senior U.S. and Russian envoys in Geneva on Wednesday and later ambassadors from all five permanent members of the Security Council.
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Saudi Arabia "needs to see the Syrian army taking more and more territory, and their allies in Syria will have to sit down at the table with some Assad envoys," he said.
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A tug-of-war ensued between a senior aide to Mr. Zelensky, Andriy Yermak, and another of Mr. Trump's envoys to Ukraine, Kurt Volker, over the wording of the proposed public statement.
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Western envoys have previously urged the government and citizens to prepare carefully for the elections in a nation where the 2007 vote was followed by ethnic blood-letting that killed 1,200 people.
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Instead of joining the gabfest, Putin sent envoys a day later to deliver a demarche to U.S. embassy officials in Baghdad, informing them that Russia was about to begin bombing in Syria.
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A outside mediator could immediately allow for proximity talks among the sides,and quiet authorized backchannel discussions could convene unofficial envoys who have no hang ups about who sits at the table.
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He tweeted that the Canadian PM was "dishonest and weak" and directed his envoys not to agree to the final communique that normally is released at the end of these multilateral meetings.
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Speaking after EU negotiators met envoys from the other 27 member states, the diplomat said final texts had been agreed also on the rights of expatriate citizens and on a financial settlement.
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"Pompeo has to construct a team and fast, and appointing special envoys is one way to do that," said Thomas A. Shannon, who recently retired as the department's highest-ranking career diplomat.
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When Mr. Moon's special envoys met with Mr. Kim in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, last week, he said he was willing to denuclearize before Mr. Trump's term ends in early 2021.
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And two of Mr. Trump's top envoys to Ukraine drafted a statement for the country's new president in August that would have committed Ukraine to pursuing investigations into Mr. Trump's political rivals.
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Its envoys shuttle between world capitals, meeting with diplomats and attempting to shore up alliances for the Hermit Kingdom in the lead up to an historic summit with US President Donald Trump.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan/KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan Taliban leaders said on Thursday that their new political chief will not be attending peace talks with U.S. envoys due to take place in Qatar next week.
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But a month later, envoys and security analysts claimed that the move was not a rotation, but a reinforcement, and that Beijing had quietly doubled its troop contingent inside the city-state.
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There are certainly things to fix in a State Department whose mission has grown cluttered, with some two dozen special envoys and special advisers for everything from global youth to disability rights.
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But like the Indonesian and United Nations envoys who previously sought to mediate, China is finding the business of diplomacy tough going, with few signs that the crisis will soon be resolved.
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" African UN envoys issued a statement saying their group is "extremely appalled at, and strongly condemns the outrageous, racist and xenophobic remarks attributed to the President of the United States of America.
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South Korea's national security director, Chung Eui-yong, will head the group of special envoys that are heading to Pyongyang for discussions over tensions on the Korean Peninsula, The Associated Press reported.
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South Korea is pinning high hopes on Kim's remarks to Moon's special envoys earlier this month that he wanted to achieve denuclearization within Trump's first term in office ending in early 2021.
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More diplomatic back and forth will follow, with a meeting of the 27 national EU envoys in Brussels on Thursday and a meeting of EU leaders' main negotiators - or sherpas - on Friday.
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As a result, the administration decided not to extend an invitation to Israeli government officials to a conference expected to be attended by envoys from Arab governments as well as European nations.
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At a summit this month with the European Union, Chinese envoys made clear that their country is more interested in the trappings of global leadership than in the responsibilities that go with it.
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The envoys from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa referred to "unilateral measures that are incompatible with" international trade rules after a meeting Monday in the South African administrative capital of Pretoria.
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Any new appointments will have to be approved by Congress, a lengthy process in the easiest of times, but a potentially months-long slog when there are dozens of envoys to get through.
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A photo tweeted Thursday morning of ambassadors from Germany, France and the European Union with outgoing UK Ambassador Kim Darroch literally showed the other envoys standing shoulder to shoulder with their British counterpart.
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He has just over two months to staff the State Department, Pentagon, his White House National Security staff, install new leadership at the Intelligence Agencies and begin to install top diplomatic envoys overseas.
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As well as recent statements from U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his British and German counterparts, some 11 European Union envoys met Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam to formally protest.
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A letter from President Hassan Rouhani was delivered to the envoys of countries that are still committed to the deal despite the unilateral withdrawal of the United States from the accord last year.
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Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, has operated a private foreign back channel with two unofficial envoys as part of a campaign to discredit Trump's Democratic rivals and undermine Robert Mueller's investigation.
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The hope is that Pyongyang, in return, would send its own envoys to the US. If that happens, it would be the first major step toward reestablishing diplomatic relations between the two nations.
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Back in 1948 the Nizam of Hyderabad, then India's biggest and richest princely state, sent envoys to London with a purse of £1m to give to Pakistan, which had been shipping him arms.
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The military escalation is expected to be a focus of talks in Geneva on Friday between envoys from seven countries including U.S. Ambassador James Jeffrey and U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen.
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As well as recent statements from U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his British and German counterparts, some 11 European Union envoys met Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam to protest formally.
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The joint EU decision, which may still be changed, will be discussed among national envoys in Brussels on Thursday with the aim of adopting it when the bloc's foreign ministers meet on Monday.
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India ordered one employee of the Pakistani High Commission out of the country last week on suspicion of espionage, triggering a tit-for-tat expulsion of one of its own envoys by Islamabad.
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U.S. President Donald Trump's envoys are also working on the most detailed set of proposals to date for the overall plan, the White House official said in a briefing with reporters on Monday.
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Corker expressed support for Tillerson's move on Monday, noting that the State Department reauthorization bill his committee passed directed Foggy Bottom to tell Congress which special envoys it wanted to keep in place.
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When they reached the French lines, they halted, the German bugler was replaced by a French one (his bugle is in a Paris museum today), and the German peace envoys continued their journey.
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The envoys next boarded a railway carriage that had once belonged to Napoleon III, who was forced to surrender most of Alsace and part of Lorraine to Germany in the Franco-Prussian War.
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Washington (CNN)The US ambassador to Myanmar was one of dozens of US envoys to get the same directions from Washington this spring: uncover North Korean sources of income, then cut them off.
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The official number of dead was between 20133,100 and 1,200 by the end of February 2008, when international envoys brokered a truce, though Kenyan investigators say the real figure is probably much higher.
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A senior aide of Mr. Moon's told reporters in Seoul that the results of the talks would be announced after the envoys returned home later Tuesday from the two-day trip, he said.
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During talks with Moon's envoys this week, the North expressed its willingness to denuclearize if military threats against it are eliminated, and the security of its regime is guaranteed, without presenting precise conditions.
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Mr. Suh was one of two South Korean envoys who visited the White House last week to brief Mr. Trump on their meeting with Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang a few days earlier.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU Brexit negotiators summoned national envoys and journalists at short notice on Monday as speculation mounted among diplomats of an interim deal to grant Britain a transition — though some urged caution.
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Her rise created tensions in the court and the royal family, which were documented by foreign envoys, who often wrote with disdain about Nur's influence over Jahangir and described him as an alcoholic.
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The Brazilian government is also refusing to renew the credentials of the envoys in Brasilia of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whose legitimacy is not recognized by Brazil and more than 50 other nations.
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Sheikh Tamim welcomed the proposal of Prince Mohammed during the call "to assign two envoys to resolve controversial issues in a way that does not affect the sovereignty of the states," QNA said.
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" Ayatollah Khamenei said that "sitting at the negotiating table" with American envoys would open the door to greater American intervention in the region and that such negotiations therefore must "come to an end.
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In 2010, he was incarcerated for his political opposition to Viktor Yanukovych, the pro-Russia Ukrainian President, and his release became a cause célèbre for the European envoys who'd visited him in prison.
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Chinese officials cynically believe—and will say in private—that Western leaders and envoys raise human rights out of a sense of reluctant obligation, in order to placate activists and public opinion back home.
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An aerial view shows burned-down villages that were once inhabited by the Rohingya people, seen from a Myanmar military helicopter carrying the United Nations envoys to northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, on May 1.
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Geir Pedersen said that envoys from 7 Arab and Western states backing the opposition, known as the "small group", which includes the United States, are due to meet in the Swiss city on Friday.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO envoys will hold a further formal meeting with Russia on July 13, days after the alliance's summit in Warsaw, in a sign Washington and Moscow want to defuse tensions in Europe.
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Israel, which has long regarded the Human Rights Council as biased and deeply hostile to its interests, has refused to cooperate with some other council envoys, including those investigating the recent conflicts in Gaza.
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Two unofficial envoys reporting directly to Donald Trump's personal lawyer have waged a remarkable back-channel campaign to discredit the president's rivals and undermine the special counsel's inquiry into Russian meddling in US elections.
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But the full extent to which the two unofficial envoys had inserted themselves into America's diplomacy with Ukraine — a country both at war with and deeply compromised by Russia — has never previously been revealed.
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What should have been a routine conference in Italy, the "Mediterranean Dialogues Forum" aimed at building relations with leading envoys from the West and Middle East, instead turned into something of a diplomatic incident.
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An EU diplomat dealing with Brexit in Brussels told Reuters the bloc's negotiator Michel Barnier has presented such an idea during a recent briefing for envoys from the remaining 27 national capitals in Brussels.
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The joint EU decision, which may still be changed, is to be discussed among national envoys in Brussels on Thursday with the aim of adopting it when the bloc's foreign ministers meet on Monday.
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China's reluctance to provide information and its refusal to allow Swedish or British envoys access to Gui or Lee - a breach of international conventions - is fuelling a diplomatic crisis, several senior Western diplomats said.
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But it would not have happened had Mr Moon's envoys not returned from Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, with an assurance from Mr Kim that he would put his nuclear weapons on the table.
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Mahathir, who served as Prime Minister for 22 years, has himself been critical of Western intervention in the past and was reported to have stopped opposition leaders from meeting foreign envoys during his rule.
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The country's senior regulators met about 50 envoys from foreign banks last week to explain how they could move business to Europe's biggest economy after Britain leaves the EU, German financial watchdog Bafin said.
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President Barack Obama has planned to slash the number of US troops from about 0003,2000 to 2320,2000 before he leaves office in 2017, despite calls from former commanders and envoys to halt the drawdown.
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President Barack Obama has planned to slash the number of US troops from about 9,800 to 5,500 before he leaves office in 2017, despite calls from former commanders and envoys to halt the drawdown.
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SARAJEVO, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Western envoys urged Bosnia on Tuesday to revive stalled economic reforms and pass legislation to would unlock more than 500 million euros ($587 million) in international loans and IMF cash.
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Background reading: • South Korean envoys said that the North's leader, Kim Jong-un, was open to negotiations with the United States over its nuclear program but wanted military threats eliminated and its security guaranteed.
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The South Korean envoys visited the White House on Thursday to brief Mr. Trump and his staff on their meeting with Mr. Kim, which was the first between South Korean officials and Mr. Kim.
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While most analysts and regional envoys believe China remains keen to avoid an actual conflict with the significantly more powerful U.S. navy in the South China Sea, it is working to close the gap.
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In the speech, as in an address delivered to foreign envoys last month, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi declined to tackle accusations that the military has unleashed arson, murder and rape on the Rohingya.
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Within hours of the call, Qatar's state news agency issued a statement that said the emir "welcomed a proposal" by the young Saudi prince to appoint two peace envoys to help bridge their differences.
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In their March meeting, Mr. Kim told the South Korean emissaries that he hoped the United States and South Korea would "readjust" their annual military drills "when the situation stabilizes," according to the envoys.
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The State Department spokeswoman said the agency was assessing "the utility of the nearly 70 special representatives or special envoys" who she said were often separated from the topical experts in the agency's bureaus.
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The envoys issued a joint statement following a closed-door meeting of the 15-member council on North Korea after Pyongyang said it had test-fired a new submarine-launched ballistic missile last Wednesday.
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Russia will soon expel British diplomats in retaliation for Britain's decision to kick out 23 Russian envoys over a chemical attack on a former Russian double agent, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.
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The envoys issued a joint statement following a closed-door meeting of the 15-member council on North Korea after Pyongyang said it had test-fired a new submarine-launched ballistic missile last Wednesday.
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Envoys have been working for weeks to bridge differences, and European sources said they came up with new language on the climate issue on Thursday which would be put to the leaders for approval.
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Last week, envoys from Arab states including Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Kuwait based in New Delhi met Indian junior foreign minister M.J. Akbar to brief the government about an Arab League meeting on Dec.
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The envoys' meeting, and Putin's remarks, took place ahead of Trump's visit to South Korea this weekend, during which Trump and Moon are expected to discuss ways to kick-start dialogue with the North.
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The country's senior regulators met about 50 envoys from foreign banks on Monday to explain how they could move business to Europe's biggest economy after Britain leaves the European Union, German financial watchdog Bafin said.
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The daughter of President John F. Kennedy was one of a dozen American envoys appointed by former President Barack Obama who were directed to leave their diplomatic positions upon the election of President Donald Trump.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand has rebuked Chinese envoys for praising pro-Beijing students who scuffled last week with supporters of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement on a university campus, a news website said on Wednesday.
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Macron called on the United States not to abandon a multinational Iran nuclear deal as Western envoys said Britain, France and Germany were nearing a package that seeks to persuade Trump to save the pact.
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Expressions of contrition from foreign designers and CEOs were paraded across social-media sites, joined by resignation letters from Chinese celebrities, noisily quitting as envoys for errant brands and stressing their love for the motherland.
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Tillerson met with Wang and Lavrov as part of an annual gathering of top envoys of 26 Asia-Pacific nations plus the European Union for talks on regional security known as the ASEAN Regional Forum.
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"Key risk: Targeted UK tax measures to attract investment and business," read the document, presented as a series of slides to accompany a briefing by Commission officials to envoys from the 27 other EU governments.
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The trio of envoys sent by South Korea's president Moon Jae-in to meet the North Koreans, and then sent to Washington to brief Mr Trump, ascribed their optimism to the American president's forceful approach.
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In response to the poisoning, the United States and more than 20 other nations expelled dozens of Russian diplomats and intelligence officers, prompting the Russians to retaliate in kind, expelling American and other Western envoys.
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For South Korea, which has thousands of artillery pieces pointed at it from across the North Korean border, the absence of an ambassador is unnerving, particularly given the appointments of envoys in other Asian capitals.
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Mustafa Sejari, a senior official in Syria's mainstream rebel group, said the envoys described to U.S. officials the damaging impact of President Donald Trump's decision last year to stop equipping and training certain rebel groups.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's senior Middle East envoys met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday to discuss Israeli-Palestinian peace prospects, the White House said, after holding separate talks with Arab leaders.
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Despite Austria's abundance of foreign diplomats and spies, it did not expel any Russian envoys over the Skripal affair, citing its neutrality and the government's intention to be a "bridge-builder" between east and west.
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It would have been hard to imagine only a few years ago that Washington would be sending envoys to tell Beijing that its excessive $375 billion surplus on American trades could no longer be tolerated.
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On Wednesday the Palestinian Foreign Ministry announced the recall of its envoys in Romania, Hungary, Austria and the Czech Republic because those countries participated in the reception for the U.S. delegation that inaugurated the embassy.
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They say the North Koreans are holding out for a second summit because they believe they can extract greater concessions by meeting with Trump directly, as opposed to working with envoys like Pompeo or Biegun.
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Mr. Moon's office said that an impressive array of senior American officials gathered in the White House to hear his envoys' briefing on Thursday, including Vice President Mike Pence, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and others.
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Even so, Mr. Yang said, that did not signal that Mr. Kim was willing to give up his nuclear arsenal, though he has told South Korean envoys that he was prepared to discuss the possibility.
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, has told South Korean envoys he is willing to negotiate with the United States on abandoning his country's nuclear weapons, officials from the South said Tuesday.
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After South Korean envoys met Mr. Kim in Pyongyang, they said Mr. Kim said his country would not need any nuclear weapons if it no longer felt threatened by the United States and its allies.
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And increasingly florists are returning to ferns, this time not as status symbols or coddled exotics but as envoys from deep time that have steadfastly weathered it all, reminding us that this, too, shall pass.
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Taliban Open New Front Against Aid Workers While Talking Peace: The group was unusually harsh in its rhetoric toward main target, pointing out U.S. ties, even as peace talks with American envoys continued in Qatar.
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After declaring the state of emergency, Mr. Yameen sent envoys to China, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, all of which he considers friendly to his rule, to update them on the situation and seek their support.
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During the Cold War, American envoys told stories of finding feces in their residences, of power being shut off and of Cuban agents tailgating diplomats' vehicles and making it impossible for them to change lanes.
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The impact of President Trump's executive order, barring the nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries, is reverberating through the United Nations system, even though it does not affect foreign country envoys who have diplomatic passports.
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My colleague Mike Schmidt, who helped break the story last night about American envoys drafting a statement for Ukraine's president, called me this morning as he was eating breakfast to help me answer that question.
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"We support paring back the number of special envoys, especially when the function can be folded back into the bureaus, clarifying the lines of authority," said Barbara Stephenson, president of the American Foreign Service Association.
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Sources in diplomatic missions said most foreign envoys had yet to send congratulatory messages to Rajapaksa as it could be interpreted as legitimising the new government while there were still complaints his appointment was unconstitutional.
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As the U.S. started to rebuild institutions flattened under that policy, Iranian envoys cultivated alliances with key Iraqi officials such as Abdul-Mahdi and other future Cabinet members of former Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi.
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"EU states agree that the existing anti-money laundering provisions are not sufficient," one of the officials said, reporting discussions held by EU states' envoys last week to prepare this week's meeting of finance ministers.
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U.S. envoys also told Bosnia's police chiefs that millions of dollars Washington has provided for police training and security assistance would be at risk if Serb authorities set up a police reserve without professional qualifications.
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EU envoys stressed the need to ensure a level-playing field in future trade and sought to include articles on coordination with Britain after Brexit on issues ranging from social security to aviation to development.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO envoys will hold a formal meeting with Russia on Thursday, their fourth since the 2014 crisis in Ukraine halted regular talks, although both sides continue to accuse each other of destabilizing eastern Europe.
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The envoys from 10 of the 14 countries that voted for the resolution and have embassies in Israel—Britain, China, Russia, France, Egypt, Japan, Uruguay, Spain, Ukraine and New Zealand—were summoned to the Foreign Ministry.
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Hanoi wanted to have the launchers in place as it expected tensions to rise in the wake of the landmark international court ruling against China in an arbitration case brought by the Philippines, foreign envoys said.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, two cabinet ministers and the head of the military met South African envoys on Thursday in his office, a day after the military seized power, the state Herald newspaper said.
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In Doha, which hosts the political leadership of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, Sheikh Tamim and the envoys discussed "the improvement of the humanitarian situation and living conditions in Gaza Strip," Qatar state news agency QNA reported.
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On Wednesday, he called on the United States not to abandon the Iran deal as Western envoys said Britain, France and Germany were nearing agreeing a package they hope could persuade Trump to save the pact.
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Kabul-based Western envoys say little hard thought has been given to how aid plans and other support would have to be intensified and tailored to fit a new era of peace, and possible power sharing.
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Last week America recalled its senior envoys from El Salvador, the Dominican Republic and Panama for "consultations" following those countries' dumping of Taiwan (even though America itself broke off official relations with the island in 1979).
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Brussels envoys of the 27 states staying in the EU discussed on Thursday the two main ways forward they now see: the no-deal Brexit or another, long delay to Britain's departure date, the sources said.
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U.S. envoys to the Bonn talks were viewed by their counterparts as constructive and helpful, feeding hopes that the United States could eventually be drawn back into the accord, a possibility that Trump has held open.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico on Thursday expressed "worry and irritation" about U.S. policies to two of President Donald Trump's top envoys, giving a chilly reply to the new administration's hard line on immigration, trade and security.
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Previous archbishops of Canterbury have been deeply involved in Middle Eastern diplomacy, as have envoys from the Vatican, especially in the 19th century when Ottoman power was crumbling and external powers were vying to replace it.
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During a meeting with South Korean envoys, Kim Jong Un, North Korea's dictator, opened the possibility of talks with America about ending his country's nuclear programme and suggested he would suspend missile tests once negotiations began.
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Concluding that his unconventional approach was reaping benefits, Mr Trump had earlier surprised South Korean envoys, and his own national-security team, by agreeing to meet Kim Jong Un for talks on North Korea's nuclear aims.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union envoys agreed on Wednesday to extend emergency border controls inside the bloc's free-travel zone for another three months to mid-May, as immigration and security continued to dominate the political agenda.
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What happened in Rakhine is an "internal issue," Min Aung Hlaing told U.N. Security Council envoys who visited him in Naypyitaw in April, according to an account of the meeting published on his official Facebook page.
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Under current Secretary John KerryJohn Forbes KerryA lesson of the Trump, Tlaib, Omar, Netanyahu affair Trump's winning weapon: Time The Memo: O'Rourke looks to hit reset button MORE's leadership, the high number of envoys has persisted.
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After his father's election in October, Eduardo Bolsonaro was one of his first envoys to Washington, where he met with Trump's son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, and was spotted wearing a "Trump 2020" cap.
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The envoys from 10 of the 14 countries that voted for the resolution and have embassies in Israel - Britain, China, Russia, France, Egypt, Japan, Uruguay, Spain, Ukraine and New Zealand - were summoned to the Foreign Ministry.
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte derided U.S. ambassadors as "spies" on Thursday, responding to a media report of an alleged American plot to destabilize his government, a job he said some envoys were appointed solely to do.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico reacted with anger on Wednesday to what one official called "hostile" new U.S. immigration guidelines hours before senior Trump administration envoys began arriving in Mexico City for talks on the volatile issue.
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There were also clear parallels when both speeches catalogued incidents in which American envoys and servicemen had been attacked overseas or taken prisoner by foreign foes, suggesting that the country was no longer feared or respected.
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North Korea offered praise for the "openhearted talk" held Monday in Pyongyang with South Korean envoys, The Associated Press reported, the first bilateral meeting between the neighbors since the death of Kim Jong Il in 2011.
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"Trump pressed Zelensky to "meet or speak with two people the President named explicitly as his personal envoys on these matters, Mr. Giuliani and Attorney General Barr, to whom the President referred multiple times in tandem.
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The envoys representing the 15 members of the Council, including the five veto-wielding permanent members, decided by acclamation in a closed-door session to send Mr. Guterres's name to the General Assembly for final approval.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - "Highly choreographed" tours to Xinjiang organized by the Chinese government are misleading and propagate false narratives about the troubled region, a U.S. official said, after China announced plans to invite European envoys to visit.
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Since inheriting power from his father six years ago, Kim Jong-un has met with envoys from allies like China and Cuba, as well as with personal guests, including the former American basketball star Dennis Rodman.
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The country's state news outlets praised the efforts of the South Korean envoys who met with Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang this week, the first time officials from the South had met the North Korean leader.
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He has dispatched envoys to the Middle East, in an effort to intensify the sanctions the United States has used to squeeze Iran's economy, chiefly by choking off its ability to sell oil to the world.
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South Korean envoys who met Kim in Pyongyang early this month quoted Kim as saying he was "committed to denuclearization", and that he "expressed his eagerness to meet U.S. President Donald Trump as soon as possible".
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Diplomats from the United States mission in Geneva attended the start of a new council session on Monday, but rights advocates and envoys of other countries continued to ask how long the Americans would remain there.
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The speech on January 29 was made at the very last meeting between envoys while the UK was still a member state in the EU bloc–but UK diplomat Tim Barrow reportedly saw the funny side.
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Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni of Italy, facing a daunting migration crisis that intensifies with the summer heat, has kept his government cooped up in August cabinet meetings and has held talks this week with Libyan envoys.
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Hosting envoys from NATO countries in Israel, including the Turkish charge d'affaires standing in for the ambassador who was withdrawn during the bilateral crisis, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered to further close ranks with the alliance.
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The Times has learned that two of President Trump's top envoys to Ukraine drafted a statement for the country's new president in August that would have committed Ukraine to pursuing investigations into Mr. Trump's political rivals.
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Tonight, The Times learned that two of President Trump's top envoys to Ukraine drafted a statement for the country's new president in August that would have committed Ukraine to pursuing investigations into Mr. Trump's political rivals.
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"We see that Belarus (oil) envoys have rushed to all suppliers (in Europe) on Monday, looking for quick supplies, but I am not aware of any spot deals clinched so far," a European oil trader said.
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In the first breakthrough toward a possible peace deal in years, envoys from Moscow and Kiev agreed at talks on Tuesday on an election schedule for the Donbass region and on legislation giving it special status.
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Barnier, speaking to journalists in Brussels after the latest round of negotiations with British envoys, said he was surprised by London's position and that some of the EU's positions on the transition period were non-negotiable.
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Mr. Kislyak was one of several envoys at the Republican National Convention, where his first meeting with Mr. Sessions, according to the attorney general, was a brief encounter after a panel organized by the Heritage Foundation.
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Half a dozen senior European envoys, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, expressed similar views on the sharpness, energy and openness of Macron and his team, whether on specific policy discussions or wider bilateral issues.
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They coordinate with 27 national envoys in COREPER-50 who prepare the GAC-50, or GENERAL AFFAIRS COUNCIL of ministers, whose work is reviewed by 27 SHERPAS for summit meetings of the EUROPEAN COUNCIL AT 27.
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Then on Monday, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres' called for a new global effort to get rid of nuclear weapons, drawing a cautious response from envoys of atomic-armed powers at odds for decades over nuclear disarmament.
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The United States has had staunchly pro-Israeli envoys before, but no one like Friedman -- whose personal commitment and investment in the settlement enterprise and to Jerusalem as Israel's eternal capital -- has been so personal and ideological.
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In the meantime, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported that the envoys are trying to raise up to $1 billion from Gulf countries for economic projects in Gaza and will bring up the idea in meetings this week.
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Chinese envoys have signaled they could live with the dual approach, which is designed to assuage fears of European industry that Europe's economy will suffer if China is able to undercut its industries with heavily subsidized goods.
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Brussels' Brexit negotiators on Monday updated envoys of the 27 states staying in the European Union on the status of the talks, which have stalled just 18 days before Britain is due to leave on March 29.
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VATICAN CITY/CARACAS (Reuters) - Envoys for Venezuela's self-declared caretaker leader Juan Guaido met Vatican officials and lobbied the Italian government for support on Monday in their quest to keep international pressure on socialist President Nicolas Maduro.
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" When Mr. Moon's special envoys met with Mr. Kim in Pyongyang last month, Mr. Kim said his country would no longer need nuclear weapons if it did not feel "threatened militarily" and was provided with "security guarantees.
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The presidency added that Zuma, in his capacity as chair of the Southern African Development Community, was sending special envoys to Zimbabwe to meet with Mugabe and the Zimbabwean Defence Force, which has seized power in Harare.
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Maduro said he was willing to meet with envoys of the so-called International Contact Group, that is backed by the European Union, but said a statement from its first meeting on Thursday was partisan and ideological.
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The meeting is to update envoys on the state of affairs, rather than announce any breakthrough, in talks that have been deadlocked since the British parliament rejected the deal negotiated by Prime Minister Theresa May in January.
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The South Korean envoys are expected to brief U.S. officials on North Korea's stance regarding possible future talks with Washington and its apparent willingness to suspend nuclear tests if the security of the North's regime is secured.
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The embattled president of the Indian Ocean nation has sent envoys to friendly nations such as China, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to brief them on a political crisis that spurred the imposition of a state of emergency.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States, France and Britain told NATO envoys on Saturday their coordinated air strikes on Syrian government targets overnight were a last resort and aimed to stop more chemical attacks, the alliance's chief said.
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There are pitfalls when digesting the dispatches of their regional envoys: Weale said there is "very strong" temptation for the Bank's bosses to see regional visits through the prism of their own beliefs about the economic outlook.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Envoys of France, Britain, Germany, the European Union and Iran discussed the nuclear deal in Brussels on Tuesday, a German official said, ahead of an expected announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump to pull out.
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One EU official told Reuters that on Monday night at a meeting of the Eurogroup Working Group, the body that prepares the meetings of eurozone finance ministers, national envoys had expressed "concern" for the situation in Italy.
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