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China’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Fu Ying expressed her country’s anxiety about this state of affairs in a recent interview.
Although he returned an hour later and delivered the rest of his speech, Egyptians began to demand greater transparency regarding the president's health as well as other state affairs.
The island ran its own affairs, becoming a rambunctious democracy in the 1980s, but never insisted on international recognition as a full-fledged sovereign state.
Just days later, India’s external affairs minister, in Islamabad for the fifth Heart of Asia ministerial conference on Afghanistan, met with top Pakistani officials, including both Sharif and his foreign affairs adviser, before announcing that the two countries had decided to restart a comprehensive dialogue.
Big decisions – on the single market, justice and home affairs, and the composition of the next Commission, to name a few – lie ahead.
On March 24, 2010, what all observers of European affairs have long known will be written in stone: the EU failed to attain the targets for economic growth, efficiency, and modernization set ten years ago in Lisbon.
Another leftist, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, is in charge of European affairs.
The fourth initiative also concerned foreign affairs: the freeing of the six Bulgarian nurses imprisoned in Libya on false charges of infecting children deliberately with HIV/AIDS.
Russia’s approach to international affairs has long centered on respect for national interests and sovereignty, and the belief that all peoples and nations should have the freedom to make their own political, economic, and cultural choices.
It would bolster my self-esteem as a Russian, while educating Americans – whose government has long interfered in other countries’ internal affairs – about the dangers of throwing stones from a glass house.
The idea of a nation-state’s sovereignty is rooted in the seventeenth-century Treaty of Westphalia, which embraced non-interference by external agents in states’ domestic affairs as the guiding principle of international relations.
Recognizing the blatant injustice – not to mention the destructiveness – of this state of affairs, a new initiative, launched by the Carbon Levy Project and supported by a growing number of individuals and organizations, has emerged to demand compensation for vulnerable developing countries from the big polluters.
The intervention by Turkey and Brazil into the globally divisive issue of Iran’s nuclear program is but the latest, and also the clearest, sign of this new element in global affairs.
There is a very big “known unknown” hanging over this fragile state of affairs.
This question is not trivial, because the fiscal hair shirt has become the favored article of policy clothing among those who now dictate economic affairs.
Should the SPD, which will vote on the coalition agreement in early December, block the formation of the new government (an unlikely development but not entirely out of the question), disputes over security and defense affairs would not be the culprit.
Put simply, “governance” refers to a dynamic framework of rules, structures, and processes that help a government manage its economic, political, and administrative affairs.
By this logic, the North needs to find a way to discourage those outsiders from intervening in the peninsula’s affairs.
So Chirac replaced Lamy with Jacques Barrot, an honorable and experienced politician, but one with little knowledge of EU affairs and no language other than French.
Barrot received the transportation portfolio, a minor post far below the type of position - competition or domestic affairs - that Chirac demanded.
According to senior Pakistani officials – including Sartaj Aziz, a key adviser on foreign affairs and national security – there was no agreement in the works when the stories appeared.
Obama mentioned Kashmir as an unresolved issue, while pleading for stability in South Asian affairs.
In proclaiming his mastery of the lingua franca of global affairs, Hollande was asserting himself as a modern statesman, while also suggesting that France will remain as influential as possible on the international scene.
For example, agriculture and rural affairs have been combined under one ministry, as have all environmental issues.
Choe Son Hui, vice minister of foreign affairs, replied by threatening a “nuclear-to-nuclear showdown” if Washington stuck to “unlawful and outrageous” belligerence.
His visit to Ghana highlights the desirability of prominent people from the diaspora making a positive contribution to African affairs.
Military and foreign affairs – what the French system deems the president’s “reserve domain” – are always in the president’s personal control.
Yet followers of world affairs would be unwise to consign colonialism to the proverbial dustbin of history, for it remains a factor in understanding our world's problems and dangers.
For Hobsbawm, the end of the Cold War marked a new and distinct era in world affairs.
To change this state of affairs, institutional investors must be allowed to propose their own slate of directors.
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