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BERLIN – Fuad Siniora, Lebanon’s former prime minister, is a thoughtful man with deep experience in Middle Eastern politics.
The foreign minister of the Philippines, which is also currently engaged in a heated territorial conflict with China, called on Japan to rearm itself to balance China militarily, notwithstanding his country’s bitter legacy of Japanese occupation.
Second, with Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister, Israel now has a government which is far less likely to be willing – or able – to make major concessions and evacuate hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers from the West Bank.
After years of service to the Assad dynasty, Hezbollah is now working to recover its domestic legitimacy, even pushing for the return of Saad Hariri, the Sunni leader of the anti-Iranian March 14 Alliance, to his post as prime minister.
He remains unrepentant about the obscene levels of corruption during his tenure as prime minister.
Yet the prime minister never attends EU meetings and the foreign minister systematically leaves internal EU decisions to a junior secretary of state or a diplomatic representative.
Yanis Varoufakis, a former Greek finance minister, said that by agreeing to the EU-Turkey deal, Europe has “lost its soul.”
That bold political pledge, indeed, allowed him to form an alliance with his former rival, Kim Jong Pil, who will be prime minister in President Kim's first cabinet.
A Solidarity representative, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, became prime minister.
Likewise, the spokesman of India’s foreign minister, Navtej Sarna, has said that his country would reject such mandatory restrictions.
It may be trendy for an Italian politician to flaunt his Mediterranean macho image, but that image becomes hard to stomach when the prime minister launches a campaign to eradicate street prostitution, with possible jail sentences for clients, while sleeping with paid escorts.
Nor are Italians reassured to learn that Berlusconi fielded a number of candidates during the recent European Parliament elections whose only discernible qualification was that they were pretty young girls who had possibly spent some time in the prime minister’s company at his Sardinian Villa or Roman Palazzo.
Indeed, some maintain that Berlusconi will be forced to resign as prime minister by the end of the year.
When Russia’s former president and current prime minister, Vladimir Putin, declared several years ago that the greatest disaster of the twentieth century was the demise of the Soviet Union, he didn’t just speak for himself but arguably for the majority of Russia’s political elite.
Ukraine’s new prime minister, Mykola Azarov, was stunned when Putin unexpectedly confronted him during a joint press conference with a suggestion to merge the Ukrainian and Russian gas companies.
Although he oversaw a period of rapid economic growth as Prime Minister, many poor Thais dislike him, favoring populist parties linked to former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose sister was also prime minister until she was ousted in a 2014 coup.
Along with a passport comes an offer of a free apartment in the Mordovia region (still a Gulag site) and even a job as the local culture minister.
The son of Malaysia’s third prime minister and a cousin of the current prime minister, he is widely considered modern, moderate, and cosmopolitan.
A true hard-liner is Nik Aziz, the chief minister of Kelantan state, who is also the spiritual leader of Malaysia’s largest Islamic party, PAS, which now controls two state governments.
President Goodluck Jonathan and the country’s finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, championed the idea after learning that the abductions by Boko Haram had caused girls to become afraid to go to school.
An outraged Italian minister warned of a new mobilization of populist nationalism in an “August 1914” scenario.
He has appointed Anand Panyarachun, a former Thai prime minister who recently headed a United Nations reform panel, to select and direct a blue-ribbon national commission to seek reconciliation with the southern separatists.
The recent nomination of former Spanish economy minister Luis de Guindos to serve as ECB vice president offers some clues regarding what to expect.
In 2003, when I was Spain’s foreign minister, I had the opportunity to engage with the most ambitious of Baker’s proposals – the so-called Baker II plan – which envisioned self-rule under a Western Sahara Authority for a period of five years, with a referendum on independence to follow.
As Brazil teetered on the brink the IMF sounded as if it was in as much self-denial as the Brazilian finance minister - no problem, no overvaluation, everything will work out.
But Yeltsin has lost most of his general popularity and prime minister, Chernomyrdin, remains a clumsy public politician, in spite of obvious improvements in his performance lately.
The residual suspicion that lingers in countries like China and Korea sets limits on Japan’s appeal that are reinforced every time the Japanese prime minister visits the Yasukuni Shrine.
Asian Values RIPNEW YORK – Few politicians have garnered as many effusive public tributes after their death as Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founder and long-serving former prime minister.
As interior minister, Salvini has taken a hard line on migration, not least by turning away vessels carrying asylum seekers rescued from the Mediterranean.
As Germany’s interior minister, Seehofer wants to start turning away asylum seekers who have already registered in other member states.
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