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To be fair, in the past, an ambassador had few opportunities to connect with the host country’s population, apart from the occasional newspaper or television interview, or a photo of a meeting with a host country official or waiting on an airport’s tarmac for a visitor from Washington, DC.
A senior official of a Chinese company has said that, even though rare-earth exports have been restricted, Japanese companies can secure their supply by launching operations in China.
Arata Kochi, the WHO official in charge of malaria said, “We must take a position based on the science and the data.
A senior EU official spelled out what this means: there had been “many cases in the recent past where either Pakistanis were coming to Europe or young EU citizens were going to Pakistan for training and being brainwashed.”
In 2004, OECD countries spent more than four times their official development aid budgets on support for domestic farmers.
Alongside targets like eliminating poverty and measures to protect the environment is a commitment to reducing mortality caused by NCDs – the first time the UN’s official development agenda has taken direct aim at the problem.
In the heat of an international crisis, the Security Council passes resolutions to great public fanfare, establishing an official UN “mandate.”
It does not ask for one cent of additional official funding for the Greek state.
They traveled hundreds of miles and converted their cash for just 1% of the foreign exchange they would have received had they been allowed to exchange it at the official rate applicable for food and medicines.
The national captain was revealed to have a conflict of interest, and the son-in-law of Indian cricket’s most powerful official was implicated in an illegal gambling operation run by a sinister network of bookies.
The CCP might try to eliminate all mention of what happened at Tiananmen Square for fear of triggering renewed calls for human rights and democracy; but, though this anniversary will pass without official acknowledgment, the protesters’ demands have not gone away, and they cannot be suppressed forever.
While India’s relationship with the United States has been faltering of late, following the arrest and mistreatment of an Indian consular official in New York, its ties with Japan are flourishing.
Indeed, the Kremlin and the Russian sports minister, Vitaly Mutko, have accused Grigory Rodchenkov, the former Russian anti-doping official turned whistle-blower, of being a Western stooge.
The Obama administration should hold firm on this through the coming rounds of negotiation, and should appoint a senior official to help coordinate US policy on Darfur in order to ensure that peace efforts there receive the same level of attention as the North-South efforts.
He boasted that he had acquired the skirt illegally through a friend who had “paid” a Zimbabwean government official to smuggle it out of the country.
Former Deputy Foreign Minister Chun Yung-woo warned an American official in 2010 that revising the Nuclear Cooperation Agreement could soon become a “defining issue” in South Korea-US relations, and that it was already attracting “significant amounts of negative press attention.”
Yet officials endlessly insist that there is, as a Scottish health official put it, “absolutely no need for the public to be concerned.”
For example, Ichizo Miyamoto, a former senior finance-ministry official, claims that, accounting for the government’s assets, Japan’s net debt/GDP ratio is below 100%, similar to that of the United States.
And the unrest of the children and grandchildren of Algerian, West African, and Moroccan immigrants in the French banlieues attest to France’s failure to assimilate its immigrant population, despite the Republic’s official egalitarian rhetoric.
Though the current level of anti-Americanism in Russia’s official media seems unprecedented, the regime is most worried about internal problems.
If this is not done forthwith, we will not grant Indian Visa to any Amazon official.
For the state official who turns his back on suffering, his country’s citizens lack consequence.
When I attended a Confederations Cup game in Kazan last June, the referee and linesmen were Saudi Arabian, another official was Iranian, and another was American.
The official in question was Adair Turner, the head of the United Kingdom Financial Services Authority, the country’s chief financial regulator.
I sat once with an official at a London airport who picked up a Kenyan woman bringing cocaine into the United Kingdom.
While no official statistics exist, some estimate that more than two million people practice Sufism in Iran.
And crackdowns on official corruption do make a difference.
Newspapers and magazines are blandly reproducing official pronouncements and reports from the state-run news agency.
As a Chinese official once explained to me, the strategy is to open the window but place a screen on it.
“If enacted, Brown-Kaufman would have broken up the six biggest banks in America,” a senior Treasury official said.
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