Mr Wang's flight to a foreign mission was extraordinary for somebody of his celebrity (as a fighter of organised crime) and rank (equivalent to that of a deputy provincial governor).
And, of course, he's, you know, been traveling around the world with a very - foreign policy mission.
But the US rejected a suggestion by EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana that a mission would be sent out in the next two weeks.
In response to a request for help from Malian authorities, European Union foreign ministers agreed Thursday on a mission to train Mali's army, the EU said.
British special forces are on standby to stage a rescue mission in Algeria, after foreign gas plant workers were taken hostage, says the Times.
Norwegian Foreign Minister, Knut Vollebaek, ended a brief mission to Sri Lanka saying he was encouraged that both sides were willing to seek a political solution, and that he had agreed to continue his peace mission.
In response, the Ecuadorean foreign ministry said the helicopter had been on a supply mission to a base near the border and had strayed into Colombian airspace due to a "navigation error".
Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, told a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels.
While foreign minister, for instance, he once mounted a unilateral mission to rescue a French hostage from the jungle in Colombia, which ended in failure and fiasco.
In a joint statement after their meeting, the leaders reaffirmed plans for U.S. and other foreign troops in Afghanistan to shift from a combat to a support mission in mid-2013, near the level when Mr. Obama came to office in 2009.
The taxman always has an eye for the fine print and lawyers pointed out that Article 39(1)of the 1961 Convention obliges the mission to notify the Foreign Office of the appointment of a member of its staff.
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Meanwhile, China said it will send observers to join the U.N. monitoring mission, the state-run China Daily newspaper reported, citing a foreign ministry spokesman.
CNN: U.N. Security Council to vote on Syria observer mission
On Saturday, Mr Muallem hit out at the group after it asked the UN to contribute to the proposed observer mission, calling it an invitation "for foreign intervention instead of a call to avoid one".
The Senegalese foreign minister, Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, has arrived in Ivory Coast on a new mediation mission.
Tudjman wants the Europeans to extend their non-military observer mission, now limited to Slovenia, to his republic as a sign that foreign countries will help Croatia stand up to the Yugoslav army.
Doctors exiled from Cuba say that in exchange for their mission work they earned a third or less of what Havana got for their services from foreign governments.
Mr Hague said opposition groups in eastern Libya formed an interim national council in Benghazi on Saturday and ministers and Foreign Office officials "are in contact with members of this council, who welcomed the idea of a British diplomatic mission to Libya".
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