It was a good question, to which Yu Wuzhen, then director of Tibet's foreign affairs office, had no good answer.
Accelerating the transformation of the New York representative office of the Soviet Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs into a full-fledged banking office, thereby enabling the Soviet Union to engage in a wide range of banking activities in the United States and increase Soviet personnel, including KGB presence, in New York.
In other Taiwan-related developments, China Daily says Beijing has appointed another top foreign affairs official, Zhang Zhijun, to head the government's Taiwan Affairs Office and replace Japan expert Wang Yi, who has been promoted to foreign minister.
To press for a premature transfer to the CRO might merely provoke a request from India (perhaps even from Canada) to have its affairs handled by the Foreign Office which is, indeed, an issue sure to be posed, though it would be a disadvantage to incoming Commonwealth states.
The candidate who came the closest to their ideal may have been Mr. George Bush, who assumed office unusually prepared for foreign affairs, having served as America's envoy to China and the United Nations.
And broadly speaking, he is intensively engaged, as he has been since he took the oath of office, in matters of foreign affairs and national security.
Add to this the fact that he did not exactly come to office overburdened with knowledge of foreign affairs and you can see why he sometimes looks a little grouchy.
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As Director of the Office of Legal Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Greece from 1976 to 1995, he had represented the Ministry in the case of the Continental Shelf of the Aegean Sea in front of the International Court of Justice (The Hague) in 1976.
George Washington left office during a time in which intense rancor about foreign affairs plausibly threatened to tear the country apart.
Part of a series of seminars for local specialist, the training was organized by the UNESCO Cluster Office in Almaty and supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in cooperation with the Tajikistan National Commission for UNESCO.
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Since entering office seven long months ago, Obama has demonstrated that his guiding philosophy for foreign affairs is that the US and its allies are to blame for their adversaries' hostility toward them.
The presence of this agency has been questioned by many, including Regional President of Lambayeque, Yehude Simon who stated that he would "never" allow such an office to be placed in the region without having first sought the approval of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Regional Government itself.
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