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.
IR--Bagehot (May 17th) thought I looked ill at ease when Robin Cook, the new foreign secretary, presented his mission statement at the Foreign Office.
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.
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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Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign-policy chief, wanted the mission to leave within two weeks, but America rejected that.
Not just the big foreign mining companies but also the UN mission who have more than 10, 000 staff in the country.
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.
British special forces are on standby to stage a rescue mission in Algeria, after foreign gas plant workers were taken hostage, says the Times.
Given its total failure to promote U.S. interests through public diplomacy, and the incompatibility of the mission with the culture of the foreign service, the State Department is the last place to be in charge of such an operation.
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Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said NATO is close to having the number of troops it needs for Afghanistan, where 47, 000 foreign troops take part in the NATO-led mission.
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.
Intervention in Somalia, the original Gulf war, foreign-aid programmes and the Bosnian peace-keeping mission are much harder to justify.
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".
As the prolonged slaughter in Libya and expected continued failure of the NATO mission make clear, Power and her new foreign policy elite have so far distinguished themselves mainly by their gross incompetence.
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".
Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, told a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels.
According to the DOD, our military's dependence on foreign oil increases risks, degrades operational capability, and compromises mission success.
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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.
He dismissed criticism that the presence of foreign troops was the cause of violence, saying that the mission's role was to clear al-Qaeda, help the Afghan state establish itself and then to train security forces.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the West had threatened to end the mission if Moscow opposed its draft resolution, which threatens more sanctions.
The Nepalese Foreign Ministry said Asim Saboor, the assistant secretary at the Pakistani mission in Kathmandu, had been ordered to leave within 72 hours.
In recent days, the Taliban have evicted the foreign staff of two other Christian humanitarian groups -- International Assistance Mission and Serve -- saying they were connected with Shelter Now.
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.
Ahmad said he and the four other diplomats in the mission have been in frequent contact since April with the Iraqi Foreign Ministry operating under the U.S.-led coalition.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry summoned Major-General Iqbal Singh Singha, the head of mission and force commander for United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) on the Golan Heights, to complain about the Israeli violation.
In September Israel's foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, made Israel's first high-level mission to Africa for decades, visiting Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda.
Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Mokdad met representatives of the U.N. mission staying at the hotel and said later that they were unscathed in the blast, and expressed his government's pride that not a single member of the U.N. mission has been harmed since the start of their mandate in late April.
On April 1 hundreds of Afghans descended on the United Nations mission in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif and murdered seven foreign employees.
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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.
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