Instead, a period of up to three years could pass before Mr Higgins is invited to take part in a UK state visit.
Prime Minister Nouri Maliki who's Shia, and who's currently in Turkey on a state visit, is apparently convening Cabinet next week to try and resolve this crisis.
The mayor also was a worthy debate foe in his Memorial Day-weekend tilt with Walker, which I watched as a fully engaged Michigander while back in my native state for a visit.
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No, in the context of a state visit which was intended to underline the success and importance of the relationship between London and Washington, Iraq was definitely not a subject to dwell on, or indeed to mention at all if it could possibly be avoided.
In the first state visit of a Myanmar leader to the U.S. capital in nearly 47 years, Messrs.
All the trappings, in other words, of a state visit save the absence of the Head of State herself.
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Despite this liberation the queen remains a passive figure, sought out only if there is a crisis in the Commonwealth, a row over royal finances or a controversial state occasion such as the visit of the much-reviled Japanese Emperor Hirohito in 1971.
At Disneyland in Anaheim, the oldest of the company's four theme parks, the company is building California Adventure, a microcosm of the state that will allow the tourist in a hurry to visit Venice Beach, Napa Valley, the Golden Gate, a redwood grove and a host of other sights that in real life are inconveniently scattered, all in a single day.
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Burma's President Thein Sein is heading to the US and will meet President Obama on Monday - in the first state visit by a Burmese leader since 1966.
In August 2002 Mr Fox cancelled a visit to the ranch in protest at the US state's execution of a Mexican national who killed a US police officer.
The BBC's Miami correspondent, Fergal Parkinson, says many see Mr Bush's speech less as a response to the visit than a political one aimed at securing votes in a state which is crucial for both the Republican Party and the Bush family in particular.
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All the while, he suffered from a stomach disorder, which reached its climax after a state visit to India in August 2007, forcing him to the lavatory so often that he felt he could not govern.
Critics see the state visit as another sweetener in a relationship that already reeked of corruption.
The president's late father, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan paid a state visit to the UK in 1989.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, 59, became the first world leader to make a state visit to the UK in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee year.
In February, Saudi King Abdullah feted Ahmadinejad during a state visit.
The day of the arrests, French Defense Minister Herve Morin was meeting with his American counterpart, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington on a previously unannounced visit.
President Al Nahyan's state visit follows one made by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to the UAE in 2010 and a visit there by Mr Cameron in November.
State Department and Pentagon officials discussed the matter in a recent visit to Syria, the official said.
Minutes after the Senate decision, the bill was submitted to the Irish Presidential Commission, in the absence of President Mary McAleese, who is on a state visit to Australia.
Then we end the day, well before our final flight, in Ohio, as we like to visit the state on a daily basis these days -- 28 percent of Ohio votes have already been cast.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to Kirkuk in northern Iraq today.
Better yet, Air Force One is to land there in mid-December, bringing President Bill Clinton on a quasi-state visit.
He is believed to have been a significant contributor to Estrada's presidential campaign, and his connections to the Democratic Party will no doubt come in handy as Estrada's foreign-policy advisers try to wrangle a state visit to Washington later this year.
During a historic visit to North Korea in 2000, then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright presented Kim Jong Il, famously an NBA fan, with a basketball signed by Jordan that later went on display in the huge cave at Mount Myohyang that holds gifts to the leaders.
It would also play well in the West, particularly Washington, where Jiang is due soon for a landmark state visit.
The Prince made his intentions known yesterday when he paid a courtesy visit to Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan at the State House in Abuja.
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