He was a parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department for Employment, the Department of Transport and the Northern Ireland Office between 1984 and 1990 - but has spent most of his Parliamentary career as a backbencher.
Sir John Chilcot, 70, is a former permanent under-secretary of state at the Northern Ireland Office and has been chairman since 2001 of the Police Foundation and sat on the Butler Inquiry into the intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
"Since 1994, billions of dollars in economic and energy assistance have flowed into the coffers of Pyongyang to buy off their nuclear-weapons program, " Under Secretary of State John Bolton, responsible for US arms control and nonproliferation policies, said last month in Seoul.
Under state law, Secretary of State Jan Brewer -- a Republican -- takes over.
The serious business was conducted out of sight, and involved a series of meetings on a new diplomatic effort to persuade the Iranians to halt their uranium-enrichment program. (Iran argues that its enrichment program is for civilian purposes and is legal under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.) Secretary of State Rice had been involved with developing a new package of incentives.
Thanks to the leadership of senior officials such as Under Secretary of the Treasury Stuart Levey and one of his State Department counterparts, Robert Joseph, American-led initiatives have been launched in the past year to constrict the cash-flows of nations like North Korea and Iran.
The President can expect many more such pyrrhic victories now that his faithful lieutenant, John Bolton, has been forced to leave the Turtle Bay portfolio to the tender mercies of lowest-common-denominator-minded State Department diplomats like Under Secretary Nick Burns.
Tun Sa Im, Under Secretary of State of MoEYS, 3 small working sessions were divided to provide in-depth technical editing and review the draft curriculum during the workshop.
Some cardinals have suggested restructuring the Curia's chain of command, breaking up the all-powerful post of secretary of state, which was held by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone under Pope Benedict XVI.
It was particularly noteworthy insofar as it permitted a vigorous exchange of views between three of the authors of the Center study -- former four-star General John Foss (USA, Ret..) , former Under Secretary of State Eugene V.
During their four years together in the Powell State Department, the Deputy Secretary made no secret of his hostility towards then-Under Secretary Bolton.
"People were being beaten and losing their lives just to exercise their right to vote for their leadership so we cannot, under these conditions, recognise the outcome if, in fact, this run-off goes forward, " Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer told the BBC.
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns and Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Maria Otero visited Indonesia and engaged their Indonesian counterparts in wide-ranging strategic dialogues.
Why not dispatch Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose department had received real-time emails when the consulate was under attack, including one which disclosed that the al-Quaida-linked group Ansar al-Sharia had taken credit?
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