Posts Tagged ‘ foreign-office ’

Here’s an interesting post from The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com An invasion of Iraq without the green light from the UN Security Council would be a crime of aggression. That was the verdict of Sir Michael Wood , senior legal adviser at the Foreign Office in 2003
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LONDON (AP) -- Britain's Foreign Office named the United States embassy Monday as the worst offender among diplomatic missions that have racked up 36 million pounds ($54 million) in disputed traffic congestion charges.
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ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi has underlined the need for Pakistan and Kuwait to further strengthen bilateral relations in all fields including Kuwaiti investment in Pakistan, as the country offers attractive investment opportunities. The foreign minister was talking to the new Ambassador of Kuwait to Pakistan, Nawab Abdul Aziz Alenzi, who...
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SAN’A, Yemen — The British ambassador narrowly escaped what appeared to be a suicide attack on his armored car while traveling to work Monday morning, Yemeni officials said. British Embassy spokeswoman Chantel Mortimer said the ambassador, Timothy Torlot, was unhurt, but the attack underlined the precarious security in Yemen. An impoverished Arab nation...
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LONDON: Britain has cut back its counter-terrorism programme in Pakistan due to the fall in the pound’’s value, a minister has said, drawing criticism a major “terrorist threat” was being neglected. Programmes in counter-terrorism and radicalisation in Pakistan had been cut as the Foreign Office was hit by losses of 110 million pounds...
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Foreign Office Spokesman Abdul Basit said on Friday that India did not seem intent on composite dialogue with Pakistan, adding that it did not want to resolve core issues including water and Kashmir. Abdul Basit maintained that Pakistan was a responsible state and answers Indian accusations through proper channel. He said...
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Foreign Office Spokesman Abdul Basit said on Friday that India did not seem intent on composite dialogue with Pakistan, adding that it did not want to resolve core issues including water and Kashmir. Abdul Basit maintained that Pakistan was a responsible state and answers Indian accusations through proper channel. He said...
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