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Corrine Brown

In 2003-2005, Brown cosponsored legislation regarding civil rights and foreign relations.

Rodolfo Biazon

Aside from this, he holds the following positions in the Senate: Vice-Chair of the Committees on Agriculture and Food and Foreign Relations, and a Member of 15 other Senate Committees.


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1999 State of the Union Address

The president also discussed the future of Social Security, education, foreign relations and "solving the so-called Y2K computer problem".

A World Transformed

A World Transformed is a 1998 book (ISBN 0-679-43248-5) by former President George H. W. Bush and Brent Scowcroft, Bush's National Security Advisor, documenting foreign relations during the Bush administration.

Alejandro Estivill

After his entrance into the Foreign Service in 1993, he has served as special advisor to the Secretary of Foreign Relations, Political Affairs Attaché for the Mexican Embassy in Costa Rica, Chief of Staff for the Undersecretary of Foreign Relations Enrique Berruga, Director General for Cultural Affairs and Director General for North American Affairs.

Ambassador of Iceland to the United States

Thus the United States Ambassador to Denmark conducted foreign relations between the United States and Iceland.

Andrei Fursenko

In 1990-1991 together with Yuriy Kovalchuk (another deputy director) and Vladimir Yakunin (head of the foreign relations department of the institute) he tried to create a commercial enterprise within the institute that would be engaged in the application of scientific achievements.

Cambodia–Japan relations

Cambodia–Japan relations are foreign relations between Cambodia and Japan.

Chen Pokong

Topics of Chen's analysis include a range of contemporary topics involving the People's Republic of China and its political system, including: instability, corruption, economic affairs, military affairs, foreign relations, cross-Strait affairs, political reform, and strategic affairs.

Chinese North Korean

China–North Korea relations, the foreign relations between the People's Republic of China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Constitution of Panama

Article 277 of the 1972 constitution designated Torrijos as the "Maximum Leader of the Panamanian Revolution", granting him extraordinary powers for a period of six years, including the power to appoint most government officials and to direct foreign relations.

Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development

Canada assumed progressively greater control over its foreign relations during and after World War I, and its full autonomy in this field was confirmed by the Statute of Westminster in 1931.

Eric P. Schwartz

At the Council on Foreign Relations, he directed the Independent Task Force on Post-Conflict Iraq, working closely with co-chairs Thomas R. Pickering and James R. Schlesinger.

Estonian War of Independence

A subsequent broadcast by the Russians on 21 July led to the British journalist Arthur Ransome sounding out the Commissar for Foreign Relations Georgy Chicherin on the subject of peace talks.

Eugene R. McGrath

McGrath was a member of the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York, the Development Advisory Council for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the National Academy of Engineering, and the New York City Public/Private Initiatives.

George Bugliarello

He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Engineering Education, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Biomedical Engineering Society, and a Founding Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Haymana, Ankara

Haymana Prison has had a fair share of politicians as inmates over the years, including historian Fikret Başkaya, professor of foreign relations Haluk Gerger, Workers' Party (Turkey) leader Doğu Perinçek, political scientist Yalçın Küçük, and playwright Bilgesu Erenus (these last two jointly published their Haymana memoirs).

James R. Gaines

A graduate of New York’s McBurney School and the University of Michigan, Gaines is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Historical Association, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Overseas Press Club, and the Online News Association.

Japanese general election, 2005

He also pledged that he would not visit Yasukuni Shrine; this could noticeably improve foreign relations with South Korea and China.

Karin Sowada

Karin is a researcher in Egyptian archaeology with Macquarie University in Sydney and is a specialist in the foreign relations of Egypt and the Near East during the Bronze Age.

Karl Johann Greith

This last work is an exhaustive study of the foreign relations of the early Irish Church, especially its relations with Rome and its missionary work.

Kenneth Maxwell

Maxwell claims that key Council on Foreign Relations acting at Kissinger's behest put pressure on Foreign Affairs editor, James Hoge, to give the last word in a subsequent exchange about the review to William D. Rogers, a close associate of Kissinger's, rather than to Maxwell; this went against established Foreign Affairs policy.

Klaus Segbers

Segbers is a member of several scientific boards of organizations of international repute including the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) the Gulf Research Center, and the Institute for European Politics.

Mbaye-Jacques Diop

At the Cotonou congress of the African Regroupment Party in July 1958, Diop was a delegate representing the youth of Senegal; he was subsequently the Secretary for Foreign Relations of the National Youth Union of Mali from 1959 to 1960.

Mildred Adams

Her sister-in-law, Dorothy Kenyon, was also a prominent politically active New York attorney who in 1950 ws the first person to appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee investigating charges by Sen. Joseph McCarthy concerning membership in Communist-front organizations.

Model Treaty

The Model Treaty, or the Plan of 1776, was created during the American Revolution and was an idealistic guide for foreign relations and future treaties between the new American government and other nations.

Myron Coureval Fagan

Between 1967 and 1968 Fagan recorded The Illuminati and the Council on Foreign Relations, three LP records allegedly documenting the activities of a secret society known as "The Illuminati".

Neven Mimica

Between 1979 and 1997 he held positions in various governmental bodies related to foreign relations and foreign trade policies, including several counselling positions at embassies in Cairo and Ankara.

Peace at Home, Peace in the World

In Turkish, "Yurtta sulh, cihanda sulh" was first pronounced by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on 20 April 1931 to the public and later accepted as the policy of the Republic of Turkey in foreign relations.

Pete Perry

They interrupted Admiral Michael Mullen, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as he spoke to US Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair, US Senator John Kerry.

Richard Salomon

Richard E. Salomon, Vice-Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations

Rogers Act

With trade becoming an important foreign relations issue in the 1920s, US Representative John Jacob Rogers of Massachusetts sought to complete reforms started by Carr, now Assistant Secretary of State.

Salim Saifullah Khan

Salim Saifullah Khan (Urdu: سلیم سیف اللہ خان), is a Khan (title), or a Chief of Marwat tribe of Lakki Marwat Peshawar Pakistan, is a Pakistani politician and President of a faction of the Pakistan Muslim League and a Senator of Pakistan and Chairman of Pakistan's Senate Foreign Relations, Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan Committee.

Taft–Katsura Agreement

In 1924, historian Tyler Dennett described the memorandum of the conversation as containing "the text of perhaps the most remarkable 'executive agreement' in the history of the foreign relations of the United States".

Unity in diversity

Adélard Godbout, while Premier of Quebec, published an article entitled "Canada: Unity in Diversity" (1943) in the Council on Foreign Relations journal.