Hints and tips:
...One is Daphne Park, an MI6 agent who arrived undercover in Leopoldville, now Kinshasa, as the first consul at the British embassy....
...Unlike his predecessors, he did not appoint a special envoy for Middle East peace, and he has yet to nominate an ambassador to Israel or assign a consul general to the Palestinian Authority....
...Kurt Tong, who served as US consul general in Hong Kong until last year, said it was odd there was not more debate inside the administration given the importance of the US-China relationship....
...After the Trump-Xi meeting at the G20, the Department of State told Kurt Tong, the departing US consul-general in Hong Kong, to remove several critical comments about China from his final speech in the Asian...
...And a general massacre of cats and dogs was no help at all....
...Following the Trump-Xi meeting, the state department told Kurt Tong, the departing US consul general in Hong Kong, to remove several critical comments about China from his final speech in the Asian financial...
...The third was the sanctity of freedom of the press and all forms of expressed opinion; a principle most majestically articulated in John Milton’s Areopagitica....
...I asked a European consul general in Jerusalem if that was true. Had they “given up”? To my surprise he said yes: “that assessment is entirely fair”....
...The second property is worth around $12m, and in a more exclusive neighbourhood just several doors down from the US consul general’s official residence....
...Mr Kim’s appointment was announced by Seoul on Sunday as part of a reshuffle of 19 ambassadors and four consuls general....
...Yeah, one minister said to me that this appointment was rather like Caligula appointing his horse as a consul as one of his last acts as emperor....
...But when John Veroneau, a top trade lawyer in the administration of George W Bush, uncovered the statute recently he found it was still active and available for use....
...Then, at last, he was given the more congenial position of consul in Damascus in his beloved east....
...Beijing and its representatives in Hong Kong have in the recent past criticised the US and UK consuls general for making comments about the future of democracy....
...By the time of his appointment as war secretary, Kitchener had already served as consul-general in Egypt and commanded the army in India....
...The fraught diplomatic stand-off between the US and India appeared to have reached some sort of detente on Thursday when the deputy consul general of India in New York, arrested in the US for falsely acquiring...
...Salman Khurshid, India’s foreign minister, said on Thursday that the charges against Devyani Khobragade, India’s deputy consul-general in New York, should be “withdrawn” to put relations between the US and...
...Mr Moniz’s trip is the most high-profile casualty in an increasingly bitter spat over the treatment of Devyani Khobragade, India’s deputy consul general in New York....
...Ms Khobragade, India’s deputy consul general in New York, was arrested in the US in mid-December on suspicion of lying to officials about how much she was paying a maid, who had accompanied her from India...
...“We’re showing American people that we’re not ‘all work,’” Itaru Umezu, deputy consul-general and bandleader, told The New Yorker. “We know we’re pretty weird,” added a fellow band member. 2....
...And just this month, Turkey upgraded its consul general in Jerusalem to the status of ambassador to the yet-to-be established Palestinian state....
...This adviser, Bea Camp, was a former consul-general to Shanghai....
...Muhtar Kent, 60, was born in New York, where his father was Turkish consul general....
...Eulogised by some UK critics, John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses is a meditation on the immigrant experience in Britain....
...Few postings are more sought after than New York, where I understand that Danny Lopez, a former head of marketing at UK Trade & Investment, is in pole position to become Britain’s next consul-general....
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