The two countries have not shared ambassadorial ties since 2010.
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I won't give ambassadorial posts to wealthy donors or bundlers -- period.
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It is just the fourth ambassadorial pick Mr. Trump has announced.
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Important ambassadorial postings, like in Saudi Arabia and South Korea, are unfilled.
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No longer will the EU's high representative in Washington have ambassadorial status.
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At the same time, 46 ambassadorial nominees are still awaiting Senate confirmation.
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He has had modest success, announcing 16 ambassadorial nominations in August alone.
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Beyond South Korea, there is concern about other ambassadorial posts remaining unfilled.
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It is revealing that China seems startled to find itself under ambassadorial scrutiny.
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Trump said he was "disappointed" and blamed Democrats for derailing her ambassadorial bid.
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"That is a testament to the ambassadorial power of Mexican food," he said.
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Under both Republican and Democratic presidents, top ambassadorial posts routinely go to campaign contributors.
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Mr. Tillerson made the remarks at the ambassadorial residence, which is not presently occupied.
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That said, in matters of ambassadorial nominations, it's the Senate's job to advise and consent.
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Beyond the Iran deal, Mr. Corker's committee holds confirmation hearings on Mr. Trump's ambassadorial appointments.
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AMBASSADORIAL residences are silent witnesses to history, home to generations of diplomats, venues for endless dinners.
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According to AFSA's tracker, Trump's ambassadorial nominees are almost evenly split between career and political appointments.
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None of that makes the fact that Lerner is in Haley's ambassadorial orbit all that unusual.
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Both were responsible posts, although it irked him as a commoner to be denied ambassadorial rank.
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The Duchess wore the dress to The Queen's Birthday Party at the British Ambassadorial Residence in Berlin.
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President Trump will officially announce his picks for two ambassadorial posts tonight, an administration source tells Axios.
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It has failed to fill the majority of the most senior ambassadorial positions in Washington and overseas.
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He is arguably one of the most experienced and qualified ambassadorial nominations Trump has made, thus far.
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Left-leaning Jewish groups in the U.S. quickly condemned Friedman's ambassadorial nomination and vowed to fight the nomination.
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Over the years, retired military partisans have been rewarded with ambassadorial or cabinet positions for their campaign work.
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Senators are not supposed to use the ambassadorial nomination process as part of a war on the president.
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Of about 200 ambassadorial posts, 77 remain "vacant," according to a May 10 document from the State Department.
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In September, the U.S. and Belarus announced they would resume ambassadorial relations for the first time since 2008.
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I can't say that I feel any pressure to be ambassadorial — my job is to break your heart.
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Tom Udall detailed many of the insults Friedman had hurled in print before being selected for the ambassadorial role.
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A caustic ambassadorial cable describing the sybaritic lifestyle of the Tunisian presidential family may have sparked the Arab Spring.
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A spokeswoman for the U.S. embassy in Moscow said his attendance was a routine part of his ambassadorial duties.
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Going forward, relevant committees will have to consider at least one minority candidate for every ambassadorial opening, Tillerson said.
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In September, the United States and Belarus announced they would resume ambassadorial relations for the first time since 2008.
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Her relocation could mean paid ambassadorial agreements with fashion brands — or even her own collection — further down the line.
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Dozens of posts remain unfilled, according to a tally of ambassadorial nominations kept by the American Foreign Service Association.
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Mr. Friedman is a staunch opponent of basic tenets of Washington's longstanding approach to much of the ambassadorial portfolio.
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There are 68 ambassadorial vacancies, not including international organizations, according to a tracker from the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA).
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There's a long tradition of presidents in both parties nominating some of their richest financial supporters to plum ambassadorial posts.
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"I'll make my ambassadorial appointments based on only one thing: finding the most qualified person for the job," she wrote.
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In a Radio New Zealand interview soon after taking up the ambassadorial post, he defended Mr. Trump's record with women.
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Her ambassadorial security guards used to jostle to avoid running with her through Central Park and the New York countryside.
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From Brussels, Mr. Tillerson heads to Vienna, where three ambassadorial jobs — to Austria and two European bodies — also remain unfilled.
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My involvement in issues concerning Ukraine, while a small part of my overall portfolio, was nevertheless central to my ambassadorial responsibilities.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Former Argentina captain Diego Maradona has been handed an ambassadorial role by the game's global governing body FIFA.
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But beyond those workaday diplomatic skills, the vice-president brings a talent that takes him into the realm of ambassadorial greatness.
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Ronald Neumann, now president of the American Academy of Diplomacy, who went through the nominating process three times for ambassadorial posts.
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Few people could take familiar tunes and overlay them with soft, ambassadorial lines about unity and global fraternity like these two.
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Many senior positions on arms control and Asia policy, as well as ambassadorial posts in Asia, remain unfilled, further complicating matters.
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Trump has made 11 nominations for ambassadorial positions, five of which have been confirmed, according to the American Foreign Service Association.
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"I won't give ambassadorial posts to wealthy donors or bundlers — period," she continued, calling on other candidates to promise the same.
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Uniqlo's current ambassadorial lineup includes the tennis player Kei Nishikori, the wheelchair tennis star Shingo Kunieda and the golfer Adam Scott.
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He assumed the post in 19883, and the Bushes moved into the ambassadorial suite of the Waldorf Towers in New York.
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For its part, the Senate should demand that the president send for ambassadorial confirmation a substantially higher number of career officers.
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Like all of my political Ambassadorial colleagues, I am an appointee of the President and serve at the pleasure of the President.
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The big thing he wanted to get across today was that Xiaomi's attendance at Mobile World Congress is mostly an ambassadorial mission.
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We tried to ensure that our designs bridged her ambassadorial role for her own country and also paid respect to each destination.
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He graduated from the University of Southern California, and was a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial scholar at Saint-Petersburg State University in Russia.
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My mother was a Czechoslovak Jew who was deported to Auschwitz by the same Nazi regime that once occupied my ambassadorial home.
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Mr. Tillerson has done little beyond proposing a lone deputy and acceding to a handful of ambassadorial nominations by the White House.
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And KT McFarland, who joined the staff under fired adviser Michael Flynn, is said to have been offered an ambassadorial posting in Singapore.
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But the training delay reflects the slow pace with which Trump is filling the ambassadorial positions, which typically are rewards to key supporters.
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Mr. Léopold-Metzger described Mr. Hu as a "game changer" and said that his ambassadorial role would be publicized primarily through digital media.
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The royal court's social calendar demanded clothes possessing 19th-century levels of grandeur: Vast crinoline gowns were prerequisites for debutante and ambassadorial balls.
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Elizabeth Warren, one of the top Democrats seeking her party's nomination, has promised not to give ambassadorial posts to wealthy donors or bundlers.
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When he was confirmed, all five of the black career Foreign Service officers who had been elevated to ambassadorial rank were assigned to Africa.
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Scoville's paper is based on more than 1,900 certificates of competency — documents the president is legally required provide to Congress for each ambassadorial appointment.
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Asked if Nance is Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's first choice for the ambassadorial role, the State Department referred POLITICO to the White House.
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Still, the event was a milestone for her and David, who served on the British Fashion Council this year as ambassadorial president of the awards.
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In anticipation of his ambassadorial role Mr Brownback started to hand responsibilities to his likely successor, Jeff Colyer, a plastic surgeon who is lieutenant-governor.
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It was the name of a man who was recalled to Washington hastily and whose career would falter on his way to an ambassadorial post.
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In addition, Trump has yet to nominate candidates for ambassadorial posts in 85003 nations, including Austria, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, Pakistan, South Africa, Singapore and Sweden.
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Another recent trend — no doubt following an example of a regrettable American practice — has been to increase political appointments in ambassadorial and other diplomatic posts.
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Mr. Lukens, Mr. Rank, and Ms. Smith have all spent decades in the Foreign Service, rising to posts at or close to the ambassadorial level.
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As of now, nearly 45 percent of his ambassadorial picks — people who have been confirmed or are awaiting confirmation — are political appointees, one database shows.
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Their experience comes across as a state of constant, paranoid alertness; even little things, like a dropped teacup at an ambassadorial function, freak them out.
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It's February, two days after her fall 2018 show, where she officially relinquished her post as creative director, moving into an ambassadorial role at her company.
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"I'm very keen for him to carve out some space to help us to develop the sport and not just in an ambassadorial role," Coe said.
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Jacobson, the ambassadorial post was the culmination of a career largely centered in Washington, where she was most recently the assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs.
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Grenell, a former State Department official and communications executive, has been a Trump confidant and ad hoc adviser on issues beyond his ambassadorial work in Berlin.
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He played an alien ambassadorial aide in "Babylon 5," which ran on TNT from 1994 to 1998, and found roles on shows like "Have Faith" on ABC.
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While both former president's favored political nominees in those early months, they had a higher proportion of career nominees than Trump currently has for his ambassadorial picks.
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"He's the first serious, heavy-hitting U.S. ambassadorial appointment here since Marshall Green came in 1973," said James Curran, a history professor at the University of Sydney.
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A career in the foreign service followed, including ambassadorial roles in the 1960s and 70s during Algeria's post-independence diplomatic heyday, when a youthful Bouteflika was foreign minister.
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For now, Djokovic has a bronze medal in singles from 2008, but with his ambassadorial role in Serbia and his longtime commitment to Davis Cup, he craves more.
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He even teaches an acting class and has taken on an official ambassadorial role for Soba, the sober-living facility he says might be his home for life.
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Ira Shapiro is a former Senate staffer, a Clinton administration trade official with ambassadorial rank, and the author of Broken: Can the Senate Save Itself and the Country?
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She graduated with honors in Chinese history from Stanford and from 2002 to 2004 was a Rotary Ambassadorial scholar at National Taiwan University, where she studied Chinese language.
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Mercedes said Rosberg had accepted an ambassadorial role with the team for 2017, with his first commitment an appearance with Hamilton on Tuesday for watch sponsor IWC Schaffhausen.
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He became Ford's trade representative, with cabinet and ambassadorial rank, from 0003 to 1977, when the Republicans surrendered the White House to the Democrats and President Jimmy Carter.
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The best example, they said, was the sixty-six special envoys and representatives, created at various times by Congress and the White House—essentially, senior diplomats given ambassadorial rank.
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He needs to herd cats in the Senate for his ambassadorial nominee, and he needs to work with the U.S. Trade Representative to craft a reasonable and fair approach.
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Alongside NATO, State also has Ambassadorial level missions to the EU, the Office of Security Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), as well as the numerous international organizations in Geneva, Switzerland.
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In addition to experience in the Foreign Service, Scoville compares presidents' ambassadorial appointees by how familiar they are with their host countries, an area where Trump's ambassadors fare somewhat better.
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In his testimony last week, Tillerson estimated that the administration had chosen nominees for about half of the approximately 70 open ambassadorial positions, and evaluations are underway for the rest.
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Sixty-four percent of Trump's ambassadorial nominees so far are white males, 85033 percent more than the ambassadors appointed during the Obama administration, according to the American Foreign Service Association.
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The president of the United States, as the country's primary representative abroad, commander of the armed forces, and overseer of all ambassadorial relations, has extraordinary power to shape global affairs.
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Indeed, the U.S. does not even appoint a senior-level individual to the Minsk Group — not even at the ambassadorial level — so it clearly does not rate highly in Washington.
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Ami Bera, a Democrat from California, introduced legislation that would require at least 70% of a president's ambassadorial appointments to come from the ranks of career Foreign Service officers and civil servants.
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My family felt the raw fear of a near death experience, when my ambassadorial residence in Phnom Penh was hit by a rocket and ringed in automatic weapons fire for two hours.
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His appointment as the envoy to the European Union was in keeping with the traditional, swampy rules of how ambassadorial plums are doled out — preferably somewhere nice, maybe exotic, definitely not dangerous.
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My family and I narrowly missed being harmed or killed when my ambassadorial residence in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, was hit by a rocket and ringed in automatic weapons fire.
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The ambassadorial nomination of a former top national security adviser to President Donald Trump has stalled in the Senate, following a report that she may have misled lawmakers about contacts with the Russians.
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Since the Eisenhower administration, roughly 703 percent of ambassadorial nominees have been political appointees; the remaining 70 percent have drawn from the ranks of the senior Foreign Service Officers in the State Department.
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Three of those new governors — South Carolina's Henry McMaster (R), Iowa's Kim Reynolds (R) and Kansas's Jeff Colyer (R) — took office after their predecessors quit to take ambassadorial jobs in the Trump administration.
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Though he made it a point of downplaying his ambassadorial role when speaking to the press, he privately hoped that his trip would be something of a peacemaking expedition between the two enemy nations.
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He represents prospective political appointees requiring Senate confirmation through the vetting process including Cabinet and sub-Cabinet members, administrators and commissioners of various agencies, and numerous ambassadorial appointees in both Democratic and Republican administrations.
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Antonio Graziadei, a Franciscan friar who was both an astrologer and an ambassador, is portrayed in a medal alongside Apollo, Diana, the Muses, and Mercury — figures who reinforce his erudition and his ambassadorial authority.
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That McDaniel was willing to brazenly hit up Manchester for half a million bucks while his ambassadorial nomination hung in the balance indicates that for her committee, the ends continue to justify the means.
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However, a confirmation hearing for Bill Barr, Trump's nominee for attorney general, was held during the shutdown and last week a list of ambassadorial choices and nominees for other State Department roles was officially submitted.
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Ric: my advice, after a long ambassadorial career: explain your own country's policies, and lobby the host country - but never tell the host country what to do, if you want to stay out of trouble.
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Current and former career diplomats said Trump has handed far too many ambassadorial posts to unqualified candidates, many of whom were political donors with thin diplomatic resumes and little respect for the U.S. Foreign Service.
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According to the database jointly maintained by the Partnership for Public Service and the Post, which is not exhaustive but is instead a sampling of confirmation-required jobs, Trump has just five formal ambassadorial nominations pending.
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"In his brand-ambassadorial capacity, he posts photos and videos of himself, often performing skits, to market an aspirational lifestyle that revolves around firearms, red meat and his hot wife, Noelle," reporter Simon van Zuylen-Wood writes.
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Mr. Abdullah, they said, thought Mr. Ghani had increasingly taken advantage of his concessions to the point that he no longer even consulted him on major appointments, like the Civil Service reform chief or important ambassadorial postings.
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Typically, the position of US ambassador to the United Nations goes to individuals with significantly more diplomatic and international experience, while plumb ambassadorial posts in capitals such as Ottawa, London and Paris are reserved for loyal donors.
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The NATO-Russia Council will meet again at ambassadorial level in Brussels next week following the NATO summit in Warsaw in which Western leaders will cement a new deterrent against what they say is Russian aggression in Ukraine.
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Evans, who is the 688th lord mayor which is an ambassadorial role for the small financial area known as the City of London, said Britain's EU membership had been "a great factor for inward investment" into the country.
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China points to a different part of the convention, which stipulates that diplomats should not interfere in the internal affairs of the host country, to support its claim that Canada violated international law in organising the ambassadorial letter.
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"Football is king in France, at least for four more years," said Jean van de Velde, who in 1999 became the first Frenchman to take part in the Ryder Cup and is playing an ambassadorial role this time.
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WASHINGTON — K. T. McFarland, who was a deputy national security adviser in the Trump administration and then was picked to serve as ambassador to Singapore, withdrew her ambassadorial nomination on Friday after it had stalled in the Senate.
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Key U.S. ambassadorial posts around the world remain vacant but the administration seems to have recognized that not having a fully empowered envoy in the U.S. seat at the U.N. table does more harm than good to American interests.
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The White House has not said which house the president and his family plan to move to, but their new home will be in walking distance of the ambassadorial residences of Britain, the European Union, France, Iceland and Portugal.
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A new half-in, half-out of the firm arrangement would not necessarily put a stop to those earnings and endorsements for Britain and its businesses; if anything, extensive ambassadorial work at home and abroad could even increase them.
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The way Wang sees it, Panda Express has thus had to assume something of an ambassadorial role in certain pockets of the country, serving as a gateway into Chinese cooking for Americans living in enclaves that present few other options.
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Even with Martin largely out of the game since finishing the 2015-16 season with San Antonio, apart from some part-time ambassadorial work he has done for the league office, chatter stemming from all things Ball is difficult to avoid.
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Nevertheless, his promise that the United States would finally fill an ambassadorial post left empty for more than a decade has given new energy to Mr. Lukashenko's resistance to what he has repeatedly denounced as Russian pressure to surrender Belarus's sovereignty.
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Combatant commanders should still have a Senior Foreign Service Officer as a POLAD, ideally one between ambassadorial appointments, but many lower level commanders would not only be able to make do with an Embassy officer, they would do better in such an arrangement.
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The longest-pending ambassadorial nominee is K.T. McFarland, Trump's pick as ambassador to Singapore, who is facing a hold on her nomination until she addresses questions about her knowledge of communications between former national security adviser Michael Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
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In brief remarks from the stage, she also showed herself to be a natural communicator, brimming with enthusiasm and humor: a good choice for this orchestra, which takes its ambassadorial role seriously with concert series offered across the state and numerous outreach initiatives.
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It will not be able to do so as long as a third of ambassadorial appointments, and senior positions in the department, are filled by political appointees of often dubious qualifications and little or no interest in the welfare of the Foreign Service.
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The U.S. ambassadors appointed by President Trump have given more financial support to his election than any cohort of ambassadors in recent history, even as they demonstrated fewer qualifications for the job, according to a new study of ambassadorial appointments over the last three decades.
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"It is pretty clear that this is not ambassadorial, but this is being understood as political interference rather than voicing someone's perspectives," Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, the vice president at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Berlin, told The Hill in an interview.
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The ambassadorial Jaguar in which he rode to the European Council on Wednesday morning bearing Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit notification was certainly more comfortable than the warhorse that brought the Duke of Wellington's messenger to the city bearing news of victory at nearby Waterloo in 1815.
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Some estimates have put the total cost of the deal to P.S.G.'s Qatari owners at more than half a billion dollars, including various image rights allowances and, according to at least one report, a possible ambassadorial role for Neymar during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
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But one thing the last two decades reveal is that US presidents and Israeli prime ministers have a strong tendency to conduct business outside of the ambassadorial channels and to identify senior officials in Washington and Jerusalem to serve as a secondary channel, or to do business themselves.
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"The ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran will continue to be present in Kuwait and the embassy will be active at the ambassadorial level, and there is no problem in this regard," Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency.
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It might make sense, in the abstract, for McMaster to talk about "devolving" authority to the State Department, but there essentially was no State Department anymore: under the absentee leadership of Tillerson, six of the top nine positions at the department were empty, and numerous critical ambassadorial posts remained unfilled.
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One of the longest-pending ambassadorial nominees is K.T. McFarland, Trump's pick as ambassador to Singapore, who is facing an uphill battle to be confirmed as she faces tough questions about her knowledge of communications between former national security adviser Michael Flynn and former Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak.
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Obama continued to fuse the cultural meanings and political significances of her clothing as she gave several ambassadorial nods to a guest country's talent including Italy (Italy-born designer Donatella Versace), India (Indian-American designer Naeem Khan), South Korea (Korean-American designer Doo-Ri Chung), and Japan (Japan-born designer Tadashi Shoji).
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Grenell's remarks brought a furious response from Wolfgang Ischinger, the former German ambassador to Britain and the US. Ric: my advice, after a long ambassadorial career: explain your own country's policies, and lobby the host country - but never tell the host country what to do, if you want to stay out of trouble.
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Just months into the UFC's ownership under Emanuel's WME agency, the promotion's new direction has angered some of the sport's rabid fanbase—with a series of staff and further cost-cutting exercises changing both the tone and, quite literally, the face of the UFC with Matt Hughes and Chuck Liddell released from their ambassadorial roles.
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The friction came into view this week after Representative Steve Stivers of Ohio, the National Republican Congressional Committee chairman, told The New York Times that he had lobbied the White House to appoint some House Democrats from Republican-leaning districts to the cabinet or ambassadorial posts, in hopes that the party could flip the seats.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE on Monday announced his intent to nominate two people for ambassadorial positions.
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Uptown is multifaceted — it seeks to restore some of the sheen to the term "uptown" in reference to Harlem, which almost a century ago was a mecca for literary, visual, and performing arts; announce the presence of a prominent institutional agent in the district's art ecology; and, perhaps most crucially, serve a kind of ambassadorial function for the university.
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Her choice of an Atelier Versace gown for the Italy state dinner was not only a nice bit of sartorial diplomacy — Versace being an Italian success story, a company often touted as a candidate for a public offering — but, coming less than a week after her magnetic speech in New Hampshire on women and respect, it went far beyond being simply an ambassadorial nod to a guest country's talent and made a powerful subliminal statement.
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