Turkey summoned Germany's chargé d'affaires in Ankara to explain why.
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Bill Taylor, Chargé d'Affaires at the US Embassy in Ukraine
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Bill Taylor, the chargé d'affaires at the US's embassy in Ukraine.
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The difference between an ambassador and a chargé d'affaires has been explained.
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Thomas Goldberger currently serves as chargé d'affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.
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EST: Vice President Pence meets with Carlos Alfredo Vecchio, the Chargé d'Affaires of Venezuela.
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U.S. chargé d'affaires Theodore Allegra said the Council was ignoring the real culprit: Hamas.
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Among those who returned to Washington was Roxanne Cabral, the chargé d'affaires in Panama.
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The US chargé d'affaires to Venezuela has not responded to a request for comment.
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Taylor, the chargé d'affaires for Ukraine, will be up first — and that's not by coincidence.
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Wednesday's release was the transcript of William Taylor, who serves as the chargé d'affaires for Ukraine.
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Jo Song Gil, Pyongyang's chargé d'affaires in Rome, disappeared along with his wife in early November.
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He served as chargé d'affaires at the embassy in Kyiv from June 2019 until January 2020.
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This time it was Ambassador Bill Taylor, the chargé d'affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine.
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The official American representative was D. Brent Hardt, chargé d'affaires at the United States Embassy in Paris.
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The United States was represented by Philip S. Kosnett, the chargé d'affaires at its embassy in Ankara.
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The Brazilian Embassy in Washington said on Friday that Brazilian Chargé d'Affaires Nestor Forster tested positive for coronavirus.
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Nestor Forster, Brazil's chargé d'affaires in Washington, tested positive for coronavirus on Friday, according to the Brazilian Embassy.
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William Taylor, chargé d'affaires for Ukraine William Taylor is the most high-profile witness for Democrats this week.
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One million people protested in front of the office of the British chargé d'affaires in Beijing in June.
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"Raúl always has had the air of a chargé d'affaires rather than an ambassador," says a diplomat in Havana.
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US State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said the department had summoned the Filipino chargé d'affaires to "clarify" Duterte's remarks.
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On March 21st the chargé d'affaires at China's embassy in Jakarta was hauled in to receive a stiff protest.
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He was previously Afghanistan's Deputy Assistant National Security Advisor, as well as Afghan Chargé d'Affaires to the United States.
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Ambassador S.Kislyak has concluded his assignment in Washington, DCMinister-Counselor D.Gonchar will act as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim pic.twitter.
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Holmes said he learned this from conversations with William Taylor, the chargé d'affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine.
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The American chargé d'affaires tried to use his Arabic to intercede with a member of the Saudi Royal Guard.
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Basañez's predecessor's term was a brief seven months, but as a chargé d'affaires — a placeholder after the resignation of Amb.
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That individual is Nestor Forster, Brazil's chargé d'affaires in Washington, who tested positive on Friday, according to the Brazilian Embassy.
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Instead, the State Department appointed a skilled but retired place-holder, Ross Wilson, to serve as the embassy's chargé d'affaires.
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The third infected person was Brazil's Chargé d'Affaires Ambassador Nestor Forster, which the Brazilian embassy in the US announced Friday.
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Though the United States has an ambassador in India, it has no designated ambassador to Pakistan (only a chargé d'affaires).
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The delay allowed Taylor, the US chargé d'affaires in Ukraine, to register his concerns about injecting politics into US-Ukraine ties.
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Because I was appointed by the Secretary but not reconfirmed by the Senate, my official position was Chargé d'Affaires ad interim.
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Washington ignored the O.A.S. findings, with the American chargé d'affaires offering only tepid statements calling on all sides to behave peacefully.
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Heide B. Fulton, the chargé d'affaires, currently the highest-ranking American diplomat in Honduras, asked the Honduran people to be calm.
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William "Bill" Taylor is the current US chargé d'affaires for Ukraine — basically the acting ambassador at the US embassy in Kyiv.
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William Taylor's official title is chargé d'affaires of the US embassy in Kyiv, making him currently the top US diplomat there.
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This was confirmed when Congress released text messages between Volker, Sondland, and the US's chargé d'affaires in Ukraine, Bill Taylor, last week.
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A day later, the Sudanese general was photographed exchanging a hearty handshake with the United States' chargé d'affaires in Khartoum, Steven Koutsis.
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After Marie Yovanovitch was recalled from that same post earlier this year, Taylor was tapped to serve as chargé d'affaires for Ukraine.
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But he also told that other official — William Taylor, the U.S. chargé d'affaires in Ukraine — to stop discussing the matter via text.
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This year, Uzra Zeya, the U.S. chargé d'affaires, made a short, sober speech that earned her the gratitude of my fellow diners.
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The US has been without a permanent ambassador to Seoul since Trump assumed office with the position filled by the chargé d'affaires.
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In early 2003, Ann Wright, then the chargé d'affaires in Mongolia, wrote a dissent channel message objecting to a prospective invasion of Iraq.
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The highest-ranking US official in the country is currently Chargé d'Affaires Jessye Lapenn, who has been serving in the post since December 2016.
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" Wu Haitao, chargé d'affaires of China's Permanent Mission to the United Nations, said the rebuke was "contrary to the facts and fraught with prejudice.
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Wu Haitao, chargé d'affaires of China's Permanent Mission to the United Nations, said the rebuke was "contrary to the facts and fraught with prejudice".
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The Italians, disgusted with the French position, summoned France's chargé d'affaires in Rome on Wednesday, an unusual diplomatic move between two usually friendly neighbors.
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Following the ousting of U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch earlier this year, Taylor was tapped to serve as chargé d'affaires for Ukraine. Rep.
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"Ambassador S.Kislyak has concluded his assignment in Washington, DC Minister-Counselor D.Gonchar will act as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim," the embassy wrote on Twitter.
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Washington has had no ambassador in South Africa since Patrick Gaspard left in December 2016, with its mission being overseen by a chargé d'affaires.
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On Thursday, the chargé d'affaires in the American Embassy, Heide B. Fulton, traveled to the border with Guatemala to tape a plea to migrants.
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ONE AFTERNOON in February a man knocked on the door of the North Korean embassy in Madrid and asked to speak to the chargé d'affaires.
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The US chargé d'affaires from the embassy in Berlin came to the meeting in Washington and notes from the meeting were shared through regular channels.
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"Brazil's Chargé d'Affaires Ambassador Nestor Forster has learned tonight that he has tested positive for Covid-19," the Brazilian embassy in the US announced Friday.
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Democrats are hoping to receive powerful testimony from William Taylor, a career foreign service official who has worked as chargé d'affaires for Ukraine since June.
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A respected career foreign service officer, Taylor has been the chargé d'affaires of the US Embassy in Ukraine since YOVANOVITCH was recalled in late April.
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Vincent Brooks, commander of United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command and US Forces Korea; Chargé d'Affaires at the US Embassy Seoul Mark Knapper; and Sgt.
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Taylor plans to return to post Taylor, as the US chargé d'affaires in Ukraine, was in a difficult and delicate position testifying Tuesday, the source said.
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In a rare and hastily called press conference Thursday, Pak Myong Ho, the chargé d'affaires at the North Korean embassy in Beijing, also rebuffed Wang's proposal.
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Later, Jayasuriya met U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Robert Hilton at parliament and discussed the stand-off and reconvening parliament, a source privy to the meeting told Reuters.
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The two expelled diplomats are the chargé d'affaires of the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C., and the deputy consul general of the Venezuelan consulate in Houston.
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Jeffrey Hovenier, the American chargé d'affaires in Turkey, posted on Twitter on Monday that he had visited Mr. Brunson and his wife, Norine, at their home.
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Separately, Democrats are also now interested in deposing Taylor, the U.S. chargé d'affaires of Ukraine, who had threatened last month to quit over the Ukraine affair.
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In October, after accusing Iran of shipping weapons to the island, Bahrain recalled its ambassador in Tehran and expelled the Iranian chargé d'affaires in its capital, Manama.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's government will declare Venezuela's chargé d'affaires persona non-grata, stripping him of his diplomatic status, Brazil's foreign affairs ministry told Reuters on Tuesday.
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The position has been open since Trump took office in January 2017 and its responsibilities have been handled for nearly 85033 months by Chargé d'Affaires Marc Knapper.
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Brazil's Chargé d'Affaires Ambassador Nestor Forster became the third person who visited Mar-a-Lago to test positive for the novel coronavirus, the embassy announced Friday night.
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The diplomats returning to Washington are Robin Bernstein, ambassador to the Dominican Republic; Jean Manes, ambassador to El Salvador; and Roxanne Cabral, the chargé d'affaires in Panama.
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" In one of those exchanges, William Taylor, the chargé d'affaires for Ukraine, said "I think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign.
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Taylor plans to turn over his responsibilities as chargé d'affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv to the current deputy chief of mission, Kristina Kvien, on Jan.
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The US has not had an ambassador to Venezuela since 2010, but Robinson served as the mission's Chargé D'Affaires -- a position that is akin to an acting ambassadorship.
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U.S. chargé d'affaires Mark Cassayre told China to "immediately release the hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of individuals" being detained in for their faith, The Washington Post reported.
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Berhane G. Solomon, the chargé d'affaires at the Eritrean Embassy in Washington, D.C., complained that the international community has done nothing to compel Ethiopia to withdraw its troops.
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House Democrats left the open hearing buzzing about the new developments provided by William Taylor, U.S. chargé d'affaires for Ukraine, during his nearly five-hour appearance on Capitol Hill.
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The messages are between Sondland, Bill Taylor, Chargé d'Affaires at the US Embassy in Ukraine, Kurt Volker, former US special envoy to Ukraine, and aids to the Ukrainian president.
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The press secretary for Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Brazil's chargé d'affaires in Washington both tested positive for coronavirus, days after they met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
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Manjurul Karim Khan Chowdhury, director general for Southeast Asia for the Foreign Ministry, issued the protest on Wednesday to Aung Myint, chargé d'affaires of the Myanmar Embassy in Dhaka.
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Friends said Mr. Rank, who became chargé d'affaires in Beijing in January, was deeply frustrated by the general direction of American policy toward China, but particularly about climate change.
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The Trump administration has endorsed the O.A.S. measures as a way to "reach a credible conclusion," the United States chargé d'affaires, Heide B. Fulton, told local reporters last week.
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The diplomats are the chargé d'affaires of the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington and the deputy consul general of the Venezuelan consulate in Houston, the State Department said in a statement.
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The diplomats are the chargé d'affaires of the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington and the deputy consul general of the Venezuelan consulate in Houston, the State Department said in a statement.
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"There are still independent and opposition media outlets here that are able to practise journalism with broad editorial freedom," Chargé d'Affaires David Kostelancik said last month at a journalism conference.
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David Rank, who was serving as chargé d'affaires (Acting U.S. Ambassador) in China, resigned from his post over Trump's decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate pact.
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The envoys are the chargé d'affaires of the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C., and the deputy consul general of the Venezuelan consulate in Houston, the department said in a statement.
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William Taylor, the chargé d'affaires for Ukraine, and George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs, testified for more than five hours before Schiff's panel.
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"We are disappointed in the results of today's hearing," Philip Kosnett, chargé d'affaires and head of mission at the United States Embassy in Turkey, said outside court after the hearing.
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As chargé d'affaires, he worked successfully behind the scenes to negotiate a coalition government between the Royal Lao government and the insurgent Communist Pathet Lao, averting more bloodshed in Laos.
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Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Qatar Ryan Gliha is expected to serve as "Chargé D'Affaires ad interim" until a new ambassador is nominated, confirmed, and sworn in.
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Seoul (CNN)A former North Korean diplomat who defected in 2016 published an open letter Saturday to Pyongyang's "missing" chargé d'affaires to Italy, Jo Song Gil, suggesting he move to Seoul.
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"I think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign," said Bill Taylor, the chargé d'affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine's capital, Kiev, in a Sept.
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"This action is to reciprocate the Maduro regime's decision to declare the Chargé d'Affaires and Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Caracas personae non grata," the State Department said.
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" Creamer, who served as chargé d'affaires, says the embassy "has done a very good job," while recognizing the limitations of caretaker ambassadors, mainly because "they don't have the same level of access.
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Mexican officials said they were told of the American decision on Thursday morning in letters from the Department of Homeland Security and the United States chargé d'affaires in Mexico, John S. Creamer.
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"These type of statements do not help in enforcing the relationship between Haiti and the US." The ambassador said the Haitian government had summoned the US chargé d'affaires to clarify the remarks.
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One of those diplomats, William Taylor, the U.S. chargé d'affaires in Ukraine, expressed concerns last month that Trump was crossing a line by dangling military aid to pressure Zelensky for political favors.
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"I don't think that's realistic at all," said John Koenig, who served as chargé d'affaires ad interim and deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin from 2006 to 2009.
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"Basically, the Moscow embassy has been at the service of the relatives of whoever has led the country," said Kamal Nabizada, an Afghan businessman who once served as chargé d'affaires in Moscow.
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Rumors initially swirled since last month that Harris could be chosen to serve as the ambassador to South Korea – a position that has been handled for 16 months by Chargé d'Affaires Marc Knapper.
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The press secretary for Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Brazil's chargé d'affaires in Washington both tested positive for coronavirus this week, days after they met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.
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The United States chargé d'affaires Mark Cassayre demanded that China "abolish all forms of arbitrary detention" for Uighurs and other Muslims minorities, and that China release the "possibly millions" of individuals detained there.
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Mexican officials say they were told of the latest American decision on Thursday morning in letters from the Department of Homeland Security and the United States chargé d'affaires in Mexico, John S. Creamer.
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And on Wednesday, the US special envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, and the top US diplomat in Saudi Arabia, chargé d'affaires Christopher Henzel, met in Riyadh with Prince Mohammed to discuss Afghanistan strategy.
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She declined to provide a preview of what Morrison plans on telling investigators, though he is set to support testimony from William Taylor, who serves as the chargé d'affaires for Ukraine, according to CNN.
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The expulsions come in response to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's decision on Tuesday to expel the chargé d'affaires and deputy chief of mission of the U.S. Embassy in Caracas for "conspiring" against his government.
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State Department Spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the top US diplomat in Saudi Arabia, Chargé D'Affaires Christopher Henzel, was able to meet with Hariri Wednesday, but she could not say where the meeting took place.
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A source familiar with the matter confirmed Taylor, who has served as chargé d'affaires for Ukraine since June, is set to testify on Tuesday, though another person told The Hill the appearance is tentative.
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William Taylor, a career foreign service official who has served as chargé d'affaires for Ukraine since June, is expected to testify Tuesday; and Laura Cooper, a top Pentagon official, is expected to testify Wednesday.
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William Taylor, a career foreign service official who has served as chargé d'affaires for Ukraine since June, is expected to testify Tuesday; and Laura Cooper, a top Pentagon official, is expected to testify Wednesday.
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Mexican chargé d'affaires Eleazar Velasco said Brazil is uniquely positioned to expand agricultural commodity sales to Mexico if trade with the United States is disrupted because it is closer than other potential suppliers like Australia.
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"This action is to reciprocate the Maduro regime's decision to declare the Chargé d'Affaires and Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Caracas personae non grata," the State Department said in a statement.
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Just 10 days later, Danylyuk relayed his concerns about Ukraine being used as a pawn in Trump's reelection campaign to US Chargé d'Affaires for Ukraine Bill Taylor and US special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker.
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He shared a dinner table with another diplomat, Brazilian Chargé d'Affaires Nestor Forster, whose symptoms appeared later in the week and who tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday morning, according to Trump's physician, Sean Conley.
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"We are impressed and inspired by the life-changing impact on individuals and communities that we have witnessed in our work with Maryam," said Stephanie Miley, the chargé d'affaires at the United States Embassy in Morocco.
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On Monday, the chargé d'affaires at the American Embassy in Beijing, David H. Rank, announced his resignation after telling his staff he could not defend the Trump administration's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord.
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When the Trump administration forced out Marie L. Yovanovitch, the former ambassador, before her term was up, Mr. Taylor was sent to be the chargé d'affaires, the No. 2 post in an embassy, and acting ambassador.
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Lawrence Gumbiner replaces the previous chargé d'affaires Scott Hamilton, who left Havana earlier this month after Washington ordered many U.S. officials to leave the embassy after personnel reported what seemed to be sonic attacks, Reuters reported.
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Mr. Carvajal said he did not know the identity of the Hezbollah operative, but he identified the diplomat as Ghazi Nasr al-Din, a former chargé d'affaires in the Venezuelan Embassy in Damascus, the Syrian capital.
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Khan, Britain's most prominent Muslim politician, will make his comments at a meeting of foreign dignitaries, including U.S. chargé d'affaires Lewis Lukens and ambassadors from most of the countries affected by the ban, the mayor's office said.
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Bill Taylor, a career diplomat, served as the US ambassador to Ukraine under George W. Bush's administration from 2006 to 2009, and was appointed as the chargé d'affaires for the US embassy in Ukraine earlier this year.
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William Taylor, the chargé d'affaires for Ukraine, testified on Wednesday that one of his staffers had overheard Trump asking Sondland about the "investigations" in a July phone call, a new piece of evidence Democrats immediately seized on.
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In a televised address, Mr. Maduro gave the diplomats, Todd D. Robinson, who is the United States Embassy's chargé d'affaires, and Mr. Robinson's No. 2, Brian Naranjo, 48 hours to leave, declaring them both persona non grata.
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"Venezuela will respond, step by step, with balance and force," he said, adding that he had ordered his foreign minister to call the chargé d'affaires of the United States Embassy in Caracas to issue a formal complaint.
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One potential witness Democrats are eyeing is William Taylor, the U.S. chargé d'affaires of Ukraine, who had expressed concerns last month that Trump had crossed a line by dangling military aid to pressure Zelensky for political favors.
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Mr. Brown, who was attending an energy conference in Beijing, arrived just days before David H. Rank, the chargé d'affaires of the American Embassy in Beijing, resigned in protest of the president's decision on the Paris agreement.
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The civilian diplomatic mission here has been led by a chargé d'affaires, Hugo Llorens, who was called in from imminent retirement to help as a stopgap during a time when the Afghan government has faced political storms.
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William Taylor, the U.S. chargé d'affaires of Ukraine, had expressed concerns last month that Trump had crossed a line by threatening to withhold U.S. military aid to Ukraine to pressure the country's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, for political favors.ADVERTISEMENT
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In October the American chargé d'affaires, or acting ambassador to Hungary, David Kostelancik, delivered a blistering speech on press freedoms, decrying the growing dominance of "pro-government figures" over the media, who quash articles critical of the government.
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David Rank, the chargé d'affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, has left the State Department over the Trump administration's decision to quit the 2015 Paris agreement to fight climate change, a senior U.S. official said on Monday.
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GOP counsel Steve Castor acknowledged what both he and William Taylor, the chargé d'affaires for Ukraine, described as an "irregular channel" of policymaking between the U.S. and Ukraine during his line of questioning at Wednesday's public impeachment hearing.
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Jo Song Gil, Pyongyang's chargé d'affaires in Rome, disappeared along with his wife in early November, a spokesperson for Kim Min-ki told CNN, following a briefing the lawmaker received from South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) Thursday.
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The messages are between Bill Taylor, Chargé d'Affaires at the US Embassy in Ukraine; Kurt Volker, the former US special envoy to Ukraine; Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the European Union, and aids to the Ukrainian president.
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Meanwhile, officials at the State Department -- led by Marc Knapper, the chargé d'affaires in Seoul, and Susan Thornton, the assistant secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific affairs -- have been working separately to prepare for the summit.
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"Chargé d'Affaires Joey Hood and the entire United States Mission express our deepest condolences to the families and friends of those who lost their lives in the tragic ferry accident on the Tigris River near Mosul," it read.
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George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs, right, and William Taylor, U.S. chargé d'affaires for Ukraine, arrive Wednesday for a House Intelligence Committee hearing as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
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Neumann, the former ambassador, said that in those situations a chargé d'affaires will have a more difficult time getting the access that an ambassador would -- and that's especially so in countries with an acute awareness of rank and hierarchy.
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The chargé d'affaires in the US embassy in Moscow delivered the protest to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Monday morning, and the US defense attaché in Moscow delivered a similar message to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the official said.
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A former Republican congressman who now works as a lobbyist for the Hungarian government, Connie Mack, supported a handful of members of the House of Representatives as they complained about the chargé d'affaires to Rex Tillerson, the secretary of state.
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"I have declared him persona non grata and I announce the exit of the U.S. chargé d'affaires in 48 hours," Maduro said of Todd Robinson during the official proclamation of his re-election which was slammed as a farce by Washington.
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Once in government, he coordinated this endeavor with another Venezuelan of Lebanese origin, Ghazi Atef Nassereddine, who served as Venezuela's chargé d'affaires in Damascus and as an embassy political counselor in Beirut while El Aissami was at the interior ministry.
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The US delegation also included Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan, as well as US Embassy Ottawa Chargé d'Affaires Elizabeth Moore Aubin, Gold Star mother Karen Kelly, professional golfer Nancy Lopez and entertainer Wayne Newton.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - David Rank, the chargé d'affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, has left the State Department over the Trump administration's decision to quit the 2015 Paris agreement to fight climate change, a senior U.S. official said on Monday.
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"I can't get ahead of the White House and announce anything, but I can tell you we are in good hands," Nauert said Tuesday, pointing to the chargé d'affaires, the diplomat who heads an embassy in the absence of an ambassador.
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Bolivia's caretaker president, Jeanine Añez, gave Mexico's ambassador and Spain's chargé d'affaires and its consul in La Paz, the nation's main city, 72 hours to leave, accusing them of breaking diplomatic norms by aiding former officials linked to Mr. Morales.
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William Taylor, the U.S. chargé d'affaires in Ukraine, said in a closed-door testimony Tuesday that he believed the Trump administration held up nearly $400 million in military aid as leverage to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Trump's political rivals.
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And they secured new evidence at the start of the hearing as William Taylor, the chargé d'affaires for Ukraine, testified that his staffer had overheard Trump asking U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland about the "investigations" in a July phone call.
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The change comes as the North Korean People's Army sought to prevent other soldiers from defecting by planting trees and apparently digging a trench at a section of the demilitarized zone, according to the chargé d'affaires at the US Embassy in Seoul.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Iran has summoned Brazil's Chargé d'Affaires in Tehran after the government in Brasilia expressed support for the United States in the "fight against the scourge of terrorism" following the death of an Iranian general in a U.S. drone strike.
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"We inform you that Brazil's Chargé d'Affaires in Tehran, and representatives of other countries that spoke about the events in Baghdad, were summoned by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, within the usual diplomatic practices," the Brazilian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
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However, William Taylor, who serves as the chargé d'affaires for Ukraine, testified Tuesday that he believed Trump withheld roughly $85033 million in financial aid until he secured a commitment from Ukrainian officials that they would launch probes into the Bidens and 2016 election meddling.
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"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has summoned the U.S. Chargé d'Affaires, asking for an explanation, and told him that we consider this a political intervention by the U.S. Department of State ahead of the elections," spokesman Tamas Menczer said in an emailed response.
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William Taylor, the chargé d'affaires to Ukraine, and George Kent, another top State Department official overseeing Kiev, had both testified last month behind closed doors, delivering damning assertions that Trump and his allies had politicized U.S. policy in Ukraine at the expense of national security.
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The US House Intelligence, Oversight and Reform, and Foreign Affairs Committees released text messages between Bill Taylor, Chargé d'Affaires at the US Embassy in Ukraine; Kurt Volker, the former US special envoy to Ukraine; and Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the European Union.
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The State Department also confirmed on Thursday afternoon that the chargé d'affaires there — the top-ranking diplomat in the country because Mr. Trump has yet to nominate an ambassador to South Africa — had met with its officials in the wake of the president's comment.
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Ms. Davis was accompanied by chargé d'affaires, Jeffrey M. Hovenier, the senior-most diplomat in the country, on the first day, which officials said was an effort to impress how seriously the embassy takes the monthslong imprisonment and trial of its local staff member.
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And if there are more revelations of the kind that we've seen since our last conversation — from acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, or U.S. chargé d'affaires in Ukraine Bill Taylor, or wannabe Secretary of State Rudy Giuliani — I don't think I will be alone in this.
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Bill Taylor, who serves as the chargé d'affaires for Ukraine, had testified in meticulous detail last month about what he considered an effort by Trump and his allies to create a shadow foreign policy designed to pressure Ukraine into opening investigations that would benefit Trump politically.
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Vindman, like Chargé d'Affaires Bill Taylor, testified that he spent time counseling the Ukrainians not to get involved in the investigations and US domestic politics, and he can speak to the detrimental impact that the President's actions are having on our vital national security interests abroad.
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The extraordinary texts were exchanged between then-Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker, U.S. Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland, and Bill Taylor, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and longtime Foreign Service officer who has served as the chargé d'affaires for the country since June.
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In addition to testifying about his role connecting President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, with Ukrainian leadership, Volker turned over a series of damning text messages between himself, US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland and Bill Taylor, the chargé d'affaires at the US Embassy in Kiev.
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The text messages also reveal a conversation last month between Sondland, Volker and William Taylor, the current chargé d'affaires for Ukraine, in which Taylor seemed to express grave concerns that Trump was making the release of U.S. military aid to Ukraine contingent upon Zelensky's decision to investigate the Bidens.
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At least one US diplomat, the chargé d'affaires in Ukraine, Bill Taylor, appeared to see a connection between the proposed Biden investigations and the security assistance, calling such a linkage "crazy" in a series of recently revealed text messages between him and several other US diplomats involved in Ukraine issues.
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Two other people who attended gatherings with the Brazilian officials on the trip have since learned they are infected: Mayor Francis Suarez of Miami, who was tested even though he has no symptoms; and Brazil's chargé d'affaires in Washington, Ambassador Nestor Forster Jr., who discovered he was infected on Friday evening.
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William Taylor, who has served as chargé d'affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev since June, appeared to threaten resignation in a text message exchange with two other U.S. diplomats while outlining a "nightmare scenario" surrounding ongoing negotiations to set up a meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Taylor, who serves as the chargé d'affaires for Ukraine, tied Trump officials to a secretive shadow foreign policy campaign in his leaked opening remarks, saying that they sought to obtain a public statement about investigations into the 2016 presidential election and Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that employed former Biden's son, Hunter.
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President John Kennedy personally apologized to Dr. William Fitzjohn, the chargé d'affaires of Sierra Leone, after he was refused service at a Howard Johnson's restaurant in Hagerstown, Md. The white owners of another Maryland restaurant unceremoniously cast out Adam Malick Sow, the ambassador of Chad, and made it clear it was because he was black.
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First, he supported an irregular channel of communication and private diplomacy in Ukraine outside of normal, regular diplomatic channels led by Ambassador Marie YovanovitchMarie YovanovitchFive bombshells from explosive Sondland testimony How Trump has disowned most of the impeachment witnesses Watchdog group sues State Department to release communications related to John Solomon MORE and later by Chargé d'Affaires, Bill Taylor.
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The highest profile testimony is likely to come on Tuesday from William Taylor, the chargé d'affaires for Ukraine and a U.S. diplomat, who exchanged text messages with a pair of diplomats that showed he was worried the Trump administration was withholding military aid to Ukraine to convince its government to conduct political investigations on Trump's behalf.
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Those concerns doubled after the release of explosive text messages between three US diplomats — the former Special Representative to Ukraine Kurt Volker, the US's ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland, and the US's chargé d'affaires in the Ukrainian embassy Bill Taylor — that showed just how intricately involved Giuliani was in running a shadow foreign policy campaign to help Trump's political ambitions.
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The witnesses in the first week of open hearings were three lifelong career diplomats — on Wednesday, William Taylor, currently the chargé d'affaires in Ukraine, and George Kent, the senior State Department official on Ukraine; and on Friday, Marie Yovanovitch, the career diplomat whom President Trump fired as ambassador to Ukraine because she got in the way of his private schemes.
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The message by Kiev Chargé d'Affaires William Taylor was part of an exchange provided to Congress by former U.S. Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE, according to Fox News, which obtained the encrypted texts.
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Democrats quickly scheduled the deposition after William Taylor, the U.S. chargé d'affaires for Ukraine, said during his public testimony Wednesday that Holmes had told him about the phone call between Trump and U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon SondlandGordon SondlandFive takeaways from the Democratic debate Biden says Trump could face prosecution after leaving office Biden: Impeachment hearings show 'Trump doesn't want me to be the nominee' MORE.
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In addition to the former New York Yankees pitcher and the vice president's wife, Small Business Administrator Linda McMahonLinda Marie McMahonIvanka Trump urges support for groups that 'uplift' Baltimore amid father's criticism of city Trump campaign describes Corey Stewart super PAC as 'unconscionable' Pro-Trump group plans to spend 0M in six battleground states MORE, Surgeon General Jerome Adams, and Chargé d'Affaires ad interim of the United States Embassy in the United Arab Emirates Steven Bondy will join the delegation, the White House announced Friday.
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William Taylor, the chargé d'affaires for Ukraine, testified Wednesday that a staffer since identified as Holmes overheard Trump asking U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon SondlandGordon SondlandFive takeaways from the Democratic debate Biden says Trump could face prosecution after leaving office Biden: Impeachment hearings show 'Trump doesn't want me to be the nominee' MORE about "investigations" former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenFive takeaways from the Democratic debate As Buttigieg rises, Biden is still the target Leading Democrats largely pull punches at debate MORE and his son in a July phone call.
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