Example sentences of "[noun] foreign [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WEU Foreign and Defence Ministers , meeting on Feb. 22 in Paris , approved an interim report describing the WEU as able to play " a bridging role between the process of European integration and the Atlantic alliance " . |
| 2 | At an extraordinary meeting of WEU Foreign and Defence Ministers on Oct. 29 the WEU Secretary-General , Willem van Eekelen , suggested a gradual approach whereby EC leaders would approve a common European defence policy at the Maastricht European Council meeting in December but leave the details of its implementation for review for at least five years thereafter . |
| 3 | *Umar Karami Prime Minister Michel al-Murr Deputy Prime Minister ; Minister of National Defence *Ali al Khalil Finance Faris Buwayz Foreign and Expatriate Affairs Maj.-Gen. |
| 4 | *Assad Diyab Finance Faris Buwayz Foreign and Expatriate Affairs Maj.-Gen. |
| 5 | Develop common European Community foreign and security policies . |
| 6 | Neither can we accept that Community foreign and security policy should be decided by majority voting . |
| 7 | Calling the election a " success " , the United Kindgom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , Douglas Hurd , said on Sept. 16 that the UK would work for a progressive extension of democracy in Hong Kong , signalling that the UK might press China to revise the Basic Law under which the proportion of directly elected seats would gradually rise to half by 2007 . |
| 8 | Douglas Hurd , the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , acknowledged in the UK House of Commons on Feb. 16 that the draft was " not ideal " , and that the rate of progress towards democracy in Hong kong would not be " as rapid as people in Hong Kong , or we ourselves , would have liked to see " . |
| 9 | De Klerk also met the West German Foreign Minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd , the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ( who currently chaired the Organization of African Unity ) , and the Presidents of Zambia , Angola and Mozambique . |
| 10 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd visited South Africa on March 19 en route to the Namibian independence celebrations [ see p. 37297 ] . |
| 11 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced on March 22 that the UK and Czechoslovakia would co-operate in trying to find out the ultimate destination of the Semtex which had been exported to Libya . |
| 12 | On Dec. 19 , 1989 , Shevardnadze had talks in London with the UK Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher , and with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , Douglas Hurd . |
| 13 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office responded by " deploring " the remark and calling on the international community " to reject , in the firmest possible way , Iran 's outrageous behaviour " . |
| 14 | On May 19 Petar Beron , the UDF secretary , claimed during a tour of Western countries that the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd was preparing a European Community ( EC ) declaration which would rule out assistance for communist governments . |
| 15 | UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd , also on March 19-22 visiting the Soviet Union , announced that a UK consulate would be opened in Kiev , and held talks with Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin and with Soviet Foreign Minister Aleksandr Bessmertnykh as well as with Gorbachev . |
| 16 | He confirmed that Major had been invited to South Africa and that the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd would be visiting shortly . |
| 17 | Mark Lennox-Boyd , Under-Secretary of State at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office , told the UK Parliament on June 11 that the expulsion , linked to complaints that Gladstone had interfered in the elections by entering a polling booth and by registering a complaint with police alleging malpractice and multiple voting , was apparently intended to stifle Gladstone 's criticism of Sri Lanka 's " unsatisfactory human rights record " . |
| 18 | On his first official visit to the United Kingdom on May 7-8 González met with UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd and Prime Minister John Major . |
| 19 | The commissioners were to report to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office , after which any recommended changes in the constitution would be voted upon in the Cayman Islands Legislative Assembly . |
| 20 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , Douglas Hurd arrived in Kenya on Sept. 11 . |
| 21 | Gibraltar was discussed in talks between the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd and the Spanish Foreign Minister Francisco Fernández Ordóñez in London on Feb. 12 , 1991 , and again during Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González Márquez 's visit to London in May 1991 [ see p. 38201 ] . |
| 22 | March : March 5 : United Kingdom Prime Minister John Major had talks in Moscow with Gorbachev on the Gulf conflict and the situation in the Baltic states ; March 7 : the RFSFR and Czechoslovakia signed a trade co-operation agreement ; March 12 : it was announced in Moscow that the withdrawal of the 50,000 troops stationed in Poland would begin in April , although the process would not be completed before 1994 ; March 14-16 : following a tour of the Middle East , US Secretary of State James Baker visited Moscow for talks on the situation in the Gulf and the presentation of a six-point US plan for peace and stability in the Middle East ; March 18-20 : UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd visited both Kiev and Moscow for discussions on British-Soviet relations ; March 22 : Soviet-Romanian treaty of friendship and co-operation initialled in Moscow ; March 28 : Bessmertnykh held further talks in Tokyo in connection with Gorbachev 's forthcoming visit . |
| 23 | The rapid reaction force issue was hotly debated at a meeting of the WEU Assembly in Paris on June 3-6 , when the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd launched a forceful defence of the WEU 's links with NATO and stressed the importance of collaboration with the USA . |
| 24 | Douglas Hurd , the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , however , declared that he did not " believe there is any point , and some danger indeed , in duplicating what NATO does and what the members of NATO decided should be renewed and continued " . |
| 25 | In April the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , Douglas Hurd visited both Hong Kong and China [ see p. 38147 ] and in July Francis Maude , Minister of State at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office , visited China for talks on Hong Kong . |
| 26 | In April the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , Douglas Hurd visited both Hong Kong and China [ see p. 38147 ] and in July Francis Maude , Minister of State at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office , visited China for talks on Hong Kong . |
| 27 | A UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister of State , Tristan Garel-Jones , met Menem , Foreign Minister Guido di Tella and Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo during an official two-day visit to Buenos Aires which ended on Jan. 25 . |
| 28 | Broad agreement with the United Kingdom on an extradition treaty covering terrorists was confirmed on Jan. 16 during a visit by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , Douglas Hurd on Jan. 15-17 . |
| 29 | A UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesman denied that the UK had a responsibility to monitor the composition of Exco after 1997 . |
| 30 | His remarks , downplayed by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office , provoked an uproar among UK right-wing Conservative politicians . |