Example sentences of "[art] uk foreign [conj] [noun sg] secretary " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 " . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd visited South Africa on March 19 en route to the Namibian independence celebrations [ see p. 37297 ] . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He confirmed that Major had been invited to South Africa and that the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd would be visiting shortly . |
| 7 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , Douglas Hurd arrived in Kenya on Sept. 11 . |
| 8 | 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 ] . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 " . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The UK government reaffirmed that all appointments in Hong Kong up to 1997 would be made by the Governor after consultation with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary . |
| 14 | Speaking on behalf of the European Communities ( EC ) , the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd said on Sept. 22 that the EC would support Boutros-Ghali 's proposal for a peacekeeping reserve fund , adding that at end-August EC member countries had provided 40 per cent of contributions collected for various peacekeeping operations since the end of the last General Assembly . |
| 15 | On the question of the 1995 elections , Patten revealed that Douglas Hurd , the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , had formally raised with China the issue of allowing larger number of democratically elected seats . |