Example sentences of "[art] [adj] foreign [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Izvestiya of May 29 , Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev had announced that the withdrawal of the 14th Army had been agreed ; the timescale and conditions were to be discussed at the quadrilateral Foreign and Defence Ministers ' meeting , postponed from May 29 . |
| 2 | The Lebanese Foreign and Expatriate Affairs Minister , Faris Buwayz , met with senior Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) leaders in Cairo on May 15-16 to discuss the disarming of militias . |
| 3 | The Lebanese Foreign and Expatriate Affairs Minister , Faris Buwayz , visited Iran on Sept. 14-17 to discuss the hostages . |
| 4 | And Article J.4 says : ‘ The common foreign and security policy shall include all questions related to the security of the Union , including the eventual framing of a common defence policy . ’ |
| 5 | Lest there be any doubts about this , consider the Maastricht Declaration on Voting in the Field of the Common Foreign and Security Policy : ‘ The Conference agrees that , with regard to Council decisions requiring unanimity , Member States will , to the extent possible , avoid preventing a unanimous decision where a qualified majority exists in favour of that decision . ’ |
| 6 | Finally : ‘ The Commission shall be fully associated with the work carried out in the common foreign and security field ’ ( Article J.9 ) . |
| 7 | Title V of the Maastricht Treaty stipulates that the Common Foreign and Security policy ‘ shall respect the obligations of certain Member States under the North Atlantic Treaty ’ ; but this does not explain why a new structure is necessary at all . |
| 8 | In assessing the likely effectiveness of the Common Foreign and Security policy , it is important to look at the examples of joint European Community foreign-policy ventures to date . |
| 9 | There can be little doubt that under the terms of the Common Foreign and Security policy , there would have been no European response to Saddam Hussein 's aggression . |
| 10 | The EEC 's response to the disintegration of Yugoslavia is an equally important indication of what might be expected from the Common Foreign and Security policy . |
| 11 | What the Common Foreign and Security policy represents is not a realistic and objective response to Europe 's security needs , but the establishment of a unified European foreign policy in principle because it is felt that the European Union , as an ‘ independent ’ entity , ought to be served by such a policy . |
| 12 | As does the whole concept of the Common Foreign and Security policy , they represent a way of thinking which sees military capability as relatively unimportant beside the dream of a powerful and independent European Union , speaking with one voice and free from American interference . |
| 13 | The decision-making process for implementation of the common foreign and security policy has still to be examined … |
| 14 | Attached to the conclusions were a report " on the likely development of the common foreign and security policy " and declarations on former Yugoslavia , the Middle East peace process , and relations between Europe and the Maghreb . |
| 15 | The other is that efforts to forge a European foreign and security policy ( loudly backed in principle by the Germans ) may be doomed . |
| 16 | Jacques Delors , the President of the Commission of the European Communities ( EC ) , proposed on March 7 that the EC go beyond establishing a joint foreign and security policy and commit itself to a common European defence policy . |
| 17 | An international commission ruled in Washington DC on Jan. 11 that the Chilean government should pay just over US$2,600,000 in compensation to the families of Orlando Letelier , a former Foreign and Defence Minister and ambassador to the United States under the 1970-73 Allende government , and his US associate , Ronni Moffit . |
| 18 | After a 14-month investigation , two former heads of the DINA secret police under the previous military regime , Gen. ( retd ) Manuel Contreras and Col. Pedro Espinoza , were charged on Nov. 10 with the murder in 1976 of Orlando Letelier , a former Foreign and Defence Minister and ambassador to the United States under the 1970-1973 regime of Salvador Allende , and his associate Ronni Moffit . |
| 19 | And it blew massive holes in Mr Major 's argument that Maastricht means fewer powers for the European Commission — and no common foreign or defence policy . |
| 20 | But Europe 's obsession with clearing a path to a common foreign and defence policy risks doing just that . |
| 21 | I hope that we shall make progress , along the cautious lines suggested by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister this afternoon , on a common foreign and defence policy . |
| 22 | Discussions during February within the context of the intergovernmental conference ( IGC ) on political union of the European Communities ( EC ) centred on the question of a common foreign and defence policy . |
| 23 | The two others — a common foreign and defence policy , and police and judicial co-operation — would be decided by meetings of relevant EC government ministers and thus remain outside the EC decision-making machinery . |
| 24 | Euro-hopefuls argue that if Europe had already been committed to a common foreign and security policy , its military contribution in the Gulf would have been swifter and more effective . |
| 25 | The Franco-German joint statement speaks of democratic legitimation of the union , making Europe 's institutions more efficient , ensuring unity and coherence in every sphere and implementing a common foreign and security policy . |
| 26 | Also included were proposals for the development of a common foreign and security policy and , ultimately , common defence . |
| 27 | The provisions relating to Economic and Monetary Union take the form of amendments to the EEC Treaty and therefore form an integral part of Community law ( even if one might have doubts as to the likelihood of the factual events which would trigger the final stage ) ; on the other hand , in the context of the provisions relating to political Union , a distinction was made between those matters which constituted amendments to the existing Community treaties , and those which fell outside the scope of the Communities , notably the provisions on a Common foreign and Security policy and those on co-operation in the fields of Justice and Home Affairs . |
| 28 | Title V provides for a Common Foreign and Security policy . |
| 29 | The provisions for a common foreign and security policy come in Title V of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 30 | Article J.1 of that Title declares : ‘ The Union and its Member States shall define and implement a common foreign and security policy , governed by the provisions of this Title and covering all areas of foreign and security policy . ’ |