Example sentences of "kingdom [adj] [conj] commonwealth " in BNC.
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1 | In his last assignment as Minister of State at the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office , Francis Maude visited China on July 25-27 , primarily for talks on Hong Kong . |
2 | Despite this stance and the pressure from the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd to respond positively to de Klerk 's announcement , however , EC Foreign Ministers decided in Brussels on Feb. 4 not to ease sanctions until " legislative action was taken " in South Africa , apparently meaning that they would do so as soon as the legislation was tabled . |
3 | Douglas Hurd , the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , visited Hong Kong and China on April 2-9 for discussions aimed at settling the ongoing conflict between China and the Hong Kong government over the latter 's plan to build a new airport and port complex [ see p. 37961 ] . |
4 | At the request of the army the Collective State Presidency again held an extraordinary session on May 7 which was attended by Marcovic and the Kadijevic but not by Tudjman , who was in London for talks with United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd . |
5 | Douglas Hogg , a Minister of State at the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office , visited Lebanon on June 9-12 . |
6 | Although reports indicated that there continued to be widespread resistance to any dilution of the CSCE 's unanimity rule [ see p. 38314 ; 38366 ] , questions about its merits resurfaced after the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd on Sept. 10 urged the conference to seek ways of strengthening the CSCE 's mechanisms for the protection of human rights , adding that the UK was " certainly in favour of moving beyond the present situation where everything happens by consensus " . |
7 | The United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , Douglas Hurd , had flown to Maputo during the Commonwealth summit in Harare on Oct. 16-22 and , according to some sources , put strong pressure on President Joachim Chissano to come to an agreement . |
8 | Other European visitors to Vietnam in January included Ursula Seiler-Albring , German Minister of State for Foreign Affairs ; the Earl of Caithness , a Minister of State at the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office ; and a French National Assembly delegation . |
9 | There were a number of foreign visitors to Cambodia during January including Nguyen Manh Cam , Foreign Minister of Vietnam , Gen. Phoune Sipaseuth , Foreign Minister of Laos , Ali Alatas , Foreign Minister of Indonesia , Gianni De Michelis , Foreign Minister of Italy , the Earl of Caithness , a Minister of State at the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office , Sadako Ogata , the UN High Commissioner for Refugees , Stephen Solarz , chair of the subcommittee for Asian and Pacific Affairs of the US House of Representatives , and French and Japanese parliamentary delegations . |
10 | The United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office on May 8 announced that the UK would return to Albania gold worth £10,000,000 ( US$18,000,000 ) which had come into British hands after its confiscation by the Nazis during the Second World War . |
11 | This view was echoed in a statement from the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd in which he insisted that the South African government bore full responsibility for keeping the troops in Ciskei and the other bantustans under control . |
12 | Other visitors included : Gen. Benny Murdani , the Indonesian Defence Minister ; Pierre Joxe , the French Defence Minister ; and Alastair Goodlad , a Minister of State at the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office . |
13 | German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel and United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd called for a resolution of the Kashmir dispute during talks with government ministers in Islamabad on Oct. 27-28 and Oct. 31 respectively . |