Example sentences of "the [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 . |