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Singaporean Foreign Minister George Yeo is about to visit China tomorrow. Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi will host talks with him.

Sergei Lavrov, Russian foreign minister, said the exercises would be an annual event.

Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly in September, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said the ball is in Washington's court.

Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi will meet and exchange views with him on the situation in Libya.

Fu Ying, China's deputy foreign minister, said China was committed to investing in European bonds and was ready to help Portugal.

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said the meeting was a milestone in the history of China-Arab relations.

China expressed concern over the missile tests and says its foreign minister Li Zhaoxing discussed the matter by telephone with U.

Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says his country is ready to resume talks on its nuclear program if those talks are "fair. "

In Bratislava, Slovakia's Foreign Minister Mikulas Dzurinda said Friday that his country was also ready to participate in the project.

Irish Foreign Minister Martin said he is confident that Mitchell can prevail in his Middle East task as well.

Since she came into office, everyone knew that Makiko Tanaka would not be an average foreign minister.

Han Sung-joo, a former South Korean foreign minister, now at the Asan Institute, a think-tank, says that this behaviour is to be expected.

Mr Papandreou, a former foreign minister who reached out to Turkey, is mistrusted by his party's old-fashioned nationalists.

Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi condemned the "heinous crime" and said the culprits would be brought to justice.

Foreign Minister Mahmood Qureshi said the government had already summoned the U. S. ambassador to complain.

With that in mind, Foreign Minister Yang and I discussed the resumption of the human rights dialogue between our two countries.

The Irish foreign minister, Michael Martin, said he was delighted to hear that Commins, from Dublin, and her colleague had been released.

Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing will meet with him on the sideline of the meeting.

I can't actually sit with my foreign minister or my prime minister again with a smile on my face and do what I used to do gladly for them.

"He did not come across as the foreign minister of a friendly nation, " he told the Financial Times.

South Korea's foreign minister has said the case could be referred to the UN Security Council.

The Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa has arrived in London unexpectedly and is having talks with British officials.

Israel responded by sending Eli Dayan, a Deputy Foreign Minister, to Egypt to discuss the matter.

Remember I am the foreign minister so whether I can speak French or not seems to be reasonably immaterial .

Yet, as Petro Poroshenko, a former foreign minister, says, it should not be a question of money or gas.

Opposition politicians, newspaper columnists and a disaffected former foreign minister are beginning to find their voice.

It has been a tradition for more than twenty years for the Chinese Foreign Minister to visit Africa at the very beginning of the year.

During the visit, Foreign Minister Yang will hold talks with him and Chinese leaders meet him as well.

He Yafei, a vice foreign minister, said: "The standoff with Iran over its nuclear programme can only be resolved through dialogue. "

Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo also got into the discussion, sticking up for her boss.

The Dutch foreign minister Maxime Verhagen decided that the best way his country could start to mend fences was to say it with flowers.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the U. S. proposals are serious and will be studied.

One European foreign minister calls it "a small Yugoslavia in the Levant" .

It said the changes would radically alter the mission, but the Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem said that was not the case.

Espen Barth Eide, Norway's deputy foreign minister, said he was surprised by the changed atmosphere in Burma during a visit this week.

This week, Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro said the country would defend its oil policies and its sovereignty.

World Wide Web news reports Japanese Foreign Minister Wang Huan Maehara Tokyo from 6 am to leave for the United States visit.

To this end, he made Bernard Kouchner, a left-wing former humanitarian champion, his foreign minister.

Egyptian Foreign Minister recently claimed that "relations between Egypt and the United States will be in a position of equality" in the U.

Earlier, standing beside Qureshi at a brief appearance for reporters, the Indian foreign minister was more circumspect.

French Foreign minister Kouchner warned that we all over the world should make good preparation for the war to Iran.

If Ambassador Cui Tiankai is going to be the Vice Foreign Minister, who will succeed him as Chinese Ambassador to Japan?

This was the message, too, that the foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, took to a meeting with EU foreign ministers in Brussels.

The foreign minister said he is innocent of any wrongdoing, and predicted that he will return.

My question also relates to the relationship with the United States. Your Foreign Minister said a couple of weeks ago that the U.

Kiir said he welcomes Yang as the first foreign minister from a permanent member country of the UN Security Council to visit South Sudan.

The Interfax news agency reported that Russia's deputy foreign minister said the proposed resolution is unacceptable.

Russia's foreign minister warned of a "colossal danger" , and said those behind the attack carried a huge responsibility.

South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan said he has heard the reports but "I understand things are not going that way. "

The Afghan foreign minister said he is confident that an agreement can be concluded despite recent setbacks.

And Iran's foreign minister threatens to resume Teheran's uranium enrichment program if talks with European Nations in London fail.

The Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem said he was confident that Syria would emerge stronger and Mr Assad would remain as leader.

Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi will hold talks with him tomorrow morning, and Chinese leaders will meet with him tomorrow afternoon.

But Australia's foreign minister, Stephen Smith, said there was no evidence that the arrest was related to either episode.

Its foreign minister, Sam Kutesa, says the report is all rumour, with no proper reporting standards.

Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said the appeal-court verdict was politically motivated.

Before his new assignment, Zhang used to be Chinese permanent representative to the UN and vice foreign minister, Xinhua reported.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki rejected the sanctions and said Iran had no intention of suspending its enrichment program.

As you all know, Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei is now in Beijing after his visit to Russia, US, Japan and the ROK.

As a former foreign minister says, America has concluded that Pakistanis are rascals, but at least they are "still our rascals" .

Despite finding each other "mutually unbearable" , as one European ex-foreign minister puts it, the two have found a way to get along.

The foreign minister said the release and withdrawal of the pirates occurred in the most simple way.

Bush brought up the issue with China's foreign minister in a meeting at the White House.

But, the Iranian Foreign Minister, Saeed Jalili, said the package contained many positive ideas.

Pakistan's foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, told me that his top three goals are "market access, market access, market access. "

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says his country is ready to play an intermediary role in a uranium exchange program.

South Korean Foreign Minister Yoo Myung-hwan told lawmakers Tuesday joining PSI was the correct move for a "mature nation. "

I was the foreign minister of the country and I had to defend the country and do everything possible to explain our position.

But opinion polls showed ordinary Germans want just as little to do with the Libya conflict as their foreign minister.

Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store, a Labour Party member, said he had visited the camp on Thursday.

"He is a man of dialogue, " says Jorge Moragas, Mr Rajoy's chief of staff and a possible foreign minister.

In Tokyo Tuesday, Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone said Japan has no choice but to extend its sanctions against North Korea.

The foreign minister said he is happy to wait for a response from the Chinese authorities on this matter.

Bahrain's foreign minister sat down with Foreign Policy yesterday to discuss the standoff.

The Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the continued attacks on civilians could not be excused.

China's foreign minister argued at the time, "China is a big country and other countries are small countries, and that's just a fact. "

Last week Celso Amorim, Brazil's foreign minister, said that he did not want to become part of an organised campaign.

The Foreign Minister advised Burghardt that new measures would require an identity card for children eight to fourteen years of age.

Your own Foreign Minister, my colleague Li is of course an expert on Africa, having visited most of its countries - and speaking Swahili.

First, Australian Foreign Minister Smith will visit China shortly. Could you brief us on his schedule and the topics due to be discussed?

Hill met several North Korean officials, including Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun and a senior army general in a visit spanning three days.

Even so, Japan's foreign minister says his country "cannot help worrying about what all the money is used for. "

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon told Israel Radio that the Israeli government will not allow the U. N. delegation to enter the country.

Another possibility would be to fire some of the more-hawkish ministers, notably the abrasive Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

S. exchanges. Matsumoto, Japanese Foreign Minister's visit just a matter Ming 29 15 entered the final stages of coordination.

He is now foreign minister in Julia Gillard's cabinet: an adviser has warned me that Rudd will not talk about "the events of June 24" .

She is now Geneva for discussions with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. It seems the two sides have much to talk about.

Under Lisbon, there will also be a quasi-foreign minister who will double up as the external-affairs commissioner.

Labor has a strong lead in opinion polls; McClelland is expected to serve as foreign minister if the party wins power.

Q: Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei's recent visit to the DPRK did not make much breakthrough.

After eight harrowing minutes, the Foreign Minister regained consciousness and exhibited a strong, regular pulse.

Mr. Hill was scheduled to leave Beijing on Sunday after his series of meetings, including one with the Chinese foreign minister, Wu Dawei. .

The foreign minister's visit can be taken as one more indicator that the relationships between the two countries are improving.

For a time, she was foreign minister of Somaliland.

As foreign minister, Mr Steinmeier has proved soft on Russia, and his party is turning against the war in Afghanistan.

Assad's frailty and a stroke suffered by Foreign Minister Shara in the fall of 1999 heightened Barak's sense of urgency.

The news was announced by Britain's foreign minister in London.

As far as I know, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei will meet with him respectively.

The move ensures that a former head of state, an ex-foreign minister and his wife and the Khmer's second-in-command will face trial.

A: Premier Wen Jiabao met with Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun during his visit, and Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing held talks with him.

Chinese leaders will meet with him, and Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi will hold talks with him.

Foreign Minister Li is going to address the United Nations on the subject of war and peace.

I've just had a very productive meeting and luncheon with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang on a broad range of issues of mutual concern.

Assistant Foreign Minister Wu Hailong met with him yesterday, exchanging views on issues of common interest.

The Turkish foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, waxes lyrical about a "golden age" of the Balkans with Turkey.

the conference Marshall held a reception at the U. S. Embassy in honor of Molotov, the foreign minister of the host country.

Q: Foreign Minister of East Timor may become the candidate of the next U. N. Secretary General. Will China support his candidacy?

THE big story in Romania is the fate of Adrian Severin, a former foreign minister and a member of the European Parliament.

Former Vice Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka is among those who have lost patience with him.

'Territorial issues do not exist in this region, ' Seiji Maehara, who was appointed Japan's foreign minister on Friday, said Sunday.

China reacted sharply to the coordinated push, and Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi spoke out against the U. S. proposal.

Q: Foreign Minister Tang said yesterday that the international anti-terrorism campaign must not be expanded indefinitely.

QUESTION: That includes the next foreign minister as well?

Foreign Minister Yang: Good morning, friends from the press. It is a pleasure to meet with you today.

Commissioned by Joschka Fischer, a former German foreign minister, the book is a product of years of investigation.

Second, I asked Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi to call US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to explain the situation to her.

The German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle of the liberal FDP expressed his disappointment.

Even China has offered to help, says Mr Sen, who notes a Chinese former foreign minister is part of the project.

Seyss-Inquart, the Austrian quisling and, most recently, the butcher governor of Holland, was to be Foreign Minister.

But on Tuesday Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, stressed that there was still room for further diplomatic efforts.

The man appointed this week as foreign minister to make diplomatic harmony out of this cacophony is Katsuya Okada.

A new version of it may be constructed by Kamel Morjane, until recently a party leader and Mr Ben Ali's foreign minister.

Many noticed when Guido Westerwelle, the German foreign minister, paid his first visit not (like his predecessors) to Paris, but to Warsaw.

China was noncommittal to attending the trilateral meeting. And the foreign minister cautioned the U. S. on its position.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters, "there is nothing to worry about at the embassy, everything is under control. "

Yesterday, Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei met with them respectively and exchanged views with them on the next phase of the Six-Party Talks.

Chairman of this round of talks, Head of the Chinese Delegation and Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei presided over the meeting.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said today (Friday) European countries would lose their right to monitor Iran's nuclear program.

All but one of the seven original figures from the left have now gone, including Bernard Kouchner, the sacked foreign minister.

Upon his return from Vienna, he was made deputy foreign minister.

Assistant Foreign Minister Zhang Kunsheng held the 11th political consultation between the two Foreign Ministries with her.

Among them, former British Foreign Minister Malcolm Rifkind neatly laid out the biggest contrasts in an editorial in the Times of London.

Prince Saudi al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, rebuffed the idea, saying the Chinese did not need suggestions from Saudi Arabia.

"There is always an element of worry when there is democratic transition, " Finnish Foreign Minister Alex Stubb said on Monday, at the E.

Olmert met Barak, foreign minister Tzipi Livni and his senior commanders for an apparently tense four-hour meeting on Tuesday night.

Were Mr. Blake Still Foreign Minister, relations between the two countries would have been better.

My three foreign minister colleagues are concerned about this and they are working on the problem, and I stay in close touch with them.

The Iranian foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, claimed "British spies" had been sent to manipulate the elections.

But at a news conference with Israel's foreign minister, Secretary Rice said she had convinced the Palestinian president to change his mind.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said an invitation had been extended to Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan to visit New York.

The appointment of Seiji Maehara as foreign minister is likely to be welcomed in Washington security circles.

All but one of the six figures from the left have disappeared, including Bernard Kouchner, who was sacked as foreign minister.

Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that Berezovsky's calls for a violent overthrow were sufficient grounds for extradition.

But on Wednesday, they told Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in Washington that it does not place any conditions on Pakistan.

She may offer Mr Rudd a place in cabinet, perhaps as foreign minister.

The announcement was made by the Romanian foreign minister following talks with a French minister in Bucharest.

China and Cuba are "good comrades, good friends and good partners, " said the Chinese foreign minister.

Diplomatic sources say Burkina Faso's foreign minister is to be named joint mediator on Darfur during this AU summit.

The foreign minister says some of his European counterparts are interested.

The U. S. delegation is led by Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly, while Pyongyang's is headed by Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan.

Masahiko Komura, foreign minister, welcomed a Chinese offer to send team of specialists to help investigate.

Thus were dismissed out of hand the reasonable concerns of the most pro-western foreign minister that Russia has ever had.

A: So far, I haven't heard that Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei plans to attend the meeting.

Earlier this year Patricia Espinosa, Mexico's foreign minister, renegotiated $400m of debt on which Cuba had defaulted.

There were unconfirmed reports that the country's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, would be named foreign minister.

Clinton met with Czech Republic Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, whose government - along with Poland - has agreed to host the system.

The meeting of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and State Secretary Clinton looked really amazing.

Nonetheless, an Israeli envoy held secret talks with the Turkish foreign minister to begin restoring frayed ties between the former allies.

Stephen Smith, Australia's foreign minister, said yesterday that he would raise Mr Hu's case with Yang Jiechi, his Chinese counterpart.

The foreign minister did not say when Castro will return.

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi countered that Beijing's nuclear strategy was clear and its position on disarmament widely recognized.

A Chinese Vice Foreign Minister who's in charge of the event has recently visited Europe to hold consultations with the European side.

But Iran's foreign minister says the chances of such a referral are slim.

He adds that Mr Ozawa is rumoured to have enticed the notoriously fickle Mr Hatoyama by promising to make him foreign minister, if elected.

Kevin Rudd becomes the first Foreign Minister in Australia to resign from his post in another country.

Late last month, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Mekdad visited Beijing at a time when his country faces serious internal unrest.

On Tuesday, foreign minister Seiji Maeharasaid deepening the bilateral alliance is an 'extremely important mission' for Japan.

The warning to Japan, an important trade and security partner, was delivered on the eve of a visit by Katsuya Okada, the foreign minister.

Ecuador's foreign minister resigned after the president, Rafael Correa, criticised his officials for their handling of a scheme.

The French Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe said Wednesday the situation in Misrata could not continue and he would contact the head of NATO.

"People see only one side of this story, " complains Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey's foreign minister, in an interview.

As the visit approached to the end, Vice Foreign Minister Zhai Jun introduced the visit and its results to the accompanying journalists.

Stephen Smith, Australian foreign minister, said that the court would consider its verdict and possible sentencing.

Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and Minister of Commerce Chen Deming attended the meeting.

Foreign Minister Yang spoke highly of the work of Margaret Chan and indicated the central government will actively support her re-election.

The rich merchant married her daughter off to the foreign minister of his neighbouring country.

Former Khmer Rouge foreign minister leng Sary appeared before Cambodia's genocide tribunal to press for his release from pretrial detention.

The Iranian foreign minister was quoted in Munich as saying an agreement might be close.

The Turkish foreign minister told reporters he plans to travel Tuesday to Benghazi for a meeting with the TNC leadership.

At the time Iran's foreign minister said the trial could clear the way for their freedom.

Not long after China had contacted the opposition, the Libyan foreign minister visited China to try to ascertain China's position.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius pledges to do everything necessary to find who was behind the bombing.

Both Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and hard-line leader Benjamin Netanyahu claimed victory in what is still a very tight race.

Abdel Elah al-Khatib, a former Jordanian foreign minister appointed by the UN as a special envoy to Libya, is talking to both sides.

In a speech in Berlin Radek Sikorski, Poland's foreign minister, urged Germany to take action to save the euro zone.

In an interview last week, Katsuya Okada, Japan's foreign minister, said that the LDP followed US foreign policy "too closely" .

Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said Afghanistan is a country of concern that deserves the help and support of the international community.

On Wednesday, Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said bluntly that the Japanese hunt was not science, but "the slaughter of whales. "

The biggest legacy could be at home. Janos Martonyi, Hungary's foreign minister, calls his country's presidency a "maturity test" .

Others suggest that Radek Sikorski, Poland's foreign minister, has a personal vendetta against Lithuania (he insists he does not).

This view is attributed to foreign minister Tzipi Livni, for whom such an approach would dovetail with diplomatic moves.

Labour's surge comes at the expense of the main opposition party, Kadima, led by Tzipi Livni, a former foreign minister.

India's foreign minister is in Burma for meetings with top leaders that are expected to focus on security and trade.

The Polish foreign minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, urged Germany to save the EU from "a crisis of apocalyptic proportions" .

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi has met with a delegation from Syria's opposition parties here in Beijing.

Film appeared in a foreign minister, and pointed to the wood of the Transformers, said that after the fire will be.

Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi says both ministers had a good phone conversation.

Following the meeting, Li held talks with Vice President & Foreign Minister of the Swiss Confederation Micheline Calmy-Rey.

On the same day, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi also exchanged congratulatory messages with his Chilean counterpart, Alfredo Moreno.

Australia's split from the British monarchy is "inevitable" but won't occur before 2010, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Sunday.

Vice Minister of Commerce Zhang Zhigang and Assistant Foreign Minister Li Hui were present at the meeting.

The coalition's weakest link is the liberal FDP and its abrasive leader, Guido Westerwelle, who also serves as foreign minister.

France's Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe, said he is "aware" of negotiations with Mr. Gbagbo to arrange his departure.

The Foreign Minister is an old hand at negotiating with the Arabs.

Okada, 57, shares Maehara's background as a one-time foreign minister and DPJ president, and is in favor of the government's fiscal reforms.

Instead the Polish foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, may get a chance.

The dead included a son of a former foreign minister of Hamas, the Islamist group that seized the strip last summer.

Opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva, the former foreign minister, demanded the resignation of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev Thursday.

British agents had gotten a copy of a telegram from Germany's foreign minister to Germany's ambassador in Mexico.

One of the four Italian hostages abducted in Iraq has been killed, the Italian foreign minister has said.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany's foreign minister, urged the creation of a European-wide aid plan for GM.

But Mr Westerwelle, who as foreign minister has made much of good relations with Poland, says no.

In Vienna, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal said his country is considering what he called a "measured response. "

Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan said on Wednesday that South Korea will 'take appropriate measures in a firm and cautious manner. '

Both sides said Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi will proceed with a visit to Washington on Tuesday.

As one developing country foreign minister said to me: "The Athenians had nothing to offer to the Spartans. "

At home after the reception he received with indifference the cross of the Legion of Honor which the foreign minister had given him.

The referendum is in part a vote of confidence in Mr Torrijos's government, admits Samuel Lewis Navarro, the foreign minister.

Assistant Foreign Minister Hu Zhengyue was invited to the event and made remarks.

PROGRESS in Myanmar, an Australian foreign minister once remarked, comes at the pace of glue flowing up a hill.

Separately, Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara warned that any such visit would "hurt the feelings of the Japanese people" .

Gareth Evans, a former Australian foreign minister, and head of the International Crisis Group, a think-tank, will co-chair the commission.

Vice Foreign Minister Wang Guangya was also present at the meeting.

"There is a risk that we will be plunged back into months and years of navel-gazing, " warned Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn.

Japanese foreign minister Seiji Maehara resigned on Sunday to take responsibility for accepting donations from a foreign national.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to meet Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Wednesday.

Much of the blame will fall on Guido Westerwelle, the party's chairman and Germany's foreign minister.

China's foreign minister says his country's main diplomatic mission is to ensure continued economic growth at home.

Yang Jiechi, China's foreign minister, met with Hillary Clinton, secretary of state, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Monday.

They were the idea of Canadian Foreign Minister Lester Pearson, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work.

South Korea's foreign minister said Seoul would consider referring the attack to the United Nations Security Council.

Another cable assesses Turkey's foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu as an "exceptionally dangerous" Islamist influence.

India's foreign minister, Pranab Mukherjee, says the answers are comprehensive and further information will be in Islamabad shortly.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Israel is a mature, democratic country that is capable of conducting its own investigation.

Deputy Foreign Minister He Yafei told reporters in Beijing today (Thursday) that the two sides are taking steps to arrange a meeting.

European Union Foreign Minister, Javier Solana described the daylong negotiations as generally constructive.

Assistant Chinese Foreign Minister Wu Hailong told reporters that different points of view will not hamper overall BRICS cooperation.

Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has made his first official trip to Washington to meet U. S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

"The EU is between a rock and a hard place, " says Alexander Stubb, Finland's foreign minister.

Indian diplomats "swagger around like viceroys, " complains Ramesh Nath Pandey, a conservative former foreign minister.

In January, he sent his foreign minister to Washington to advise that Australiawould pull its combat troops out of Iraq this year.

They were scheduled to travel on from Tbilisi to Moscow to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Some people want to kick me, said Liu Xinquan (then Vice Foreign Minister ) was just behind me, to kick me, I'm not afraid!

But since the murder three years ago of Anna Lindh, the foreign minister, he has had no obvious successor.

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi also attended the opening ceremony of the new Chinese embassy in Washington recently.

The French news agency, AFP, reported Tuesday that Niger's foreign minister has denied reports Gadhafi is in the convoy.

Abba Eban, an Israeli foreign minister, quipped that the Palestinians "never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity" .

Two of his cabinet colleagues, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz have said they will run for the post.

At the time an assistant foreign minister delivered a stinging lecture to your correspondent.

Kevin Rudd, Australia's foreign minister, managed to sum up republican views of the royal wedding pretty well.