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The five nominated representatives from the major financial contributors are: Jun Yamazaki, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Japan; Jean-Marie Guéhenno (France), former Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations; James Dobbins, former Assistant Secretary of State of the United States of America; Paul Johnston, Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Sweden; and Hans-Joachim Daerr, former Ambassador of Germany to Japan.

Thirdly, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton noted in her remarks at the Asia Society last month, the year 2011 will see the confluence of three surges: a joint Afghan and international military offensive against Al-Qaida and the Taliban; a civilian campaign to bolster the Afghan Government, economy and civil society; and an intensified diplomatic push to bring the Afghan conflict to an end and chart a new and secure future for the region.

I think we have already seen today the fruits of our efforts: starting as I walked into the museum with a large group of Chinese and American children waving flags and greeting me; listening to the wonderful chorus of Chinese and American students singing a powerful duo of songs, one in English, the other in Chinese; hearing the report from the under secretary and the vice minister outlining all of the work that has been done and the work that lies ahead; and then the special treat of hearing from our two students.

He welcomed the recent release of the Nuclear Posture Review by the United States Government and the latter’s commitment to seeking ways to reduce the role of nuclear weapons while maintaining a safe and secure deterrent capability; the signing of the new strategic arms reduction treaty between the United States and Russia; the April 2010 Nuclear Security Summit, at which measures to reduce the threat of nuclear attack had been discussed; the renewed commitment by the United States President to seek ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and his efforts to start negotiations on a fissile material cut-off treaty; and the announcement by the United States Secretary of State, at the current meeting, of greater transparency with respect to her country’s nuclear stockpile.

Ms.Annie Chan has been re-appointed as a Board Member at the Hong Kong Deposit Protection (HKDP) Board.

It is imperative for the Security Council not to step into the same situation in which it was once misused as a tool of high-handedness and hegemony of the United States by giving legitimacy to its armed invasion into Iraq, based on a single word of lies of Powell, United States Secretary of State, in February 2003.

The United States may exempt a foreign government official from the application of this ground upon the discretionary decision of the U.S. Secretary of State, or if the child is located in a State Party to the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, done at The Hague on October 25, 1980 (United States, INA, sect. 212(a)(10)(C)(iii)(II)-(III)).

33. At the 1st meeting, on 14 September 2009, the Minister for Disaster Management and Human Rights of Sri Lanka, the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations Affairs of the United States and H.R.H Princess Bajrakitiyabha of Thailand respectively delivered a statement to the Council.

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Germany welcomed the announcement by the United States Secretary of State that her country would reveal the size of its existing nuclear potential, which was a concrete step towards strengthening transparency.

As Secretary of State Clinton has said, we believe that, through good-faith negotiations, the parties can mutually agree on an outcome that ends the conflict and reconciles the Palestinian goal of an independent and viable State based on the 1967 lines, with agreed swaps, and the Israeli goal of a Jewish State with secure and recognized borders that reflect subsequent developments.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the Future of Central Asia”, speech by Evan A. Feigenbaum, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, the Nixon Center, Washington DC, 6 September 2007, at www.state.gov/p/sca/rls/rm/2007/91 858.htm; and “The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: Is it Undermining U.S. Interests in Central Asia?

Santa Clara, California (September 27, 2011) – Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL), a worldwide leader in integrated silicon solutions and Weili Dai, the company’s co-founder, are honored to have joined U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for the Global Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer and leaders from across the Asia-Pacific region at last week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Women and the Economy Summit (WES) and are proud to pledge their commitment to the resulting San Francisco Declaration.

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Annie Chan shared her expert insight with Banking Today, the in-house magazine of the Hong Kong Institue of Bankers  (HKIB), on the different regulatory measures taken by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) to combat and control the risks of “mis-selling” within the financial industry in Hong Kong.

At its 6th meeting, on 25 May, the Commission held a panel discussion on “e-Science, e-Engineering, e-Education”, moderated by Andrew W. Reynolds, Deputy Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State, United States Department of State.

A senior delegation of Deloitte partners led by Global Deputy CEO, Brian Derksen, Chairman of Deloitte Center for Cross-Border Investment & Former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, USA, Robert Kimmitt, Asia Pacific CEO Chaly Mah, China Chairman Joseph Lo and China CEO Chris Lu participated to discuss with other business leaders, politicians and intellectuals on topics related to maintaining a stable environment and promoting continuous development in Asia amid economic uncertainty arising from international debt crises.

Update, 21 November 2012, 2 p.m. GMT–5: On 21 November, Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Amr and Secretary of State of the United States of America Hillary Rodham Clinton announced, in a joint news conference in Cairo, Egypt, that Israel and Hamas had agreed to a ceasefire, in effect as of 9 p.m. local time.

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Henry Kissinger, United States Secretary of State in 1975, referring in a diplomatic message to the illegality of the northern limit line, said that it was unilaterally set and was not accepted by north Korea.

Statements were also made by the Minister of Justice of Portugal, the Vice-Minister of Justice of China, the Chief Prosecutor of the Republic of Korea, the State Secretary of the Ministry of Justice of Croatia, the Chairman of the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State of the Department of State of the United States.

Turning now to other important matters, at the 2010 NPT Review Conference, Secretary of State Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton reaffirmed the United States commitment to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.

(i) Exploring the possibility of partnering with the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues, United States Department of State, which has a task force Page 4 looking into Asia-Pacific food security issues, a priority of the current United States

During the recent meeting of the Quartet, and also at the meeting with Secretary Rice in Ramallah, President Abbas had stated that the Palestinian Authority was wholly prepared and trusted that the political process and the negotiations would continue after the changes in the United States and Israel.

34th session of the General Conference held in good conditions from the technical point of view despite resource constraints and a further increase in the number of delegates (3,463 from 185 Member States were registered, including 279 ministers, vice-ministers and secretaries of state, some 400 IGO and NGO observers; the Conference also received visits from nine heads of state, two prime ministers and one spouse of a head of state).

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