The craft made the familiar unwelcome flight to Havana, where, for some unknown reason, Castro rushed to the airport to express mortification to the Colombian foreign minister, a passenger, who is not an admirer of old Ten O'Clock Shadow.

* 1893 – Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Nazi foreign minister ( d. 1946 )

* 2005 – Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is fatally shot by an LTTE sniper at his home.

* 1863 – Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister ( d. 1942 )

In May 2007 the executor of his widow's estate, French foreign minister Roland Dumas, was convicted of illegally selling Giacometti's works to a top auctioneer.

" The members of the CDN are the president, the vice president, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, the president of the Senate, the minister of justice, military ministers, the minister of foreign affairs, and the minister of planning.

The president is the commander in chief of the armed forces, has the procedural duty of appointing the prime minister with the consent of the Sabor ( Parliament ) through a simple majority vote, and has some influence on foreign policy.

Cuba's present foreign minister is Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.

Andrei Gromyko, the longtime foreign minister, proposed Gorbachev as a candidate for the General Secretaryship.

Napoleon's foreign minister, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, once remarked: " Empire is the art of putting men in their place ".

The U. S. Secretary of State is analogous to the foreign minister of other nations and is the official charged with state-to-state diplomacy, although the president has ultimate authority over foreign policy ; that policy includes defining the national interest, as well as the strategies chosen both to safeguard that and to achieve its policy goals.

The United States Secretary of State is the foreign minister of the United States and is the primary conductor of state-to-state diplomacy.

The foreign minister, Osborne Riviere immediately became prime minister, but the education minister, Roosevelt Skerrit succeeded him as prime minister and became the new leader of the Dominica Labour Party.

For example, Brazil's foreign minister, Celso Amorim, condemned the Colombian incursion into Ecuador.

In December 1999 Estonian foreign minister ( and since 2006, president of Estonia ) Toomas Hendrik Ilves delivered a speech entitled " Estonia as a Nordic Country " to the Swedish Institute for International Affairs .< ref >

" One of his great supporters in Berlin was Walther Rathenau, later the German foreign minister, who greatly contributed to his success.

One of the last detainees was the Aceh separatist Hasan di Tiro who, while a student in New York in 1953, declared himself the " foreign minister " of the rebellious Darul Islam movement.

* Spanish foreign minister Juan Valera's Pepita Jimenez ( 1874 ) is writing in three sections, with the first and third being a series of letters, while the middle part is a narration by an unknown observer.

* foreign minister — overseeing state's ambassadors, managing and determining foreign policy

Despite the party's weaknesses, Sinclair gained a high profile as he sought to recall the Midlothian Campaign and once more revitalise the Liberals as the party of a strong foreign policy.

One could note a certain irony: one of the first acts of many of the newly independent states was to adopt the law of the foreign sovereign from whom independence had just been gained.

Relations between the Republic of Vanuatu and Cuba began shortly after the former gained its independence from France and the United Kingdom in 1980, and began establishing its own foreign policy as a newly independent state.

The office originally granted the holder the ability to speak first at session on the topic presented by the presiding magistrate, but eventually gained the power to open and close the senate sessions, decide the agenda, decide where the session should take place, impose order and other rules of the session, meet in the name of the senate with embassies of foreign countries, and write in the name of the senate letters and dispatches.

With the resources thus gained he undertook to enable Philip V to carry out an ambitious foreign policy to undo the Treaty of Utrecht, with the aim of countering the Habsburgs and recovering Spanish possessions in Italy, where he was responsible for unwarranted invasions of Sardinia ( November 1717, strongly supported by Sardinian politician Vicente Bacallar ) and Sicily ( July 1718 ), in spite of promises made to the Pope, while pressing Spanish causes in France with the Cellamare Conspiracy.

As a result of his illness and these foreign trips, Gardner ultimately never attended school, or gained any formal education.

* John-James Ford ( born 1972 ), Canadian foreign service officer who gained notability as poet, short story writer and novelist ; winner of 2006 Ottawa Book Award

Niue gained its autonomy in 1974 in free association with New Zealand, which handles the island's military and foreign affairs.

In February the following year, China's alleged role in the campaign finance controversy first gained public attention after the Washington Post published a story stating that a U. S. Department of Justice investigation had discovered evidence that agents of China sought to direct contributions from foreign sources to the DNC before the 1996 presidential campaign.

Contemporary opinion was, of course, incompetent to estimate the permanent results gained for the country by the brilliant foreign policy of Pitt.

They gained control of the party organization through the creation of a committee called the Komitet Zagraniczny-KZ, which dealt with the party's foreign relations.

French foreign minister and former UN Kosovo chief, Bernard Kouchner, warned that a unilateral declaration would split the European Union over recognition of the independence, whilst US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack commented that, ' There is nothing to be gained by short-circuiting the diplomatic process that is under way.

By seizing northwestern Poland, Prussia instantly gained control over 80 % of the Commonwealth's total foreign trade.

In 1954, Suriname gained self-government, with the Netherlands retaining control of defence and foreign affairs.

Even as a child he gained knowledge of two foreign languages.

During the 1950s, nationalism gained the upper hand in the four East African territories, the achievement of closer relations among the four also became an important foreign policy objective.

The Standard gained eminence for its detailed foreign news, with its reporting events of the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, and of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, all contributing to a rise in circulation.

During the Second Intermediate Period, a group of Asiatic foreign chiefs known as the Hyksos ( literally, " rulers of foreign lands ") gained the rulership of Egypt, and ruled the Nile Delta, from Avaris.

Aggression toward missionaries and Christians gained the attention of foreign ( mainly European ) governments.

Throughout his years as Dutch foreign minister, Luns had gained an international status uncommon for a foreign minister of a small country.

She also was responsible for recording the speeches the pharaoh made during the crowning ceremony and approving the inventory of foreign captives and goods gained in military campaigns.

For example in 1976 foreign soldiers fighting for FNLA were captured by the MPLA in the civil war that broke out when Angola gained independence from Portugal in 1975.

From Okakura, he gained much of his fascination for aesthetics and perhaps foreign languages, as indeed his fascination with the peculiar cultural codes of the pleasure quarters of Japan owes something to the fact that his mother had once been a geisha.