Foreign aid programs were revamped to give greater emphasis to economic aid and to encourage political reform in recipient nations.

Although the March 2007 issue of Foreign Policy listed BJU as one of " The World's Most Controversial Religious Sites " because of its past influence on American politics, BJU has seen little political controversy since Stephen Jones became president.

The honour had already been proposed in 1931 and 1956, but was vetoed after a Foreign Office report raised concerns over Chaplin's political views and private life ; it was felt that honouring him would damage both the reputation of the British honours system and relations with the United States.

Currently, political power is shared by a Somali president and an Afar prime minister, with an Afar career diplomat as Foreign Minister and other cabinet posts roughly divided.

Eisenhower's stint as president of Columbia University was punctuated by his activity within the Council on Foreign Relations, a study group he led as president concerning the political and military implications of the Marshall Plan, and The American Assembly, Eisenhower's " vision of a great cultural center where business, professional and governmental leaders could meet from time to time to discuss and reach conclusions concerning problems of a social and political nature ".

Assange was granted diplomatic asylum on 16 August 2012, with Foreign Minister Patiño stating that Assange's fears of political persecution were " legitimate ".

The Britannica has an Editorial Board of Advisors, which includes 12 distinguished scholars: author Nicholas Carr, religion scholar Wendy Doniger, political economist Benjamin M. Friedman, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb, computer scientist David Gelernter, Physics Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, philosopher Thomas Nagel, cognitive scientist Donald Norman, musicologist Don Michael Randel, Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch.

* 1968 A group of six Gibraltarian lawyers and businessmen, calling themselves the palomos or ' doves ', advocated a political settlement with Spain in a letter published in the Gibraltar Chronicle, and met with Spanish Foreign Office officials ( a meeting was even held with the Spanish

Mesut Yilmaz's admission sparked political outrage in Greece on Monday, causing Greece's Foreign Ministry spokesman Grigoris Delavekouras to say that the claims were “ serious and must be investigated ,” adding that Athens was awaiting a briefing from Ankara.

After the murder of Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau on 24 June, Himmler's political views veered towards the radical right, and he took part in demonstrations against the Treaty of Versailles.

On several occasions, such as when he used his office to liberate Italian political prisoners in 1864, he was rebuked by the Foreign Office.

Foreign relations of Kazakhstan are primarily based on economic and political security.

Julio Álvarez del Vayo, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, appealed to the League in September 1936 for arms to defend Spain's territorial integrity and political independence.

During the 2009 Malagasy political crisis, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that Russia is " concerned by the increased frequency of attempts on the African continent to resort to non-constitutional methods of solving internal political problems.

In October 2005 the Foreign ministers of both countries met to discuss cooperation on a variety of issues including political, economic, military, educational, and cultural.

Foreign private capital inflows topped $ 300 million in 1999 but, due to economic and political uncertainty, fell to less than $ 100 million in 2001.

At the political level, diplomatic affairs and international relations of Paraguay are officially handled by the Ministry of Foreign Relations, which answers to the executive branch of the government.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called the 2006 Freedom in the World report " prefabricated ", stating that the human rights issues have been turned into a political weapon in particular by the United States.

Mahmud Tarzi, Amanullah's father-in-law and Foreign Minister, encouraged the monarch's interest in social and political reform but urged that it be gradually built upon the basis of a strong central government, as had occurred in Turkey under Kemal Atatürk.

Foreign investors also have been attracted by the infrastructure improvements as well as by the educated and skilled work force and relatively stable political conditions.

Long term political and government appointments, such as those of King Abdullah, who was the Commander of the National Guard from 1963 until 2010, when he then appointed his son to replace him ), Crown Prince Sultan, was Minister of Defence & Aviation from 1962 to 2011, Prince Nayef was the Minister of Interior from 1975 until his death in 2012, Prince Saud has been Minister of Foreign Affairs since 1975 and Prince Salman, was the Governor of the Riyadh Region from 1962 to 2011, resulting in the creation of " power fiefdoms " for senior princes.

However, in Meese v. Keene,, the Court upheld the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, under which several Canadian films were defined as " political propaganda ," requiring their sponsors to be identified.

Foreign policy analysts Hachigian and Sutphen in their book The Next American Century suggest all six powers have similar vested interests in stability and terrorism prevention and trade ; if they can find common ground, then the next decades may be marked by peaceful growth and prosperity.

U. S. analysts discovered no hint in PURPLE of the impending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ; nor could they, as the Japanese were very careful not to discuss their plan in Foreign Office communications.

There have been some differences among western analysts as to the role played by ideology in Al Wefaq ’ s agenda: according to Dr Toby Jones of Swarthmore College, “ Al Wefaq does not espouse a specific ideological vision ”; while Steven Cook of the Council on Foreign Relations has described Al Wefaq ’ s policies towards women as “ outrageous ”

CND's growing support in the 1980s provoked opposition from several sources, including Peace Through Nato, the British Atlantic Committee ( which received government funding ), Women and Families for Defence ( set up by conservative journalist Lady Olga Maitland to oppose the Greenham Common Peace Camp ), the Conservative Party's Campaign for Defence and Multilateral Disarmament, the Coalition for Peace through Security, the Foreign Affairs Research Institute, and The 61, a private sector intelligence agency.

Especially under Joseph Bech, head of the Department of Foreign Affairs, the country participated more actively in several international organizations, in order to ensure its autonomy.

Since independence, with Jaja Wachuku as the first Minister of Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Relations, later called External Affairs, Nigerian foreign policy has been characterized by a focus on Africa as a Regional power and by attachment to several fundamental principles: African unity and independence ; Capability to exercise hegemonic influence in the region: peaceful settlement of disputes ; nonalignment and nonintentional interference in the internal affairs of other nations ; and regional economic cooperation and development.

The Waffen-SS maintained several " Foreign Legions " of personnel from conquered territories and countries allied to Germany.

The farewell dinner to Jardine was held on January 22, 1839 with several members of the Foreign settlement in Canton mostly traders.

The information provided on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Zimbabwe's website is outdated, and due to the country's growing isolation, several embassies that are listed have closed.

The group published a journal, the Christian Observer, edited by Zachary Macaulay and were also credited with the foundation of several missionary and tract societies, including the British and Foreign Bible Society and the Church Missionary Society.

Trying to improve the condition of Christians in general and Catholics in particular behind the Iron Curtain, he engaged in dialogue with Communist authorities at several levels, receiving Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and USSR President Nikolai Podgorny in 1966 and 1967 in the Vatican.

* Interest of the United States in the transfer of German populations from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, and Austria, Foreign relations of the United States: diplomatic papers, Volume II ( 1945 ) pp. 1227 – 1327 ( Note: Page 1227 begins with a Czechoslovak document dated 23 November 1944, several months before Czechoslovakia was " liberated " by the Soviet Army.

During his time, he has faced several shocking incidents, such as the Gothenburg riots in 2001, the 2003 murder of the minister of foreign affairs, Anna Lindh, the tsunami disaster in 2004, and the conflict over the publication of satirical Muhammed cartoons in Danish newspapers, leading to threats of violence against Scandinavians and burning of embassies in the Middle East and the resignation of Swedish Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds.

On March 30, 2012 De Jong and several other prominent CDA members, including fellow former Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers, former Ministers of Foreign Affairs Hans van den Broek, Pieter Kooijmans and Ben Bot.

In May 2003, at the request of the Japan Foreign Ministry, Takara provided Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi with two prototypes of the English version of BowLingual several months before it had been released in North America.

* 1697-To evangelize the English colonies, Thomas Bray, an Anglican preacher who made several missionary trips to North America, begins laying the groundwork for what will be the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts

The main lineage did not produce long-lasting branches ( except the Russian branch, a few generations ), until the riksmarskalk of Sweden ( High Marshal ), Count Ludvig Douglas, Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the late 1800s, had several sons and yet more grandsons.

In response to the refusal of the United States Senate to ratify the treaty, a young member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware, met with the Soviet Foreign Minister Andrey Gromyko, " educated him about American concerns and interests " and secured several changes that neither the U. S. Secretary of State nor President Jimmy Carter could obtain.

After the war, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in several Catholic governments between 1949 and 1954 and as economic advisor to the Belgian government and to the council of ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

The 1840 Catalogue of the Foreign Library offered several hundred titles in German, French, Spanish, Italian and English languages, including:

He then left the Foreign Ministry to work as a journalist for several years, and became the manager of a newspaper company, the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun.

Performer Andy Kaufman was chiefly known to fans through several characters, including the Foreign Man ( later Latka Gravas ), Tony Clifton, and Kaufman's impersonation of Elvis Presley.

" For the next several years, she turned down virtually all film offers, the two exceptions being Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair ( 1948 ), in which she played a congresswoman and rival of Marlene Dietrich, and as a homesteader's wife in the classic Western Shane ( 1953 ), which turned out to be the biggest box-office hit of her career.

After several years of strife, the power struggle was essentially concluded in 2000, when Stoltenberg became the party's prime minister candidate and Jagland settled as Minister of Foreign Affairs.