After the missing councillors eventually arrived in Bahrain they defended their Bangkok stay, telling journalists it was a " fact-finding mission ", explaining: " We benefited a lot from the trip to Thailand because we saw how they managed their transport, landscaping and roads.

On arriving in Bahrain on 16 February she reverted to the original mission objects of Operation Slipper ( that of enforcing UN Sanctions against Iraq ).

In 2010, Qatar twice offered to restore trade relations with Israel and allow the reinstatement of the Israeli mission in Doha, on condition that Israel allow Qatar to send building materials and money to Gaza to help rehabilitate infrastructure, and that Israel make a public statement expressing appreciation for Qatar's role and acknowledging its standing in the Middle East.

The Embassy of Qatar in Washington, D. C. houses Qatar's diplomatic mission to the United States.

Qatar Foundation carries out this mission through three " pillars ": education, science and research, and community development.

Mr. Hammarskjold was in Africa on a mission of peace.

We shall not make a decisive advance in the ecumenical movement until such a church begins to see itself not merely as a haven of comfort and peace but as a base of Christian witness and mission to the world.

The UN continues to maintain a peace building mission in Bangui.

The peace agreement would be completed with the implementation of the Border Commission's ruling, which would also end the task of the peacekeeping mission.

An agreement signed in September 1996, which is one of the substantive peace accords, mandated that the mission of the armed forces change to focus exclusively on external threats.

Its mission is protection of German and Allied territories as well as peace-keeping and peace enforcement operations.

At the proposal of the Permanent Delegations of Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey, and as approved by its Executive Board and General Conference in conformity with its mission of “ constructing in the minds of men the defences of peace ”, UNESCO was associated with the celebration, in 2007, of the eight hundredth anniversary of Rumi's birth.

On 1 March 1940, Ribbentrop received Sumner Welles, the American Under-Secretary of State, who was on a peace mission for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and did his best to abuse his American guest.

It was the first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.

Muhammad's worldwide mission was to establish universal peace under the Khilafat.

The olive branch, a symbol of peace, and the lightning flashes, symbolic of speed and power are qualities underlying the mission of the Strategic Air Command.

* To All Who These Presents Shall Come, Greeting: Know Ye, that in consequence of propositions of peace, or cessation of hostilities, being submitted to me, as Commandant of the California Battalion of the United States forces, which have so far been acceded to by me as to cause me to appoint a board of commissioners to confer with a similar board appointed by the Californians, and it requiring a little time to close the negotiations ; it is agreed upon and ordered by me that an entire cessation of hostilities shall take place until to-morrow afternoon ( January 13 ), and that the said Californians be permitted to bring in their wounded to the mission of San Fernando, where, also, if they choose, they can move their camp to facilitate said negotiations.

The University has also established the UPEACE Human Rights Centre which was created within the contours of the broader mission of the University to provide humanity with an international institution of higher education for peace and with the aim of promoting among all human beings the spirit of understanding, tolerance and peaceful coexistence, to stimulate cooperation among peoples and to help lessen obstacles and threats to world peace and progress, in keeping with the noble aspirations proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations.

The Headquarters and main campus of UPEACE also hosts the International Secretariat of the Earth Charter Initiative, whose stated mission is " to promote the transition to sustainable ways of living and a global society founded on a shared ethical framework that includes respect and care for the community of life, ecological integrity, universal human rights, respect for diversity, economic justice, democracy, and a culture of peace.

These spiritual attitudes not only guided Canada's relations with Hitler but gave the prime minister the comforting sense of a higher mission, that of helping to lead Hitler to peace.

** Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland, claiming to be on a peace mission.

Some liberation theologians base their social action upon the Bible scriptures describing the mission of Jesus Christ, as bringing a sword ( social unrest ), e. g.,, — and not as bringing peace ( social order ).

Britain sent a peace mission to Bhutan in early 1864, in the wake of the recent conclusion of a civil war there.

The British mission dealt alternately with the rival ponlop of Paro and the ponlop of Tongsa ( the latter acted on behalf of the Druk Desi ), but Bhutan rejected the peace and friendship treaty it offered.

The peace mission was entrusted to Pedro de Ayala.

After 1973, the Jarring mission was replaced by bilateral and multilateral peace conferences.

* 430 Failed peace mission by Athens, bubonic plague year, Sparta takes no prisoners

As President of the UN Foundation ( UNF ) since its inception in early 1998, Wirth has organized and led the formulation of the Foundation ’ s mission and program priorities, which include the environment, women and population, children ’ s health, and peace, security and human rights.

And the major part of my mission to your nest is to make a treaty between your race and mine.

In 1857 an addendum to the 1855 treaty permitted a British military mission to become a presence in Kandahar ( but not Kabul ) during a conflict with the Persians, who had attacked Herat in 1856.

The 1838 mission offered a treaty providing for extradition of Bhutanese officials responsible for incursions into Assam, free and unrestricted commerce between India and Bhutan, and settlement of Bhutan's debt to the British.

It had also failed in its principal mission of securing a commercial treaty with Calicut.

The follow-up expedition, the Second India Armada launched in 1500, was placed under the command Pedro Álvares Cabral, with the mission of making a treaty with the Zamorin of Calicut and setting up a Portuguese factory in the city.

Having returned to England, in 1093 Edgar went to Scotland again on a diplomatic mission for William to negotiate with Malcolm, who was dissatisfied with the Norman failure to implement in full the terms of the 1091 treaty.

Usually skippets were made out of sterling silver, though for the Japanese treaty following Commodore Perry's mission a golden box was used ( the ratification of that treaty, made later in 1854, had an even more elaborate and expensive seal and heavy gold skippet ).

In the first episode in which she appears, entitled " Ensign Ro ", she is given a full pardon in exchange for going on a secret mission to help stop dissident raids, in order to protect a treaty with Cardassia.

After bloody conflicts with Tibet's poorly-armed defenders, the mission penetrated to Lhasa, where a treaty was signed in September 1904.

In 1795, he went on a diplomatic mission to The Hague, and was instrumental in drawing up a treaty between the French and Batavian republics.

The treaty of independence granted France the right to have a military mission in Laos.

Delegates did not view themselves as builders of an American nation ; rather, they were colonists with the more limited mission of pursuing a treaty with the Mohawks.

However, the Foreign Secretary, George Canning, chose him as the secretary of Lord Pembroke's mission to Vienna, aimed at securing a new treaty of alliance between Britain and Austria.

The leader of the diplomatic mission Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, believed that he had managed to negotiate a treaty to stop the slavery of Christians and returned to England.

The mission visits Moscow, where in March it signs a Turco-Afghan treaty providing for mutual assistance between the two countries in case of attack by a third party.

The successful conclusion of the treaty was very well received in Japan and further raised Enomoto's prestige within the ruling circles, and the fact that Enomoto had been chosen for such an important mission was seen as evidence of reconciliation between former foes in the government.

Soon after his return to India in 1835 he was appointed to the court of Sindh to secure a treaty for the navigation of the Indus and in 1836 he undertook a political mission to Dost Mahommed Khan at Kabul.

In 1855 he accompanied Bowring to Siam ( now Thailand ) as joint secretary to the mission to conclude a commercial treaty with the kingdom.

As soon as her husband was released by the Burmese, Ann wrote that one good result of the war could be that terms of the treaty which ceded Burmese provinces to the British might provide opportunity to expand the witness of the mission into unreached parts of the country.

In February 1921, the British Parliament approved the agreement and Egypt was asked to send another mission to London with full powers to conclude a definitive treaty.

The treaty was achieved by Brandenburg's diplomat, Christoph Caspar von Blumenthal, on the first diplomatic mission of his career.

* The peace treaties: comprising the league of nations covenant, digest of the German treaty, digest of the Austrian treaty, with annotations by the American mission at the peace conference ; milestones on the road to victory indexed, authors Publicity Corporation, Continental National Bank.