Liberia dropped diplomatic relations with the ROC on October 12, 2003 and reestablished ties with the People's Republic of China.

Soong May-ling or Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Madame Chiang (; March 5, 1898 – October 23, 2003 ) was a First Lady of the Republic of China ( ROC ), the wife of Generalissimo and President Chiang Kai-shek.

When the Republic of China established diplomatic relations with Kiribati in 2003 the ROC officially declared that Kiribati could continue to have diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.

In early 2003, the Republic of China ( ROC ) government permitted its air carriers to ferry Chinese New Year passengers back and forth across the Strait by way of " indirect charter flights " that touched down briefly in Hong Kong or Macau.

From January 2003, this policy started to be abandoned by most newspapers and TV stations, on the basis that other nations with naming issues such as South Korea ( ROK ) and Taiwan ( ROC ) are not necessarily referred to by their official names.

In 2003, President Chen Shui-bian proposed holding a referendum in 2006 for implementing an entirely new constitution on May 20, 2008 to coincide with the inauguration of the 12th-term president of the ROC.

In 2003, Nauru closed its embassy in Beijing, prompting speculation of an imminent resumption of ties with the ROC.

In 2003, she and another legislator, James To of the Democratic Party, attended a seminar entitled " Hong Kong Under One Country, Two Systems " organised by a pro-Taiwan independence group headed by former ROC President Lee Teng-hui.

In 2003 Wang was elected as the chairman of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, which was a democracy developing project set up by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the ROC.

# Blade Dancer ( ROC, 2003 ) ( ISBN 0-451-45946-6 )

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* 2003: Best Foreign Film ( Y tu mamá también, won )

* 2003 – Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

On 15 October 2003, the Intelligence Services Amendment Bill 2003 was introduced into Parliament by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, as an amendment to the original Intelligence Services Act 2001 ( ISA ).

* Beisner, Robert L. ed, American Foreign Relations since 1600: A Guide to the Literature ( 2003 ), 2 vol.

* Brune, Lester H. Chronological History of U. S. Foreign Relations ( 2003 ), 1400 pages

He defended the book The Israel Lobby and U. S. Foreign Policy and was an outspoken critic of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

* with Robert M. Gates, Iran: Time for a New Approach, Council on Foreign Relations Press ( February 2003 ), ISBN 0-87609-345-4

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Since 2003, Bahrain has been granted over $ 100 million in Foreign Military Funding to pay for various high profile weapons systems, to include an AN / TPS-59 ( v ) 3B Early Warning Radar, Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures ( LAIRCM ), Air-to-Air Missile Avoidance System for the King's Plane ( Boeing 747-400 ), as well as an Avenger Air Defense Vehicle.

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.

Between March 2003 and October 2004, Claudia Roth had been the Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid at the Federal Foreign Office.

* 2003 New York Drama Critics ' Circle Award, Best Foreign Play: Talking Heads

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.

* J. Kelly Failed to Produce ‘ Evidence ’ in Pyongyang-O Song Chol, DPRK Foreign Ministry, January 18, 2003

On the 17th, speeches by Bush and UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw explicitly declared the period of diplomacy to be over, as declared by Resolution 1441's prohibition on giving Iraq new opportunities for compliance, and that no further authorization from the UN would be sought before an invasion of Iraq ( see 2003 invasion of Iraq ).

Foreign dignitaries were described as Ministers in other Churches: for example, George W. Bush usually appeared in the Parish News each week as " Rev Dubya Bush of the Church of the Latter-Day Morons " ( or, in some issues in 2003 — during the Invasion of Iraq and early Iraq War — the Latter-Day Morbombs ), in reference to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( Mormons ).

Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato's Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, criticized many of the arguments offered to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Following the Conservative Party's defeat in the 1997 General Election, Howard unsuccessfully made a bid for the post of Conservative Party leader and held the posts of Shadow Foreign Secretary ( 1997 – 1999 ) and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer ( 2001 – 2003 ).

He came into the international spotlight as Foreign Minister with his opposition to the 2003 invasion of Iraq which culminated with a speech to the UN ( French address on Iraq at the UN Security Council ).

On 17 July 2003, Kelly, an employee of the Ministry of Defence, apparently committed suicide after being misquoted by BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan as saying that Tony Blair's Labour government had knowingly " sexed up " the " September Dossier ", a report into Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.

It is the declared intention of the Interior Ministry to use the borough mechanism in order to facilitate municipal mergers in Israel, after a 2003 wide-reaching merger plan, which, in general, ignored the sensitivities of the communal settlements, and largely failed.

Status was extended to August 2003, when the Israeli Ministry of Interior granted permanent residency.

On 7 October 2003 the South African Justice Ministry officials announced that the five policemen accused of killing Biko would not be prosecuted, because there was insufficient evidence, and because the time limit for prosecution had elapsed.

On 23 January 2003, in an attempt to support the bolivar and bolster the government's declining level of international reserves, as well as to mitigate the adverse impact from the oil industry work stoppage on the financial system, the Ministry of Finance and the central bank suspended foreign exchange trading.

In 2006 the party announced that it would disband itself: it owed a large debt to the Ministry of Home Affairs, who had lent them money for the 2003 elections, and only a handful of paying members were left.

There have been several unverified panther sightings in Mid-Canterbury near Ashburton and in the nearby foothills of the Southern Alps, but searches conducted there in 2003 by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry found no corroborating physical evidence.

In April 2003, the Committee for Promoting Mandarin, which was part of Taiwan's Ministry of Education, released a legislation proposal entitled " Language Equality Law.

Shortly after the US / UK led invasion of Iraq began in 2003, following an admission by the Ministry of Defence that Britain had dropped 50 airborne cluster bombs in the south of Iraq and left behind up to 800 unexploded bomblets, it was put to Hoon in a Radio 4 interview that an Iraqi mother of a child killed by these cluster bombs would not thank the British army.

According to USAID, as of October 2003, peak electrical generation had reached pre-war levels of 4, 500 MW, and they were then collaborating with Bechtel as well as the Iraqi Interior Ministry and others on some 2, 000 MW of projected capacity.

The Ministry of Education of Singapore announced that all primary schools, secondary schools and junior colleges will be shut until April 6, 2003.

Anneli Jäätteenmäki resigned on 18 June 2003, under pressure resulting from the accusation that she had lied to Parliament and the public over how she had acquired confidential Foreign Ministry documents which she used for political purposes during the election campaign.

Barker left the Ministry camp in 2003 due to dissatisfaction with the direction of his life.

In 2003 he was appointed by the Bush administration to head the policy planning advisory board of the Iraqi Oil Ministry.

* Minister at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs ( Nordic cooperation and cooperation with the neighbouring regions ), from 15 April 1999 to 17 April 2003

Ministry of Justice 2003

The following day, 30 May 2003, the Ministry of Defence claimed that one of its officials ( later named as Dr. David Kelly ) had come forward, admitting to having discussed the matter of Iraq's weapons with Gilligan on 22 May.

In 2003 Thales UK's design won the competition for the Royal Navy Future Carrier ( CVF ) and the company now participates in an alliance company with BAE Systems and the UK Ministry of Defence.

In a United Nations UNODC Fact Finding Mission Report dated May 18, 2003, Kerik was cited as leading a small " International Policing Team ", to restructure and rebuild the Iraqi Police and Ministry of Interior.

On 9 December 2002, parliament decided that Flytoget AS would become a separate railway company from 1 January 2003, owned directly by the Ministry of Transport and Communications.

On 18 July 2003, Kelly, an employee of the Ministry of Defence, was found dead after he had been named as the source of quotations used by BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan.

* Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, early UK radio / telephone regulatory department, since 2003 Ofcom has performed its functions