Word: ambassadors
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...China's Ambassador to India, Sun Yuxi, prompted angry rebuttals from Indian officials last week when he reiterated China's claim to the eastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh during a TV appearance, noting it was "Chinese territory" and that China claims the "whole of that" state, which it calls Southern Tibet. Beijing has also complained that Delhi is throwing up unfair barriers to investment by snarling Chinese companies in bureaucratic red tape, and chafed at a decision to bar a company linked to the Chinese military from taking up a lucrative air cargo contract, apparently over security concerns...
...North Korean ambassador to the United Nations, was slated to talk about “challenges in the region” from a North Korean standpoint, according to Kennedy School spokeswoman Melodie L. Jackson. The North Korean nuclear program would have likely been a topic of discussion, she said...
Because North Korea has no diplomatic relations with the United States, its ambassador to the United Nations is required to apply for permission to travel outside of New York...
...know that we’ve certainly issued permission for travel in a number of other places around the country” said then-State Department spokesman Richard A. Boucher of the North Korean ambassador and his aides to the United Nations at a daily press briefing in 2004. “They’ve been out to California; they’ve been to other parts of the nation. So it’s not that unusual for us to issue permission for them to travel from time to time...
...other actors too, the movie was more than just a job: Connelly is an Amnesty International ambassador, and Hounsou has boyhood memories of refugees fleeing war in Liberia for his country, Benin. "To put light to some of the issues," he says, "not just blood diamonds but some of the other problems, it's a great thing to do for my continent...