Word: consulars
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Peres cited the reaction of Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, who personally thanked the chief of an Israeli consular delegation in Moscow, Aryeh Levine, for Israel's help in the affair...
...demanded an end to the state of emergency and the release of more than 800 political detainees. U.S. State Department officials said the escapees would not be forced to leave "against their will." The point was buttressed by a spokesman for the U.S. embassy in Pretoria, who declared that "consular premises are inviolable and host governments may not enter without consent...
...began in the spring of 1987, when he sought to renew the residency permit he had been issued in 1967. The authorities rejected his application and ordered him to leave the country when his tourist visa expired in November. He refused to go, arguing, with strong support from U.S. consular officials, that under international conventions Israel had no right to expel him from the place of his birth. The government put the case on hold...
...whose enemies the U.S.S.R. has traditionally supported. In the Middle East there are signs that the Soviets may finally be willing to put more pressure on the Arabs. Gorbachev has publicly urged Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization to recognize the existence and "legitimate rights" of Israel. A Soviet consular delegation is now in Jerusalem, sent officially to discuss Russian Orthodox Church property in Israel but also as a possible prelude to the re-establishment of diplomatic relations, which Moscow broke off during...
...struggle. This time, though, the drama was real. At 12:40 p.m. last Monday, an Iranian passenger jet landed at Karachi Airport and taxied toward a French Falcon 50 waiting on a cleared section of the tarmac. Pakistani security police held off newsmen and photographers while French and Iranian consular officers supervised the exchange of two passengers. A few moments later, the First Secretary at France's embassy in Tehran, Paul Torri, wearing a tweed sport coat and a scarf against the cold, was in the Falcon en route to Paris. Within 30 minutes, Wahid Gordji, former interpreter...