who was appointed the minister of foreign trade in 2007
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Ireland)


The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFA/DFAT) () is a department of the Government of Ireland that is responsible for promoting the interests of Ireland in the European Union and the wider world. The head of the Department is the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade who is assisted by two Ministers of State. The position of Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade is traditionally regarded as one of the most prestigious appointments in the Government of Ireland, below that of Taoiseach and Minister for Finance. The official headquarters and
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Charles Flanagan


Justice, Equality and Law Reform from 2007 to 2010, and was the party Spokesperson on Children from 2010 to 2011. He was Chair of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party from June 2011 to May 2014. On 7 May 2014, Following the resignation of Alan Shatter as Minister for Justice and Minister for Defence, Flanagan was appointed the following day as Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to succeed Frances Fitzgerald, who assumed the Justice portfolio. On 11 July 2014, Flanagan was appointed as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, succeeding
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Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina


, is nominated by the Presidency and approved by the House of Representatives. He appoints the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Foreign Trade and other ministers as may be appropriate (no more than two thirds of the ministers may be appointed from the territory of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina), who assume the office upon the approval by the House of Representatives; also, the Chair appoints deputy ministers (who may not be from the same constituent people as their ministers), who assume the office upon the approval
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Péter Szijjártó


Péter Szijjártó (; born 30 October 1978) is a Hungarian politician, who has been Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade since 23 September 2014. He previously served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. In June 2012 he was appointed to State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations of the Prime Minister's Office. He joined Fidesz in 1998. He was elected to member of the municipal government in the same year in the city of Győr, and
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Teresa Gambaro


, account manager, marketing manager, marketing consultant and tutor in marketing at the Queensland University of Technology before entering politics. Gambaro was first elected to parliament as a Liberal at the 1996 federal election, in the division of Petrie. She was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence in July 2004, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in January 2006. In 2007 she was appointed Assistant Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. Gambaro lost her seat to Yvette D'Ath of the Labor Party at the 2007 federal
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Paul Tiensten


a Project Manager for the World Bank funded Gas Development and Utilization Technical Assistance Project. Tiensten was first elected to parliament in 2002 and was appointed as the Chairman of the Special Parliamentary Committee on Gas and Energy Development. He was later appointed Trade and Industry Minister on 12 November 2003 and served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2007 under then Prime Minister Michael Somare. He was re-elected in 2007 for a second term of Parliament as Minister for National Planning and District Development, but lost his portfolio in August 2011
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Philip Yeo


Singapore's biomedical hub Biopolis. Yeo stepped down as Chairman of A*STAR and become chairman of the Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board (Spring Singapore) on 1 April 2007. He was also appointed senior adviser on science and technology to the Minister for Trade and Industry. In his role as Adviser for Economic Development in the Prime Minister's Office from April 2007 to August 2011, Yeo assisted in expanding Singapore's economic space through forging new economic links and providing strategic inputs in Singapore government partnerships with foreign governments who value Singapore's
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Lin Haiyun


Lin Haiyun (; 1911 – 7 January 2007) was a Chinese politician. A long-time deputy to Ye Jizhuang, Minister of Foreign Trade, he was appointed Acting Minister of Foreign Trade in February 1965 after Ye was incapacitated by a stroke. He served in the position for five years, mostly during the chaotic Cultural Revolution. He attempted to maintain economic order, but was attacked by the Red Guards and dismissed in July 1970. Lin was born in 1911 in Longyan, Fujian Province. He enlisted in the Chinese Red
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Stefan Wallin


Swedish People's Party. He served as a Special Adviser successively to the Ministers of Transport, European Affairs and Foreign Trade, Interior, and Defence from 1994 to 2000. He was Deputy Editor-in-Chief and a leader writer for the newspaper "Åbo Underrättelser" from 2000 to 2005. He then served as State Secretary to the Minister of the Environment from 2005 to 2007. Wallin was appointed Minister of the Environment and Minister at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs responsible for Nordic Cooperation by President Tarja Halonen on 29 December
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Lisa Shoman


of Belize to Canada until 2003. She was also appointed Belize’s Ambassador to the United States in August 2000. During her tenure, Shoman served as Vice-Chair of the Permanent Council of the OAS. In June 2007, then Prime Minister Said Musa appointed her to the Senate, and made her the country’s first female Minister of Foreign Affairs & Foreign Trade. Shoman held this position until Musa’s party, the People's United Party, ceded power in 2008, when she returned to private practice. Shoman has
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Minister for Foreign Affairs (Australia)


The Minister for Foreign Affairs (commonly shortened to Foreign Minister) is the minister in the Government of Australia who is responsible for overseeing the international diplomacy section of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Senator Marise Payne was appointed as Foreign Minister by Prime Minister Scott Morrison in August 2018 following the resignation of Julie Bishop. A subordinate position, Minister for International Development and the Pacific, has been held by Alex Hawke since 26 May 2019. This position was previously held by Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells from 2016 to 2018,
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Netherlands)


Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation () is a Minister without portfolio within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The current Minister is Sigrid Kaag. The Ministry was formed in 1798 as the Department of Foreign Affairs. Since 1965 a special Minister for International Development has been appointed in each government with the exception of the First Balkenende cabinet and the First Rutte cabinet). The Ministry is responsible for the foreign relations of the Netherlands and its responsibilities are as follows: The Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Foreign Trade and
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Ano Pala


to successfully bring down the government in a parliamentary motion of no confidence. Peter O'Neill became Prime Minister, and appointed Pala as his Minister for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Immigration. Pala had previously served as parliamentary clerk, but resigned that position to stand (successfully) for Parliament in the 2007 general election. In 2009, he publicly supported Eastern Highlands Provincial Governor Malcolm Smith Kela who petitioned the government to "intervene to protect our citizens of [sic] the action of Asian businessmen", whom he claimed had "exploited
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Epeli Nailatikau


and of the House Committee. On 8 January 2007, he was appointed the interim Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade; he was moved to the post of interim Minister for Provincial Development and Multi-Ethnic Affairs in September 2008. In October 2008, he became Indigenous Affairs Minister "and effectively Great Council of Chiefs chairman". On 17 April 2009, he was appointed Vice-President by the Military government. On 30 July 2009, he became Acting President after the retirement of President Josefa Iloilo. On 5 November
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Salaheddine Mezouar


Salaheddine Mezouar ( – born 11 December 1953, Meknes) is a Moroccan politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 10 October 2013 until 2017. In 2004, he was appointed Minister of Industry, Trade and Restructuring of the Economy. On 15 October 2007, he was appointed Minister of Finance and the Economy. In January 2010, he was elected president of the National Rally of Independents party. Mezouar is also a former international basketball player. In July 2012 Mezouar was involved in a scandal related to wage bonuses along with Noureddine
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Ole Norrback


joined the government as the Minister of Defence in 1987, he was a Minister of Education 1990 to 1991, Minister to the Ministry of Agriculture from 1987 to 1991, Minister of Transport and Communication 1991 to 1995, Europe and Foreign Trade Minister 1995 to 1999, and Minister of Nordic Cooperation 1991 to 1999. Thereafter he left the politics and became a diplomat. He was ambassador to Oslo 1999 to 2003, and was appointed ambassador to Athens in 2003 to 2007. Norrback was a minister for 4,370 days. He was given
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Minister for Foreign Affairs (Australia)


the Keating Government, the Trade portfolio has been administered separately by the Minister for Trade. The following individuals have been appointed as Minister for Foreign Affairs, or any of its precedent titles: Notes The Minister for International Development was responsible, in the Rudd Cabinet, for the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and the international development and humanitarian aid policies of the Commonwealth of Australia, administered through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). AusAID was abolished by the incoming prime minister, Tony Abbott, in
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Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové


Jean-Lucien Kwassi Lanyo Savi de Tové (born 7 May 1939) is a Togolese politician who served in the government of Togo as Minister of Trade from 2005 to 2007. Savi de Tové was born in Lomé and is a member of the Ewé ethnic group. Following the January 1967 coup, he was appointed as Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 6 February 1967. Kouanvi Tigoue was later appointed to replace Savi de Tové in an interim capacity on 21 November 1974 after the latter when on leave for
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Kokou Tozoun


Kokou Biossey Tozoun is a Togolese politician who was Minister of Justice from 2007 to March 2011. After serving as Minister of the Civil Service, Work and Employment, Tozoun was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in the government named on July 29, 2003. He was Foreign Minister for two years before being appointed as Minister of Communication and Civic Education in the government named on June 20, 2005. At the 2006 Inter-Togolese Dialogue, Tozoun signed the Global Political Accord on the electoral process on behalf of the
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Rabbie Namaliu


Before becoming prime minister, he served as foreign minister for the first time, from 1982 to 1984, by this time beginning his long alliance with Michael Somare, who was prime minister at that time and served as foreign minister while Namaliu was prime minister. He was appointed foreign minister in 2002, as part of the National Alliance Party government of Michael Somare. He served as foreign minister until 12 July 2006 when he became finance minister during a cabinet reshuffle. Sir Rabbie subsequently lost his seat of Kokopo Open at the 2007
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Jean-David Levitte


, who was appointed on August 1, 2007. On May 16, 2007, Levitte was appointed as diplomatic advisor and sherpa to President Nicolas Sarkozy, and the head of a future American-style National Security Council. The nature and extent of his new role were not immediately clear. While some commentators suggested he would not eclipse Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Bernard Kouchner, Levitte was elsewhere referred to as "seemingly the true Minister of Foreign Affairs." Despite assertions made while campaigning, it was still unclear to what
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Oleg Davydov


Oleg Dmitriyevich Davydov (; born 25 May 1940) is a Russian economist who formerly served in the Russian government of Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin as the minister and Deputy Chairman of Government responsible for foreign economic relations. In this position he led negotiations for Russia's first bid to join the World Trade Organization. After being appointed Deputy Prime Minister for foreign trade in the fall of 1993, he began to liberalize Russia's export regulations in order to appeal to Western economic partners. This was also part of an effort to eventually join the
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Ron Hoffmann


Office of the Premier of Ontario. Hoffmann joined Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1989. Between 1989 and 2004, he held numerous sub-Ambassadorial postings at Canadian missions in The Hague, Johannesburg, Beijing and London. While in London, Hoffmann was minister (political affairs and public diplomacy). From 2001 to 2002, Hoffmann served as a Senior Departmental Assistant to former Ministers of Foreign Affairs John Manley and Bill Graham. In 2007, Hoffmann was appointed Canadian first dedicated Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan, and
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Zheng Tuobin


of Gang of Four remnants. He became Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade in 1977 and was promoted to Minister in September 1981. In March 1982, the Ministry of Foreign Trade merged with the Ministry of Foreign Economic Liaison, headed by Chen Muhua, to form the new Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations. Chen became head of the new ministry, while Zheng the First Vice-Minister. On 21 March 1985, Zheng was promoted to Minister when Chen was appointed President of the People's Bank of China. In the aftermath of
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John M. Kelly (politician)


, at which point he became Attorney General of Ireland, succeeding Declan Costello upon the latter's appointment to the High Court. He served in Garret FitzGerald's first Cabinet from 1981 until 1982 as Minister for Trade, Commerce and Tourism. Kelly was also appointed as acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, pending the appointment of James Dooge, who was to appointed to the Seanad, and as a Minister in October 1981. Kelly declined appointment to FitzGerald's second government (1982–87). Kelly felt that Irish politics should be aligned more
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Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia)


broadly classified into the following matters as laid out in an Administrative Arrangements Order issued on 18 September 2013: DFAT is administered by a senior executive, comprising a secretary and five deputy secretaries. On the recommendation of the Prime Minister, the Governor-General has appointed the following individuals as Secretary to the department: The department is responsible to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, the Minister for International Development and the Pacific, and the Assistant Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment. The
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Choi Young-jin


had studied medicine at the Severance Medical College in Korea for four years. A career diplomat, before being appointed Special representative of the Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, Choi has served in various capacities in the foreign service of the Republic of Korea. From 2005 to 2007, he was the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations. In 2004, he was the Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade. In 2003, he served as Chancellor of Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS)
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Phạm Bình Minh


a member of the 13th National Assembly in November 2008. He was appointed Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs in September 2006 and Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs in November 2007, then Permanent Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam until August 2011. On 13 November 2013, he was designated as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Viet Nam by the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam. Prior to that time, he was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Viet Nam on 3 August 2011 and since then
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Zarifou Ayéva


Zarifou Ayéva (born April 22, 1942) is a Togolese politician and the President of the Party for Democracy and Renewal (PDR). He served in the government of Togo as a minister during the 1970s and became an opposition leader in the early 1990s. He was a minor candidate in the 1998 presidential election and later served as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2007. Ayéva was born in Sokodé, Tchaoudjo Prefecture. He was appointed to the government as Minister of Trade, Industry, and Transport on
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Antony Phillipson


2002–04, as the Prime Minister's Private Secretary for Foreign Affairs 2004–07, as head of the Iran Co-ordination Group at the FCO 2007–10, and as High Commissioner to Singapore from 2011 to April 2015 when he was replaced to transfer to another Diplomatic Service appointment. He was Director of Trade and Partnerships in the Department for Exiting the European Union until November 2017, when he was appointed HMs Consuls-General in New York and Director-General of International Trade North America. In addition to his diplomacy-related career,
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Martín Buzzi


term as Director of the Municipal Employment and Production Bureau was followed in December 2003 by his appointment as Provincial Minister of Production by the newly elected Governor, Mario Das Neves; Das Neves appointed him Minister of Foreign Trade, Tourism, and Investment in February 2007. He resigned in July, and ran successfully for the post of Mayor of Comodoro Rivadavia on the Justicialist Party ticket. Buzzi maintained a low profile as mayor, during which tenure he also avoided aligning himself too visibly with any one faction of the traditionally fractious Peronist movement
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Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia)


The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (also called DFAT, ˈdiː.fæˑt, DEE-fat) is the department of the Government of Australia responsible for foreign policy, foreign relations, foreign aid, consular services, and trade and investment. The head of the department is the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, presently Frances Adamson, who reports to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, presently Senator Marise Payne. Subordinate ministers include the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, presently Senator Simon Birmingham; the Assistant Minister
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Costa Rica–India relations


1990. However, plans to open the embassy were delayed. Costa Rica announced its intention to open an embassy in 2007. The embassy in New Delhi was finally opened on 20 April 2010. It was served by a Charge d’ Affaires from June 2010 until the first ambassador of Costa Rica to India was appointed in June 2011. The Indian Embassy in Panama is jointly accredited to Costa Rica. Costa Rican Vice President Ana Helena Chacon Echeverria visited India in October 2015. Several Costa Rican Foreign Ministers, Ministers for Foreign Trade
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Ker Sin Tze


his PhD in Economics from the University of Manitoba, Canada. From 1994 to 2001, he was Managing Director of Yenom Holdings Pte Ltd. Both Liang Court and Yenom Holdings belonged to billionaire Goh Cheng Liang. On 1 March 2001, he was elected as an Independent Director to the Board of Tung Lok Group. From October 2002 to June 2007, he was appointed Trade Representative in the Singapore Trade Office in Taipei. From July to December 2007, Ker was the Special Adviser to Minister for Foreign Affairs. In January 2008,
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Epeli Nailatikau


of the House of Representatives, a position he held until after the 2006 elections. Following the coup d'état of 5 December 2006, he was sworn in as Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade in the new interim government of Prime Minister Commodore Frank Bainimarama on 8 January 2007. He was nominated to become the new vice-president by the Fiji president Ratu Josefa Iloilo on 10 April 2007, but was rejected by the GCC. On 17 April 2009, after Fiji experienced a constitutional crisis, Ratu Epeli was appointed Vice President
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Nobuhiko Ushiba


Foreign Exchange Control Board in 1949, where as chief of the secretariat he supervised the investment of foreign funds in industries that were essential to Japan's economic recovery. He was appointed Director-General of the International Trade Bureau in Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry in 1951. He was appointed a counsellor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1954, and later that year served as a delegate to the Japan-Sweden trade talks. Ushiba's overseas service began in 1955, when he was appointed deputy minister in Japan
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Milan Parivodić


the Serbian ministry of foreign economic relations. He was on recommended lawyers list of the US, UK and German embassies in Belgrade. Also he was registered as patent & trade mark attorney with the Yugoslav federal intellectual property. He is sworn-in court translator for English language of the district court of Belgrade. He was appointed as a Minister of Foreign Economic Relations on October 19, 2004,replacing Predrag Bubalo who became Minister of Economy. While serving as minister of Foreign Economic Relations FDI into Serbia has risen from US$960 million(2004)
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Minister of International Trade Diversification


The Minister of International Trade Diversification () is a Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet. The minister has responsibility for the international trade portfolio and is one of the three ministers (along with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of International Development and La Francophonie) who lead the Canadian foreign ministry, Global Affairs Canada. The post was first established in 1983 as the Minister for International Trade. This title changed to Minister of International Trade under Prime Minister Paul Martin when he split the former Department of Foreign Affairs
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Inam-ul-Haq (diplomat)


INAMU-UL-HAQ (born 10 November 1940) is a Pakistani career diplomat who served as the Foreign Minister of Pakistan in the caretaker government of Muhammad Mian Soomro for four months from November 2007 till March 2008. He also remained Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from June 2002 till the appointment of Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri as Foreign Minister in November 2002, and Foreign Secretary, the highest post of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, after he replaced Shamshad Ahmad in February 2000. Haq served as Pakistan Ambassador to Turkey, China (
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Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi


Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi is a Motswana journalist and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Botswana from 2014 until December 2018. She was appointed to the National Assembly of Botswana in 1999 as one of the four specially selected members and was re-elected in the 2004 general elections. Venson-Moitoi was the Minister of Works, Transport and Communications from 2001 to 2002 and Minister of Trade, Industry, Wildlife and Tourism from 2002 to 2004. She was appointed as the Minister of Communications, Science, and Technology in
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Foreign relations of China


trading partner and destination for Australian raw material export for the growth of Australian economy. The two countries are currently strengthening their economic relations. The 2007 election of Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister of Australia has been seen as favourable to Sino-Australian relations, notably in view of the fact that he is the first Australian Prime Minister to speak fluent Mandarin, and that closer engagement with Asia is one of the "Three Pillars" of his foreign policy. In 2004, Rudd, who at the time was Shadow Minister for Foreign
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Sakari Tuomioja


Ryti had resigned because of his warguild sentencing. Tuomioja served as Minister of Finance at the Paasikivi II and Paasikivi III Government's between 1944-1945 representing the Progressive Party. Between 1950 and 1951, he was Minister of Trade and Industry and Minister of Foreign Affairs at the Kekkonen I Government. Between 1951 and 1952, he was Minister for Foreign Affairs at the Kekkonen III Government. Tuomioja was appointed on 11 April 1950 to head the Finnish delegation in trade negotiations with the Soviet Union. A five-year trade agreement was
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Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu


Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu (; born 22 September 1968) is a Romanian historian, politician and former Prime Minister of Romania. He was the foreign minister of Romania from 28 December 2004 to 12 March 2007, and he was appointed as Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service later in 2007. Following the resignation of the Emil Boc government he was appointed Prime Minister serving through April 2012 when his cabinet was dismissed following a parliamentary vote of no-confidence. He was confirmed by the Parliament for a second term as Director of the Foreign Intelligence
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Gary Quinlan


attached to the Economic Development Institute, World Bank in Washington D.C. (1984). Quinlan served as Chief of Staff to the Minister for Trade (1993–94) and Minister for Industry, Science and Technology (1994–96), Peter Cook, and more recently served as Deputy Head of Mission, Australian Embassy Washington DC (2005–07) and High Commissioner to Singapore (2001–05). From 2007, until his appointment as Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in 2009, Quinlan was the Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister on Foreign
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Ian Pearson


forced to resign in 1998. In 2001 he returned to the government as a whip. In 2002 he moved to the Northern Ireland Office as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State. After the 2005 general election he was promoted to Minister of State for Trade in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In the PM's 2006 reshuffle, he was appointed as Minister of State for Climate Change and Environment at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. In an interview with "The Guardian" published on 5 January 2007,
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Mohammed Murad Ghaleb


Mohammed Murad Ghaleb (1 April 1922 – 18 December 2007 in Cairo) was an Egyptian politician and diplomat who studied medicine at Cairo University. Ghaleb supported the revolution of 1952, and between 1955 and 1960 served as Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs. From 1960-1961 served as Ambassador to Congo. Between 1961 and 1971 served as Ambassador to the Soviet Union. In 1971 was appointed as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from January to September 1972. In 1973-1974 served in
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Doreen Steidle


Systems and Planning at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. In 2000, Steidle was appointed Canada's High Commissioner to the Republic of Singapore where she served for three years. In 2004, Steidle was appointed Director General of the Passport Office, a Special Operating Agency of the Department of Foreign Affairs which was renamed Passport Canada in 2005. Steidle was the first CEO of Passport Canada. In 2006, Steidle was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister (Corporate Services) at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. In 2008
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Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir


list of 25 MKT. After winning the 1978 elections, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1982), Deputy Foreign Minister (1983), Deputy Minister of Domestic Trade (1990), Deputy Minister of Human Resources (1995) and Deputy Minister of Home Affairs (1999). Former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr Mahathir Mohamad has appointed Abdul Kadir as the full minister of Culture, Arts and Tourism in 1999. He is also the Chairman of the Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board (1999)
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Kassym-Jomart Tokayev


Kazakhstan. In January 2002, he resigned and was subsequently appointed Secretary of State – Minister of Foreign Affairs. Tokayev continued to serve as Minister of Foreign Affairs until January 2007 when he was elected as a Chairman of the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Tokayev held the post of Foreign Minister for ten years (1994–1999, 2002–2007). As a Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tokayev played an active role in the field of nuclear non-proliferation. In 1995 and 2005, he participated in the Review Conferences
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union)


, who were appointed by the Council of Ministers. The MER was responsible for taking care of the USSR's economic and political interests abroad, although economic interests were also the joint responsibility of the Ministry of Foreign Trade. The State Committee of the Council of Ministers on Cultural Links with Foreign Nations and the Ministry of Culture worked jointly with the MER in regards to the protection of Soviet citizens abroad, the exercise of overall Soviet consular relations abroad and the promotion of Soviet culture abroad. A less visible duty of the MER was
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Foreign relations of Ireland


years due to the rapid expansion of the Chinese economy, China is becoming a key trade partner of Ireland, with over $6bn worth of bilateral trade between the two countries in 2010. In July 2013, the Irish Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade were invited to China by the Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi on a trade mission to boost both investment and political ties between the two countries. Ireland has raised its concerns in the area of human rights with China on a number of occasions. On 12 May 2007
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Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham


can know... They have to rely on what advisers tell them and what the executive team tells them. It is important that people understand this." On 29 June 2007, Jones became Minister of State for Trade and Investment in both the newly created Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and the Foreign Office. He was appointed as a Government Minister in a move to create a government "of all the talents". As he was not a parliamentarian at the time, Jones was made a life peer, and
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Cheikh Tidiane Gadio


Cheikh Tidiane Gadio (born 16 September 1956) is a Senegalese diplomat who served in the government of Senegal as Minister of Foreign Affairs from April 2000 to October 2009. Gadio was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs when Abdoulaye Wade took office as President in April 2000. He was promoted to the rank of Minister of State, while retaining the foreign affairs portfolio, in November 2002. At the African Union summit in Accra, Ghana in early July 2007, where leaders discussed whether a United States of Africa should be created immediately
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Laure Olga Gondjout


for years. On 21 January 2006, she was appointed as Minister-Delegate to the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Jean Ping, in the government of Prime Minister Jean Eyeghe Ndong. After nearly two years in that position, she was appointed as Minister of Communication, Posts, Telecommunications, and New Information Technologies on 28 December 2007. Soon afterwards, Jean Ping was elected Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union, and on 4 February 2008 Gondjout was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs to replace him. She
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Jari Vilén


Jari Pekka Olavi Vilén (born 17 April 1964 in Kemi) is a Finnish diplomat and a politician. Mr. Vilén served in the Finnish Parliament, representing the National Coalition Party and the district of Lapland from 1999–2007. Mr. Vilén served as the Minister of Foreign Trade and European Affairs in Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen's second cabinet in 2002–2003. As Minister for Foreign Trade he was responsible for OECD cooperation, competition and trade policy, consumer affairs and tourism. As Minister for European Affairs he was responsible of the enlargement negotiations of the
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Ajith Perera


he was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in Sri Lanka. Later in 2015, he was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Power and Renewable Energy in Sri Lanka. In 2015 he was appointed as the Deputy Whip of the Government in Parliament. In 2015 he was appointed as the organizer in Kalutara district as well as the chief organizer in Bandaragama electoral division for the United National Party. In 2016 he was appointed as the President of Jahtika Adyapana Sevaka Sangamaya (JASS) the trade union arm of the trade union
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Ozoda Rahmon


country. Between 2005 and 2007, she served as a culture and education attache at the Tajik embassy in Washington, DC, while her husband studied at the University of Maryland. In September 2007, she was appointed head of the consular department at Tajikistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Two years later, in September 2009, Ozoda Rahmon was appointed a deputy foreign minister. In May 2014, she was promoted to first deputy foreign minister. According to Ozoda Rahmon's official biography, the introduction of biometric passports and national ID
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Second Lee Hsien Loong Cabinet


his Second Minister for Trade and Industry portfolio. Senior Minister of State Balaji Sadasivan relinquished his position as Senior Minister of State for Ministry of Health for the Foreign Affairs Ministry. However, he continued as Senior Minister for State for the MICA. Heng Chee How took Balaji's place as Senior Minister of State for Health; he relinquished his appointments in the Ministry of National Development and Mayor for the Central Community Development Council. Zainul Abidin Rasheed was appointed Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Koo Tsai Kee Minister of State for
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Stephen Smith (Australian politician)


his fellow Western Australian, Kim Beazley. As early as 2002 his name had been mentioned as a possible future leader. He again supported Beazley in the leadership contest which followed the resignation of Mark Latham in January 2005, which saw Beazley return to the leadership. Smith was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs in Kevin Rudd's cabinet on 3 December following Labor's win in the 2007 election, and when Julia Gillard took over from Kevin Rudd as prime minister in June 2010, she added Minister for Trade to Smith's portfolio.
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Andy Slaughter


for the new Hammersmith seat which he won in the 2010 general election with an increased majority. He was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Stephen Ladyman MP, Minister of State for the Department for Transport and served from November 2005 to June 2007. In June 2007, he was appointed PPS to Lord Malloch-Brown, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and also served as PPS to Lord Digby Jones, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory
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Milner Tozaka


Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade and Shadow Minister for Justice and Legal Affairs in Opposition Leader Steve Abana's Shadow Cabinet. In November 2011, when Prime Minister Danny Philip lost his parliamentary majority and resigned, Tozaka was the Opposition's candidate to replace him, standing against Gordon Darcy Lilo, a recently sacked government minister. He lost to Lilo, and remained on the Opposition benches. On 15 December 2014, following a general election, Tozaka was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade by new Prime Minister Manasseh
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Mammad Yusif Jafarov


of the committee managed the industrial and economic operations. On November 15, 1917, he was appointed Commissar of Industry and Trade of Transcaucasian Commissariat. When Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was proclaimed on May 28, 1918, Jafarov was appointed the Minister of Industry and Trade within the new Cabinet of Azerbaijan established by Prime Minister Fatali Khan Khoyski. When the first cabinet was dissolved, he left his post and later served as a diplomatic representative of Azerbaijan in the Georgian government. On March 14, 1919, Jafarov was appointed Minister of Foreign
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Minister of Foreign Affairs (New Zealand)


The Minister of Foreign Affairs is a senior member of the Government of New Zealand heading the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and responsible for relations with foreign countries. The current Minister of Foreign Affairs is Winston Peters, who has held the position since 2017. The Minister of Foreign Affairs is responsible for overseeing New Zealand's relations with foreign countries and the promotion of New Zealand's interests abroad. The Minister is in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, including New Zealand's diplomatic staff. The office is often
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Gillian Bird


, in 2002 she was appointed as First Assistant Secretary in the International Division of Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. She held this position until 2004, when she was appointed Deputy Secretary in the Executive Branch of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Concurrent to this role, in 2008 Bird was appointed as Australia's first Ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations by Stephen Smith, then-Foreign Minister of Australia. Australia became the first ASEAN dialogue partner in 1974, and Bird's appointment enabled Australia to continue
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Minister of Foreign Affairs (Norway)


The Minister of Foreign Affairs (, ) is a councilor of state and chief of the Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since 20 October 2017, the position has been held by Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide of the Conservative Party. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, based at Victoria Terrasse, Oslo, is responsible for Norway's relation with foreign countries, including diplomacy and diplomatic missions, trade, foreign aid and cooperation with international organisations. Except during the four in which a Deputy of the Prime Minister of Norway was appointed,
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2006 Singaporean general election


for Trade and Industry portfolio. Senior Minister of State Balaji Sadasivan relinquished his position as Senior Minister of State for Ministry of Health for the Foreign Affairs Ministry. However, he continued as Senior Minister for State for the MICA. Heng Chee How took Balaji's place as Senior Minister of State for Health; he relinquished his appointments in the Ministry of National Development and Mayor for the Central Community Development Council. Zainul Abidin Rasheed was appointed Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Koo Tsai Kee Minister of State for Defence. Re
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Youssouf Ouédraogo


was followed by controversy. Ouédraogo signed an agreement with trade unions to raise salaries on 12 March 1994, but the agreement fell through and Ouédraogo resigned a few days later. He then served as Ambassador to Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg and the European Union before being appointed as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in January 1999. Ouédraogo was elected to the National Assembly again in the 2007 parliamentary election as a candidate of the CDP from Bam Province. In the government of Prime Minister Tertius Zongo, which
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Maxime Bernier


Canadian Business, called Bernier tenure " a golden age", by pointed out that his work on attracting investment was laudable while criticizing anyone who considered Bernier a lightweight. On August 14, 2007, Bernier was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs, replacing Peter MacKay, who became the Minister of National Defence. The rumour is that appointment had to do with preventing Bernier from pushing his personal views such as opposing corporate welfare farther as industry minister. During the beginning of his tenure, Bernier's personality and charm received praise among
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Seymour Mullings


He served in the cabinet under Michael Manley in the late 1980s, going on to hold the posts of Minister of Finance, Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Foreign Affairs & Foreign Trade, and was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister by P. J. Patterson, a post he held from 1993 to 2001. He retired from parliament in 2002, although he still attended parliamentary sittings for several years, and was appointed as ambassador to Washington, D.C., a post he held until 2004. In 2012, a road in St Ann was
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Ewa Ośniecka-Tamecka


graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Sociology at the University of Łódź, obtaining Master's degrees from the Department of Foreign Trade in 1987 and from the Department of Trade in Goods and Services in 1988. From 1988 to 1991 she worked as a teaching assistant at the University of Łódź. In 1991 she was appointed Advisor to the Minister in the Office of the Government Plenipotentiary for European Integration and Foreign Assistance in the then Office of the Council of Ministers, the present Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland. From 1992 to
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Michael Ahern (Irish politician)


was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment with responsibility for Trade and Commerce. After the 2007 general election he was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment with responsibility for Innovation Policy. On 13 May 2008, after Brian Cowen became Taoiseach, Ahern lost his position as Minister of State and was not appointed to any other junior ministry. He lost his seat at the 2011 general election. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Cork County Council at the 2014
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Ye Jizhuang


Republic of China. With the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in October 1949, Ye was appointed the country's first Minister of Trade. In August 1952, the ministry's foreign trade division was expanded into the Ministry of Foreign Trade, and Ye became its inaugural minister. It was a large ministry with many layers of organization, which served not only commercial, but also diplomatic functions. Ye served as head of the important ministry until his death in 1967. A major task of his was
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Antarctica New Zealand


entity, and has a CEO and a Board. Members of the Board are appointed for three years by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade in consultation with the Board Chair. This period may be extended by the Minister for up to a further three years. Members are collectively accountable to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade for the performance of Antarctica New Zealand. All delegated functions and powers within Antarctica New Zealand arise from the Board's delegations. The Board’s role is governance. Specific functions within this overall role include
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Estonia–India relations


To India": "To Estonia": In 2007, India was Estonia’s 34th largest import partner and 37th largest export partner. Imports into Estonia doubled in 2006. The total value of trade between the countries in 2007 was €30.8 million. While Indian investment in Estonia is small-scale and is in the commercial and food sector, Estonia has no direct investment in India. However, Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet has expressed desire to improve economic ties and appoint a non-resident ambassador and open its own embassy
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Lars Peder Brekk


56 days, due to the cabinet withdrawing. While in parliament, he was first chairman of the Standing Committee on Trade and Industry (2005–07) and them member of the Standing Committee on Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs and the Extended Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs (2007–08). From 2007 to 2008, he was parliamentary leader for the Centre Party. On 20 June 2008, Brekk was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Food in Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet. From 1993 to 1997, and since 2003, Brekk has been deputy leader of
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Prime Ministerial Trade Envoy


A Prime Ministerial Trade Envoy is a position in British foreign policy, within the Department for International Trade since 2016, and formerly with the UK Trade & Investment government department from 2003 to 2016. Trade Envoys are appointed by the Prime Minister in order to promote British business and trade interests abroad. The Special Representative for International Trade and Investment is a currently dormant position previously held by a member of the British Royal Family, who had the responsibility of representing the Sovereign for trade purposes. Following the 2012 Cabinet reshuffle, Ken Clarke
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Predrag Bubalo


Predrag Bubalo (; born 14 October 1954) is a Serbian politician who held various ministerial positions in the Government of Serbia. He served as the Minister of Foreign Economic Relations in 2004, as the Minister of Economy from 2004 to 2007 and as the Minister of Trade from 2007 to 2008. He was born on 14 October 1954 in Vladičin Han, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia. He graduated from the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Law and later earned a PhD at the same institution. From 2002 to 2004, Bubalo had
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Aïchatou Mindaoudou


the new civilian government named on January 5, 2000, she became Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and African Integration in the next government, which was named on September 17, 2001. She remained in the government of Prime Minister Seyni Oumarou, appointed in June 2007, despite President Tandja Mamadou's decision that ministers who had served in the government for over five years should be excluded from the government on this occasion. Mindaoudou was made an exception because it was considered important to maintain continuity in the conduct of foreign affairs.
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Ahti Vilppula


2001. Vilppula owned company Helsingin Mekaanikontalo paid in 2007 parliamentary elections EUR 10,000 donations to the National Coalition Party (Eheän Suomen Tuki ry), and to Kymenlaakson Talousseura - in other words to ministers Paula Lehtomäki, Jyrki Katainen, and Jyri Häkämies. All of those who in receipt of campaign finance funding from Vilppula's company Mekaanikontalo became ministers in Prime Minister Vanhanen's government. The politicians were embarrassingly unaware of their largest backers. Paula Lehtomäki, then the Minister of Foreign Trade and Development received EUR 10,000 for the March 2007 elections
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Greg Hunt


the Division of Flinders. He was first elevated to the ministry following the 2004 federal election, when he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage. In January 2007, Hunt was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Following the Coalition's defeat at the 2007 election, he was appointed Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Urban Water. His title was altered to Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Heritage after the 2010 election. After the 2013 federal election, Hunt was
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Alejandro Ferrer López


-1999 and 2008-2009, he was a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. Between 1994 and 1995 he served as Permanent Ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland and Alternate Ambassador to the United Nations and other international organizations. Between 1995 and 1996, he was Foreign Trade Advisor at the Embassy of Panama in Washington. Between 1996 and 1997 he was Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was Minister of Commerce and Industries from 2004 to 2008, appointed by the then president Martín Torrijos Espino. During
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Mangala Samaraweera


, he dropped the Media Ministry, but remained Cabinet Minister of Ports and Aviation. He became the campaign manager for Presidential candidate and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse. When Rajapakse won and took office in November 2005, he surprised many by appointing Samaraweera to the additional post of Foreign Minister instead of Prime Minister; Samaraweera maintained his other posts. In late January 2007, Samaraweera was replaced as Foreign Minister, but remained as Minister of Ports and Aviation. On 9 February 2007, he was sacked from the cabinet together with ministers Anura
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Jacques Poos


Esch-sur-Alzette. In July 1976, he was appointed as Minister of Finance. As the foreign minister of Luxembourg he held Presidency of the Council of the European Union for three half-year terms in 1985, 1991 and 1997. He was Deputy-Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development, first in Jacques Santer’s (from 1984 to 1995), then in Jean-Claude Junckers’s cabinets (from 1995 to 1999). In 1991, he was one of the negotiators
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Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani


was appointed as foreign minister of Qatar by the 8th Emir. He was retained in his post when the Emir's son, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani came to power in a coup in 1995. Hamad played an important role in the overthrow of the 8th Emir. On 16 September 2003, Hamad was appointed first deputy prime minister while retaining his position of minister of foreign affairs. On 2 April 2007, he was appointed as prime minister, following the resignation of Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani; Hamad also continued to serve
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Lin Yi-fu


director-general of the Board of Foreign Trade. Lin assumed the leadership of the Board of Foreign Trade in 1995, serving two years until his appointment as administrative deputy minister of economic affairs. In 2000, Lin was promoted to the position of political deputy minister within the same ministry. Lin took office as Minister of Economic Affairs on 21 March 2002, after the resignation of Christine Tsung. Lin was succeeded by Ho Mei-yueh in Chen Shui-bian's second term, but accepted an offer to stay on in
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Lalit Narayan Mishra


of India, Dr Manmohan Singh and appointed him as his adviser at the Ministry of Foreign Trade. Their first meeting happened coincidentally on an India-US-Chile flight. Mr. Mishra the minister for commerce (then called minister for foreign trade) was on his way to Santiago, Chile, to attend a meeting of UNCTAD. As Minister of Railways, he visited Samastipur on 2 January 1975 to declare the Samastipur-Muzaffarpur broad gauge railway line open. A bomb explosion on the dais seriously injured him. He was rushed
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Arab League and the Arab–Israeli conflict


this possible, the Palestinian Authority must put an end to terror, the horrifying expression of which we witnessed just last night in Netanya", referring to the Netanya suicide attack. The Arab League has since re-endorsed the Initiative on several occasions, including at the Riyadh Summit in March 2007. On 25 July 2007, the Jordanian foreign minister Abdul Ilah Khatib and Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit—appointed by the Arab League as its representatives—met with Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, foreign minister Tzipi Livni, and
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Chen Jian (politician)


and the Department of Personnel and Education of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade. From 1992, he served as Economic and Commercial Counselor of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Argentina. From 1994, he served successively as Assistant General Manager and Deputy General Manager of China National Overseas Engineering Corporation. In 1998, he was appointed Director General of the Department of Foreign Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC). In April 2008, Chen was appointed Vice Minister of Commerce
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Li Qiang (minister)


Mao Zedong appointed Li as Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Commercial Counselor at the Chinese embassy in Moscow. He was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1955. From April 1956 to October 1958, he served concurrently as a member of the Aviation Industry Committee of the Ministry of National Defense. In March 1961, he was appointed vice-chairman of the Commission of Foreign Economic Relations (later Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations). He also held positions in the China Electronics Society and the Electronics Research Institute
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John Bryan (diplomat)


John Bryan is a career diplomat who was appointed by the New Zealand foreign minister to the office of High Commissioner of the Cook Islands on 6 September 2005. Bryan had previously served as High Commissioner of Niue. Bryan had also served as a diplomat in Apia, Suva, Singapore, Bonn, New York City and Brisbane, and as Director of Property and Capital Management Division in New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. In September 2010, Bryan was succeeded as acting High Commissioner to Niue by the appointment of former
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Horst Bittner


1964 and 1965 he held the appointment of Deputy Minister for Foreign and Inter-German Trade. In 1964 he was appointed East German ambassador in Moscow. It was considered normal in East Germany for the country's most important ambassadorial posts to be held not by long standing career diplomats but by men who had built their careers and contacts inside the country's political establishment. Returning to Berlin, between 1974 and 1984 Bittner held a senior post in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. His last important posting, between 1984 and 1989,
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Prosper Vokouma


Prosper Vokouma (born 4 August 1955) is a Burkinabé diplomat and politician who served in the government of Burkina Faso as Minister of Foreign Relations from 1989 to 1991. He became Burkina Faso's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva and the World Trade Organization in 2008. Vokouma entered the civil service in April 1982, when he was appointed as a department head at the Directorate of Bilateral Cooperation, part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Subsequently he was appointed as Director of Political Affairs in 1984 and as High
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Bruce Billson


, a ministerial adviser to the Victorian Minister for Natural Resources, and policy adviser to the Shadow Minister for the Environment, Senator Rod Kemp, before entering politics. Billson was appointed the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs in 2004. In 2005, he was also appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, and, in 2006, he was promoted to Minister for Veterans' Affairs – a position he retained until the defeat of the Howard government in the 2007 federal election. In 2007
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Thomas Sanon


to the government as Minister of Transport and Communication. On 22 September 1989, he was moved to the post of Minister of Economic Promotion, and on 16 June 1991 he was appointed as Minister of Industry, Trade and Mines. Following the 1992 parliamentary election, in which he was elected to the National Assembly, Sanon was appointed as Minister of Foreign Relations on 20 June 1992; he held that post until 22 March 1994, when he was instead appointed as Minister for Relations with Parliament. In the 1997 parliamentary election,
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Kalonzo Musyoka


Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka (born 24 December 1953) is a Kenyan politician who was the tenth Vice-President of Kenya from 2008 to 2013. Musyoka served in the government under President Daniel arap Moi and was Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1993 until 1998; subsequently, under President Mwai Kibaki, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs again from 2003 to 2004, then Minister of the Environment from 2004 to 2005. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2007 presidential election, after which he was appointed as Vice-President by Kibaki in
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Raymond-Serge Balé


Raymond-Serge Balé is a Congolese diplomat who has been Congo-Brazzaville's Permanent Representative to the United Nations since 2008. Balé was a teacher before he began working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2005. Subsequently he was posted in Addis Ababa as Ambassador to Ethiopia and the African Union from 2005 to 2008. After Basile Ikouébé was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2007, Balé was appointed to replace him as Permanent Representative to the United
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Minister for Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia


, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Syria. It is also active in managing relations with other post-Soviet de facto states such as South Ossetia, Transnistria, or Lugansk People's Republic. On 30 April 1997, former Aidgylara Chairman Sergei Shamba was appointed Foreign Minister instead of Konstantin Ozgan, who had been appointed First Vice Premier, succeeding Sergei Bagapsh, who had been appointed Prime Minister on 29 April. Shamba remained Foreign Minister until he resigned on 15 June 2004 along with First Vice Premier Astamur Tarba (who eventually stayed on
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Mikhail Fradkov


, a presidential decree by Boris Yeltsin appointed Fradkov Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade, a post which he kept for nearly a year. In the middle of 1999, another presidential decree made him Minister of Trade. He was made director of the Federal Tax Police by Vladimir Putin in 2001, having previously been Deputy Secretary of the Security Council. In 2003 he was made Russia's representative to the European Union. On 1 March 2004, he was nominated by Putin as the next Prime Minister, and this appointment was
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Neven Mimica


held positions in various governmental bodies related to foreign relations and foreign trade policies, including several counselling positions at embassies in Cairo and Ankara. In 1997 he was appointed assistant to the Croatian Minister of Economy and served as Croatia's chief negotiator during the country's accession to the World Trade Organization and the European Union Association Agreement; his counterpart at the European Commission was Catherine Day. In September 2001, Mimica became Minister of European Integration under Prime Minister Ivica Račan, position he held until December 2003. Mimica was elected to the
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Mike Walsh (diplomat)


Deputy Head of Mission in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; and the Second Secretary at the Embassy of New Zealand in Apia, Samoa. Walsh held the position of Deputy Director of the Pacific Division of the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade at the time of his appointment as High Commissioner to Kiribati in 2011. Walsh's appointment as High Commissioner to Kiribati was announced by Minister of Foreign Affairs Murray McCully. He replaced former High Commissioner Robert KaiKai, who left the High Commission to become Consul General of New Zealand in Hong
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