Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs

(iii) 1991 1994 Deputy Minister of Justice.

Dr. S. Kharaghani Deputy to Minister of Energy in employment and human resources.

New portfolios of Deputy Prime Minister and 15 deputy ministers have been agreed on.

Also participating were Mr. Nikolay Milkov, Deputy Foreign Minister, Mrs. Marija Pejcinovic Buric, State Secretary, Ambassador Volkan Bozkir, Deputy Under Secretary and Ambassador Mr. Tihomir Ilievski.

Dr. Mohammad Ahmadian Deputy to Minister of Energy in power systems affair.

There are currently four women serving as deputy Ministers.

One non Serb, non Albanian deputy minister has been appointed.

I now give the floor to Mr. Aziz Pahad, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of South Africa.

I should like to warmly welcome Mr. Aziz Pahad, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of South Africa.

He was deputy chief cabinet secretary in the first government of Shinzo Abe in 2006.

The high level delegation of Sri Lanka was led by H.E. Mr. Arjuna Ranatunga, Deputy Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment Promotion.

He has been the Commerce Minister of China since March 2013, and formerly served as Vice Minister of Commerce and Vice Chairman of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Regrettably, the post of Deputy Minister for Local Government Administration, reserved for a Kosovo Serb, still remains vacant.

We thank Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad for sharing with us the AU's mediation road map and the recommendations contained therein.

Then Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick made clear that the US would accept the rise of China as a responsible stakeholder.

The Acting President (spoke in Spanish) I now call on His Excellency The Honourable Lorin Robert, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Federated States of Micronesia.

The Acting President (spoke in French) I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Lyubomir Datzov, Vice Minister of Finance of Bulgaria.

Saudi Defence Minister Prince Salman bin Sultan toured the JF 17 project during a visit to Pakistan.

Meetings were conducted with the Deputy Minister for Europe, the Americas and International Organizations, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Interior.

The Acting President (spoke in French) I now call on His Excellency Mr. Pedrag Boskovic, Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro.

The envoy met with the Egyptian Deputy Minister of Justice and the Minister in charge of the General Intelligence Service (GIS), voicing the State party's concerns over the alleged ill treatment in the first weeks following the complainant's return to Egypt.

We welcome the comprehensive briefing made by Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad, and we thank Mr. Alan Doss, Principal Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General for Côte d'Ivoire, for introducing the report of the Secretary General (S 2005 186).

During the Asian financial crisis in November 1997 he returned to be Deputy Prime Minister and also became Minister of Commerce.

I would also like to thank Mr. Aziz Pahad, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of South Africa, and Ms. Mojanku Gumbi for being with us today.

The Council heard statements by His Excellency Mr. Alfredo Mantica, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Italy, and the representatives of Peru and Canada.

Finally, a Department of State for Women's Affairs had been established, and reported to the Office of the Vice President.

Pravin Kumar Jugnauth, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Economic Development of Mauritius, was elected Vice President ex officio of the International Meeting by acclamation.

H.E. Mr. Hernán Solano, Deputy Minister for Pre School Education, Youth Affairs and Adult Learning of Costa Rica, made a statement.

We welcome the participation in this meeting of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of New Zealand and the Secretary of State of Switzerland.

In response to such concerns, MOWE was restructured by adding one deputy minister specifically responsible for the welfare and protection of children.

He met the Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, representatives of various ministries, representatives of the judiciary, and local government representatives from Osaka, Kyoto, Tokyo and Sapporo.

The event was co chaired by H.E. Mr. Luc Marie Gnacadja, Minister of Environment, Housing and Urban Development of Benin, and Mr. Olav Kjorven, State Secretary of International Development of Norway.

However, one distinct difference is the fact that a minister without portfolio is a member of the council of ministers and can vote in it, whereas a state secretary is not.

Yet, as Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Zhou Wenzhong put it, Business is business, and China separates business from politics.

The credentials shall be issued by the Head of State or Government or by the Minister for Foreign Affairs or by the Permanent Mission to the United Nations of the State at Geneva upon the explicit authorization of the Head of State or Government or the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

When it wished to raise an issue, it communicated with the Secretary of State for Women's Affairs, who was the Vice President.

In this context, and after consultations with the Office of the Secretary General, Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate for 2004 and Deputy Minister of Environment of Kenya, and Cherif Rahmani, Minister of Environment of Algeria, have been named honorary spokespersons for the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.

He became Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1921 and was a signatory of the Anglo Irish Treaty of 1921, which established the Irish Free State.

But because Rumsfeld wanted to prove a point about transforming American military strategy, and his neo conservative advisors had ideological blinders that distorted their appraisal of Iraqi reality, Shinseki s advice was rejected.

And America s decision to send Undersecretary of State William Burns to a meeting with Iran s top nuclear negotiator suggests that those signals are being taken seriously.

Mr. Holliday (United States of America) We would like to thank Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad for his work and for his briefing to us today.

The Government also reported on the mission, objectives and recent activities of the Vice Ministry for External Affairs for Salvadorians Living Abroad (Viceministerio de Relaciones Exteriores para los Salvadoreños en el Exterior).

Opening statements were made by Mr. David Harcharik, Deputy Director General of FAO, Mr. Shafqat Kakakhel, Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), on behalf of Mr. Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director of UNEP, and Mr. Domenico Zinzi, Vice Minister of Health of Italy.