The Language of Foreign Affairs

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DIANE Publishing, 1987 - 115 עמודים
 

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עמוד 73 - Its central thesis is that the United States will participate in the defense and development of allies and friends, but that America cannot — and will not — conceive all the plans, design all the programs, execute all the decisions, and undertake all the defense of the free nations of the world.
עמוד 5 - Future United States bilateral support for development should focus on critical problems in those functional sectors which affect the lives of the majority of the people in the developing countries : food production; rural development and nutrition; population planning and health ; and education, public administration, and human resource development.
עמוד 77 - Assistance is defined as those flows to developing countries and multilateral institutions provided by official agencies, including state and local governments, or by their executive agencies...
עמוד 13 - Let our position be absolutely clear: an attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.
עמוד 40 - Chairman of the Commission on the Year 2000 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
עמוד 62 - What I want to do is to see to it that we have strategic arms talks in a way and at a time that will promote, if possible, progress on outstanding political problems at the same time — for example, on the problem of the Mid-East and on other outstanding problems in which the United States and the Soviet Union, acting together, can serve the cause of peace.
עמוד 13 - January 23, the leaders of both major political parties, members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee— about two dozen lawmakers in all— filed into the Fish Room of the White House.
עמוד 44 - If present trends continue, the world in 2000 will be more crowded, more polluted, less stable ecologically, and more vulnerable to disruption than the world we live in now.
עמוד 12 - Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago.
עמוד 77 - those flows to developing countries and multilateral institutions provided by official agencies, including state and local governments, or by their executive agencies, each transaction of which meets the following tests: a) it is administered with the promotion of the economic development and welfare of developing countries as its main objective and, b) it is concessional in character and contains a grant element of at least 25 per cent.

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