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Envoy’s Album – Winter | Spring 2022

| January 24, 2022 | 0 Comments
Envoy’s Album – Winter | Spring 2022

                                           

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New Arrivals – Winter | Spring 2022

| January 24, 2022 | 0 Comments
New Arrivals – Winter | Spring 2022

Scott Ryan High Commissioner for Australia Scott Ryan comes to diplomacy from politics. He was first elected to the Senate in the 2007 federal election and was re-elected in 2013 and 2016. He served as a parliamentary secretary to the minister for education, and then as parliamentary secretary to the minister for education and training. […]

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‘I believe Russia is a democracy’

| January 23, 2022 | 0 Comments
‘I believe Russia is a democracy’

Ambassador Oleg Stepanov agreed to an interview with Diplomat as 2021 was winding down. This is the first time a Russian ambassador has agreed to speak to the magazine since Georgiy Mamedov did so in 2008 in a wide-ranging interview. Ambassador Stepanov has a master’s in international journalism and public relations and has been with […]

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Envoy’s Album – Fall 2021

| October 16, 2021 | 0 Comments
Envoy’s Album – Fall 2021

                                                         

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New Arrivals – Fall 2021

| October 16, 2021 | 0 Comments
New Arrivals – Fall 2021

Gline Arley Clarke High Commissioner for Barbados High Commissioner Clarke began his career in politics as assistant to the leader of the opposition in Barbados between 1991 and 1994. In 1994, he was elected as a member of parliament for St. George North and became parliamentary secretary in the ministry of public works, transport and […]

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10 years on, the Pacific Alliance is still going strong

| October 16, 2021 | 0 Comments
10 years on, the Pacific Alliance is still going strong

Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru — sister nations united by history, a common language and the vast Pacific Ocean — signed the “Declaration of Lima” on April 28, 2011, establishing a new integration scheme to achieve the free transit of goods, services, capital and people; promote greater growth, development and competitiveness of their economies; and […]

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Filling an acute need for arriving Afghan refugees

| October 16, 2021 | 0 Comments
Filling an acute need for arriving Afghan refugees

When Sarah Harvey heard that Afghan refugees, fleeing the now Taliban-run state, were coming to Canada, her mind immediately turned to her friend Arian Ahmadi. Harvey is the head of the Heads of Mission Spouses Association (HOMSA) and Ahmadi is a member of its steering committee and wife of Afghan Ambassador Hassan Soroosh. “We’ve all […]

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‘These are always hard times. This is a Churchillian moment we’re looking for here’

| October 16, 2021 | 0 Comments
‘These are always hard times. This is a Churchillian moment we’re looking for here’

Epidemiologist Bruce Aylward is the senior adviser on organizational change to the WHO’s director general. He’s also a Canadian from Newfoundland, and has spent his career in public health, much of it at the WHO, where he’s held various positions, including special representative of the director general for the Ebola response. He also led the […]

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Envoy’s Album – Summer 2021

| July 9, 2021 | 0 Comments
Envoy’s Album – Summer 2021

                                           

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New Arrivals – Summer 2021

| July 9, 2021 | 0 Comments
New Arrivals – Summer 2021

New Arrivals Alfred Kenneth Russell High Commissioner for Bahamas After a long career at the Bahamas Oil Refinery, High Commissioner Russell became a justice of the peace and a member of the housing commission for the island of Grand Bahama. He was then responsible for public works as a council representative and then chairman of […]

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