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Chargés d'affaires ad interim ("a.i.") are those who temporarily head a diplomatic mission in the absence of the accredited head of that mission. It is usual to appoint a minister-counsellor, counsellor, or embassy secretary as chargé d'affaires ad interim, and that person is presented to the foreign minister of the receiving state. [3]
George Rumbold's father was made a baronet in the 1770s. George was the second son, but his elder brother died before his father, so George inherited the baronetcy on his father's death in 1791.
The Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer (SNSM) is a French voluntary organisation founded in 1967 by merging the Société Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufragés (founded in 1865) and the Hospitaliers Sauveteurs Bretons (1873). Its task is saving lives at sea around the French coast, including the overseas départments and territories.
The percentage of modern English words derived from each language group: Anglo-Norman French, then French: ~29% Latin, including words used only in scientific, medical or legal contexts: ~29%
War started on 11 October 1899 and ended on 31 May 1902 as Great Britain faced the two small far-away Boer nations. The Prime Minister let his extremely energetic colonial minister Joseph Chamberlain take charge of the war. [39] British efforts were based from its Cape Colony and the Colony of Natal.
The Bangui agreement gave the following responsibilities to OAPI: To implement and apply common administrative procedure deriving from a uniform system for the protection of industrial property as well as the provision of international agreements in this field to which the Member States of the organisation have acceded and providing services related to industrial property.
The books are Lester's response to perceived Quebec bashing in the English Canadian press following the airing of Heritage Minutes, which Lester perceived to be a "watered-down version" of Canadian history, [1] the treatment of the 1995 Quebec referendum, and the federalist advertising campaign that would later develop into the sponsorship scandal.
The Directorate General for Civil Aviation (French: Direction générale de l'aviation civile, DGAC) [1] is the French civil aviation authority.Its headquarters are in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, 50 Henry-Farman.