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envoy

An envoy is a representative of a country, next in status after an ambassador.

envoy

a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador (= emissary) someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else

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What does a special envoy want?
Listen, a special envoy is coming from Moscow today.
I am Nina Ivanovna Yakushova, Envoy Extraordinary. acting under direct orders of Comrade Commissar Razinin.
A special envoy arrived.
Everything was going perfectly until three days ago. when some horrid female envoy arrived from Moscow.
Won't it be rather embarrassing for a Soviet envoy. to disclose the circumstances under which she lost them?
When an envoy goes back to Russia and they don't like what he's done. they put him out of the way?
DUE TO THE PEACEFUL MISSION OF JAPAN'S SPECIAL ENVOY, MR. SABURRO KARUSU.
I am King Richard's envoy.
My envoy this day will come on this very important mission.
How could there be any other Teutonic Knight in the vicinity of Cracow, except for an envoy or one of his colour?
Envoy of Rome, proconsul of all the Roman Empire to the east of Italy.
The envoy of the imperial army.
Give the envoy something to eat and drink.
I must warn you about the impending visit of the Spanish envoy.
Knight of the Holy Roman Empire, Envoy Extraordinary. from His Majesty Philip, King of Spain, Aragon and Castile.
The Spanish envoy will be dazzled.
In the meantime, be assured of our warm consideration to your sovereign. and to you, his envoy.
In that case, the presence here of the Spanish envoy is superfluous.
Prepare the passport for the Spanish envoy.
His Highness Surat Khan, amir of Suristan offers a prayer of gratitude that you have been preserved in your journey. And places his household and all in it at the disposal of the illustrious envoy of her most gracious majesty, Queen Victoria.
One hour after the move against the American outposts, Ambassador Nomura and Special Envoy Kurusu were in Secretary of State Hull's offiice handing him the Japanese response to President Roosevelt's offer.
The Byzantine suitor's envoy and fan.
It's frightening to face this envoy from my childhood.
It's a peace envoy!
Send in the Polish envoy.
Send in the Turk envoy.
Your Highness, the Turk envoy wishes to speak to you.

News and current affairs

The Quartet's special envoy, James Wolfensohn, has proposed that donors assist the Palestinian people without violating anti-terrorism laws that prohibit funds from being sent directly to Hamas.
The UN Special Envoy for the Kosovo Future Status Process, former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, has now, after 14 months of intensive negotiations with Belgrade and Pristina, presented his settlement proposal to the Security Council.
A year ago, President Putin offered negotiations between his representative and an envoy of Aslan Maskhadov, the Chechen rebel warlord who won internationally supervised elections as Chechen president in 1997.
But, by adopting such a stance, they thwart their own envoy and may well stimulate the violence they profess to abhor.
Moreover, Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN and Arab League special envoy for Syria, reports that opposition forces include 38 nationalities.
The appointment of a new UN envoy should prove a more efficient way of coordinating Afghanistan's international helpmates.
Zapatero eventually felt it necessary to tell a Vatican envoy that Spanish bishops should stop meddling in the elections (which he won).
In early 1999, Paddy Ashdown, then the leader of Britain's Liberal Democratic Party (and since then, as Lord Ashdown, Europe's envoy in Bosnia), was found with a woman not his wife and forced to resign his post.
Likewise, the decision to recognize Kosovo's independence came only after Russia made clear that it would veto the deal proposed by the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy, former Finnish President Martii Ahtisaari.
It also appointed Kalmay Khalilzad, another former Unocal consultant --indeed, Karzai's boss--as special US envoy.
Even before the bombs stopped falling on Baghdad, Khalilzad's writ as Special Envoy was extended to Iraq.
At its recent summit in Libya, the Arab League rejected the proximity talks proposed by the United States' Middle East peace envoy, George Mitchell.
In fact, the only thing concerning Gitmo that the Obama administration has shut down is the office of the special envoy, Daniel Fried, who had been tasked with its closure.
But Obama's peace envoy, George Mitchell, resigned, and the quartet (the United Nations, the European Union, Russia, and the United States) was sidelined.
In the opening session, Obama's special envoy, Denis Ross, was greeted with resounding silence when he conveyed to the participants his boss's warm wishes.
The process could include appointing a US envoy to Iran. Ultimately, direct dialogue at the highest levels should be a key objective.
The US efforts, led by Special Envoy George Mitchell, have shown clearly that the current ruling coalition in Israel is incapable of doing the minimum required for peace.
Indeed, last March, US Climate Envoy Todd Stern began to speak positively about China's domestic efforts to address climate change.
The withdrawal of Britain's Paddy Ashdown as a candidate for the post of UN envoy in Afghanistan means that the international community still has some way to go before it speaks with one voice in that country.
The success that US President George W. Bush and his special envoy, former Secretary of State James Baker, had in getting Iraq's foreign debts canceled or rescheduled shows what can be done when a policy is backed by political will.
Although a real breakthrough in the Arab-Israeli peace process appears unlikely, United States envoy George Mitchell is still talking of Arab-Israeli peace as a distinct possibility in 2011.
The US envoy to the region, Marc Grossman, has already held a series of secret meetings with the Taliban.
The process could include appointing a US envoy to Iran.

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