The tabloid Bild ran an article featuring pictures of Vladimir Putin and the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras asking: "The Russian or the Greek: who is more dangerous for us?" The Dutch have acted as envoys for Germany.
Since the revolution in 1959, Catholic popes John Paul II, Benedict and now Francis, have acted as envoys between the U.S. and Cuba.
Annan, who acts as envoy for the United Nations and Arab League, said he had invited foreign ministers from the five permanent U.N. Security Council members - Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States - as well as the European Union, Syria's neighbours Turkey and Iraq, and Kuwait and Qatar.
Saif often acted as an envoy for his father's regime, and in 2002 and 2003 helped to broker the agreement that saw Libya renounce its weapons of mass destruction programme and begin its journey back into the international fold.
Le Guin, in turn, acted as an envoy for a whole troupe of amazing science-fiction writers such as Gene Wolfe, Thomas M. Disch, and James Tiptree, Jr., who dominated my reading for the remainder of our stay in Northern Ireland and continue to open new worlds for me to this day.
He acted as an envoy for the king on a number of diplomatic missions related to this dispute and wrote a number of letters against Becket which were circulated widely in Europe.
Too old to enlist in the Confederate Army, he acted as an envoy for Kentucky governor Beriah Magoffin to obtain weapons from Louisiana for the defense of Kentucky, but he failed to secure the arms.
His predecessor Hamelberg had not only been consul general, but had on occasion also acted as special envoy to be able to negotiate treaties and accords with foreign powers.
Muller also acted as special envoy and in this capacity inter alia enrolled the Orange Free State in the Universal Postal Union, the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, and the Geneva Conventions, and negotiated treaties of friendship and trade with Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.
Records of his episcopate are thin, but there are enough to allow a modest reconstruction of his activities: he presided over legal disputes, issued a dispensation for an important irregular marriage, attended parliaments, and acted as an envoy of the Scottish crown in England.
