Of course, any Green foreign minister could end up suffering the same fate as his or her predecessor, Joschka Fischer.
"Maduro knew how to interpret Chávez's wishes better than any other foreign minister," an observer of Chavismo, who asked to be unnamed, told me.
He has spent more time with Secretary of State John Kerry than any other foreign minister in the world c.
"No one, from now on, will dare to violate Turkish borders in any way," the Turkish foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, told reporters in Paris on Monday evening, according to the semiofficial Anatolian News Agency.
"They were legally assigned to the Russian Embassy in Qatar, conducting analytical work in connection with countering international terrorism, without violating local legislation in any way," the acting foreign minister, Igor S. Ivanov, said in the statement.
Russia strongly denied any such moves, though foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that Moscow plans to send another humanitarian convoy into Ukraine, with or without Kiev's agreement.
"We certainly do not agree with the suspension of any OIC member," Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said after a preliminary meeting in the city of Jeddah on Monday.
Few — if any — European foreign ministers could discuss in this detail the fate of Russia's Black Sea fleet, stationed in Sevastopol by agreement with Ukraine until 2014.
In 1977, Mr. Sadat appointed him foreign minister without any prior consultation after Ismail Fahmy resigned in protest against Mr. Sadat's decision to visit Jerusalem and address the Israeli Parliament.
