Sentence examples for as envoy for from inspiring English sources

During commercial voyages to Constantinople and Crete, he acted as envoy for his native city in negotiations with the Byzantine emperor John V Paleologus.

The Financial Times said the former prime minister is preparing to change his role as envoy for the Quartet of Middle East peace negotiators in a move that could be announced this week.

Blair meets Cameron in a formal capacity as envoy for the Middle Eastern "quartet" – the EU, US, UN and Russia – in which Britain plays a role as an EU member state.

This week it was reported that Blair might step down from his role as envoy for the Quartet of Middle East peace negotiators – not because it places such a strain on the concept of irony, but because of alleged conflicts of interest with his Tony Blair Foundation, thought to have made £80m over the same period.

Blair has been a student and participant in the Middle East process for a decade and has been working for nearly six years as envoy for the UN, EU, US and Russia to build the economy of the Palestinian territories, as well as help build institutions capable of nurturing growth.

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.

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.

The International Olympic Committee has promised to investigate allegations that 27 agents representing 54 countries were prepared to offer thousands of unauthorised tickets at prices of up to £6,000 to undercover Sunday Times reporters posing as envoys for a ticket broker from the Middle East.

Telling them to prepare their men for action as soon as possible, he ordered Ahmad Gulkhan to act as an envoy for the Northern Alliance, making contact with the Taliban in Ghorband and encouraging them to defect.

Paul Lewis, whose high-profile appointment as Pentagon envoy for Guantánamo was touted as evidence of Obama's commitment to shuttering the facility, is seen as marginalized and ineffective.

With his plan to end the blood-letting in shreds, Kofi Annan yesterday quit as peace envoy for Syria, describing his task as impossible and leaving further diplomatic efforts rudderless.