A year after the Palestinian state delegation was given full membership in UNESCO, it was granted nonmember observer state status by the UN General Assembly.
| After a Congressional delegation was given a tour of the Guantánamo Bay prison recently, one member of the group recounted an anecdote he heard from officials there.
It is understood that she was first offered the chance to contact embassy officials on Tuesday, and a delegation was given access to her this afternoon.
The Guardian understands that the delegation were given approval to visit the immigration processing centre in official correspondence with Australia and Nauru.
Mr. Rumsfeld's delegation was given a copy of the Okinawa petition in advance, and a senior Pentagon official noted that Mr. Inamine's presentation to the defense secretary was less strident than language he used in recent news articles.
The delegation was given an exhaustive tour of the province, from the school that is training Serbs and Albanians to be police officers to a cemetery where the war crimes tribunal is exhuming bodies of people killed by Serbian forces last year.
Winston Churchill and his British delegation were given temporary residence within the Vorontsov Palace.
The Minister of Machine Industry met with the workers next morning and withdrew several promises that their delegation was given in Warsaw.
At the beginning of the week I was really heartened by the public praise the U.S. delegation was giving to the I.P.C.C. and now I can't help but think, was it all lip service?" Some environmental groups criticized Europe for not sticking to its guns.
On Wednesday, three members fired off a letter to Susan Rice, the new American ambassador to the United Nations, urging that the United States' delegation in Vienna be given new marching orders on the harm-reduction language.
After posing a series of questions about the killing of Baha Mousa and the mistreatment of individuals detained by the British army in Iraq, Xuexian Wang, a Chinese diplomat, complained loudly that while the UK delegation's responses were being "given in beautiful English", they seemed "almost to be non-answers".
