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That in itself is triggering tensions, with commission staff reportedly trying to hold on to key political jobs in individual delegations ahead of the anticipated arrival of national foreign ministry officials, who may have greater political experience than commission counterparts whose expertise is in disbursing billions of euros of E.U. development aid.

How California's delegation feels ahead of Syrian refugee vote.

So many delegations were already ahead of us.

Bishop's trip to Italy, Austria, Belgium and Switzerland was part of a two-week long parliamentary delegation to the IPU, ahead of the leadership ballot in Geneva in October last year.

"We definitely want to reduce our dependence on certain markets in western Europe," Mr Netanyahu told a weekly cabinet meeting ahead of the trade delegation visit.

But as a precaution, Prince Sultan, the defence minister, invited a delegation of Burayda scholars to visit him ahead of the American defence secretary's visit last week.

There was, apparently, some teasing by the younger, fitter members of the delegation, who arrived at their destination well ahead of the rest and stood by the roadside to cheer them in.

On February 14th, a Japanese delegation returned from bilateral meetings in Pyongyang, ahead of a six-nation Beijing summit on North Korea's nuclear-weapons programmes that will begin on February 25th.

Phelps's 0.01-second finish ahead of Čavić prompted the Serbian delegation to file a protest.

The EU's influential WP29 group that's comprised of the heads of member state's data protection authorities is working on its own analysis of the operation of Privacy Shield — having sent its own representatives to Washington as part of the EU review delegation (as well as firing off some warning shots ahead of time).

He had come to North Korea ahead of the Congress to accompany a delegation of Nobel prize laureates conducting a research trip, said the BBC.