The word 'envoy' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a noun, meaning an official messenger or representative, or as a verb, meaning to send as a messenger or representative. For example: The president sent an envoy to the United Nations to represent the country's interests.
International disarray over the crisis was starkly underlined by Kofi Annan's resignation as international envoy on Syria, or "mission impossible" as he called it.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 5.46pm BST17:46 UN envoy to call for ceasefire UN special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi will go to Syria this week to try to persuade Bashar al-Assad's government to call an immediate ceasefire, secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has told a news conference in Paris.
It works like this: if you worry that you might be accused of an -ism, get your defence in first by asserting that the accuser is an envoy of an ivory tower elite and you are merely a tribune of the people.
The document was a note taken by a Scotland Office civil servant recording a conversation with the French consul general in which the envoy recounted the contents of a private discussion between Sturgeon and the French ambassador.
The truce was proposed by UN and Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi in the face of scepticism from opposition activists and rebels.
The prime minister of Antigua & Barbuda has appointed the actor Robert De Niro as special economic envoy of the twin-island nation in the eastern Caribbean.
His appointment threatens to derail efforts by UN envoy Bernardino Leon to relaunch a political dialogue in Libya, which has rival governments and parliaments and is flush with armed militias.
"The government remains committed to supporting the Libyan government through the efforts of the prime minister's special envoy to Libya, Jonathan Powell.
He also attacked the vice-president, Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Laureate and former UN nuclear chief who was an opposition leader during Morsi's single year in office as the "envoy of American providence".
She quoted David Nabarro, the United Nations special envoy for Ebola, who said that going from 100 to 10 cases was easier than from 10 to zero.
Todd Stern, special envoy on climate change under secretary of state John Kerry, told a conference at Chatham House in London that he was speaking to the White House "almost daily" and that the current talks offered "a historic opportunity" to meet the threat of warming.
