She said one official visited three times a day, urging her to write a letter blaming poor health as a reason for not attending the Washington ceremony.
Speaking in Ankara, where he was on a one-day official visit with his Turkish counterpart, Ali Babacan, and other senior government officials, Mr. Mottaki said there had been increased demand from Iranians and Americans for better bilateral social and business relations, which had been the basis for earlier proposals for direct flights between the countries.
Yesterday the London Times reported central questions about Senator Obama's shocking dearth of international experience: "Fresh doubts over Barack Obama's foreign policy credentials were expressed on both sides of the Atlantic last night, after it emerged that he had made only one brief official visit to London - and none elsewhere in Western Europe or Latin America".
I only ended up attending one school on an official visit, which was the single one that offered me a scholarship.
"It's not resettlement, it's returning," said Alaudi Khisimenkov, deputy head of the Migration Department in Chechnya, on an official visit to one camp.
And on an official visit to Burma, he thought it wise to recite a colonial-era Kipling poem while visiting one of the country's holiest sites.
Notably, he accompanied Nikita S. Khrushchev, the party chief and prime minister, on his official visits abroad, including one to the United States in 1959, by some accounts toning down Khrushchev's provocative remarks in translation.
"It is an official visit to one of our strategic partners and has been planned for six months," he said.
In 2010, they humiliated Vice-President Joseph Biden by unveiling a plan for new settlements during one of his official visits.
But the US department of defence would not allow him to make an "official" visit, only a "private" one.
