He had found the Truman Administration reluctant to accept an unambiguous and binding alliance with Western Europe even after the irretrievable breakdown of the Council of Foreign Ministers conference in London in December 1947; Marshall was not prepared to accept the idea in discussions with Bevin that 17 December.
42.
The CPLP's guidelines and priorities are established by a biannual ( or whenever requested by 2 / 3 of the member states ) Conference of Heads of State and Government and the Organization s plan of action is approved by the Council of Foreign Ministers, which meets every year.
43.
In the same night of Kotzias's appointment, the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement, issuing Greece's unwillingness to agree to key passage of statement, delaying agreement for further EU Russia-backed separatists in Ukraine, before the extraordinary meeting of the EU Council of Foreign Ministers, which was scheduled on 29 January 2015 in Brussels.
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One month after Japan's surrender, at the first postwar meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, Byrnes stood-- in Stimson's words-- " very much against any attempt to cooperate with Russia . . . and he looks to having the presence of the bomb in his pocket, so to speak, as a great weapon ."
45.
In his conversation with Berlusconi, Putin reiterated his position : that Russia had every right to intervene in Georgia , and made a reference about an eventual deployment of Italian troops : " If, after his meetings in Tbilisi and Moscow, Kouchner submits a proposal to the European Council of Foreign Ministers on Wednesday, and it s approved, we ll take it into consideration.
