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mfa.gov.lv uncaptioned image from article From 6 to 8 February, the Latvian men’s national hockey team took part in a special tournament in South Korea’s Olympic city Gangneung held to celebrate the first anniversary of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and played against South Korea, Japan and Kazakhstan. The Latvian team, consisting mainly of players from Latvian hockey clubs, with two wins and a loss to Kazakhstan in overtime, placed second, representing our country excellently. From 9 to 12 February, the women’s national team, taking part in a tournament of a similar format and competing with South Korean and Hungarian teams, won one point and placed third. Our girls fought hard but fortune was on their adversaries’ side this time. The Latvian-South Korean match, broadcast live on television, was watched by several hundreds of thousands of viewers. In the context of bilateral relations between Latvia and South Korea, the tournaments were a unique opportunity to raise Latvia’s pr..

Alan Heil, publicdiplomacycouncil.org, February 13, 2019 “One Individual, One Community at a Time” Roger-Mark De Souza narrates the success stories of citizen diplomacy at the First Monday Forum on Feb. 11.Imagine an American non-profit, non-partisan organization that reaches out to improve lives in cities, towns and villages around the globe. President Dwight Eisenhower first had that dream in 1956. It has now enhanced mutual respect and understanding through worldwide exchanges for more than seven decades.Roger-Mark De Souza, the new president of Sister Cities International, electrified an audience of public diplomacy [JB emphasis] professionals and scholars at George Washington University on a rainy Monday in one of the most heartfelt, moving and enthusiastic presentations of the season.“It’s amazing,” a Sister Cities volunteer in Montgomery County in Maryland told Mr. De Souza after returning a few months ago from a trip to a sub-Sahara African village. “They have so little and do..

Sune Engel Rasmussen and Jessica Donati, Wall Street Journal, Updated Feb. 13, 2019; see also Iran Rift Hurts U.S. Effort to Build Consensus on Mideast Policy Image from article, with caption: Vice President Mike Pence and Polish President Andrzej Duda, center right, in Warsaw on Wednesday.Excerpt: WARSAW—Divisions over Iran are hindering the Trump administration’s efforts to build consensus with NATO allies on Middle East policy, with European powers balking at joining top U.S. officials in Poland’s capital for an event on regional security.Washington has made isolating Tehran a focus of its foreign policy. Its major North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies, including Britain, Germany and France, seek to preserve ties with Tehran and salvage the 2015 multilateral nuclear accord from which the U.S. withdrew last year, before reimposing sanctions.Now, this divide over Iran is on public display as officials from some 60 countries gather in for Warsaw for the two-day Middle East conferen..

state.gov ***THE DAILY PUBLIC SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLIC SCHEDULE FEBRUARY 13, 2019 Royce image fromExcerpt:ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS MARIE ROYCE9:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Royce delivers remarks at the Education USA Public Affairs Staff Conference at the Institute of International Education in Washington, DC. (MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)

Ashlea Halpern, afar.com, 2.11.2019 Photo by Yongkiet Jitwattanatam/ShutterstockLanding a job abroad is a great way to combine work and adventure. Beyond backpacking, bartending, and busking, these are some of the most popular professions for the exploration-obsessed. Some people love travel so much, they make it their job. Pilots and hotel general managers are among the highest-profile occupations within the tourism sector, but there are countless other travel-intensive gigs that don’t fall squarely within the industry (polar scientists, wildlife photographers, touring magicians, and Doctors Without Borders among them). Other ways to merge work with travel include becoming a traveling nurse, volunteering with the Peace Corps, or finding a job as a tour guide, yoga teacher, or scuba instructor. Here, we look at seven of the most common travel jobs—plus the ups, the downs, and resources for pursuing them.Flight attendantIf this is the first job that springs to mind when you picture a c..

omny.fm/shows/jim-bohannon/jim-bohannon-02-11-19#description Jim BohannonDescription Guests: William Ogborn [JB see], Strategic Communications and Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis] Expert, On to discuss Venezuela and Iran. Steve Dale, Certified Animal Behavior Consultant, On to discuss pet spay and neuter month. And ... Your thoughts on a potential deal to avoid another government shutdown.

1tv.ge, 12.02.2019 uncaptioned image from article The Embassy of Poland will become a contact point embassy between NATO and Georgia. The network of contact point embassies was established in the 1990s as a form of support between NATO and Partner states. Mariusz Maszkiewicz, Ambassador of Poland to Georgia said that the project would contribute to the high social support to Georgia’s integration into NATO. “I am glad that the Polish Embassy has been assigned such a prestigious and responsible function. Poland has always been a faithful friend of Georgia and has served as its constant advocate on international forums for many years,” Maszkiewicz stated. Since the early 1990s, NATO has developed a network of Contact Point Embassies (CPE) to support the Alliance’s partnership and public diplomacy [JB emphasis] activities in countries participating in the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC), Partnership for Peace (PfP), Mediterranean Dialogue (MD) and Istanbul Cooperation Initiative..

Denise Allabaugh, The Times-Tribune, Scranton Image from, under the headline:Meet Native America: Kevin P. Brown, Chairman of the Mohegan Tribe Kevin “Red Eagle” Brown has informed the Mohegan Tribal Council that he would step down as chairman of the Mohegan Tribe for personal reasons effective immediately, according to a statement from Charles F. Bunnell, chief of staff for the Mohegan Tribe. Brown will remain as a member of the Tribal Council and Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment Management board which oversees gaming entities across the country as well as two professional sports teams, Bunnell said. Mohegan Sun and the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority own the New England Black Wolves professional lacrosse team and the Connecticut Sun women’s basketball team of the WNBA. The Tribal Council has asked vice chairman James Gessner to assume the role of interim chairman for the foreseeable future, Bunnell said. The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut owns Mohegan Sun Pocono in Plains Twp. Brown was ..

news.psu.edu SENIOR LECTURER, Sociology smr8@psu.edu(814) 863-7456Personal Website@iunlearnSam Richards is a senior lecturer in sociology, and is one of the founders and Director of Development for the World in Conversation Center for Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis]. He researches race and ethnic relations.Education: B.A., University of Toledo, SociologyM.A., University of Toledo, SociologyPh.D., Rutgers University, Sociology Research Interests: Race relations

irna.ir Tehran, Feb 12, IRNA - A senior lawmaker pointed to the holding of the so-called Middle East Peace and Security Conference in Poland and the invitation of the United States on February 13 and 14, stressed that the meeting is doomed to failure. Heshmatullah Falahatpisheh, in an interview with Al- Arabiya network, said, 'Americans in the Security Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency also tried to raise the issue of Iran, but they did not come up with a result and it was a sort of frustration for them”. He described Instrument for Supporting Trade Exchanges (INSTEX) between Europe and Iran as a good start, but said that this mechanism did not meet Iranian expectations, and pointed to the necessity of its development to return Iran's money and guarantee its sale. The MP said that in the 1990s, a conspiracy was raised under the name of a critical dialogue between Iran and Europe, and they were constantly criticizing and Iran should respond; now we do not al..