About 200 states, territories and international organisations were invited to send an official representative.

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About 200 states, territories and international organisations have been invited to send an official representative.

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It is cooperating with the feds and says Giffen was an official representative of the Kazakh government at the time.

FORBES: Dealing With Dictators

ExxonMobil (nyse: XOM - news - people ) maintains Giffen was an official representative of the Kazakh government and therefore a legitimate conduit for concession payments.

FORBES: Magazine Article

He's an astronomer and serves as the official representative of the United Kingdom.

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He remarked that the Iranian government was reviewing an American request to have its own official representative at the Swiss embassy in Tehran, which has looked after American interests since diplomatic ties were broken in 1980.

ECONOMIST: Never the twain shall meet

Meanwhile, the state-run Cyprus News Agency quoted an anonymous top official as saying an agreement was not within sight because of the "rigid stance" by the representative of the International Monetary Fund.

NPR: Cyprus Locked In Tough Talks As Deadline Looms

An email was sent to Ms Malmstrom in November 2011, with the pair posing as Mr Rose's official representative, the court heard.

BBC: Hoax Tamara Ecclestone email 'for media experience'