The officer is part of the diplomatic protection group and was in Downing Street during the alleged incident.

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The officer - a member of Scotland Yard's Diplomatic Protection Group, SO6 - reported the incident to his superiors.

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That the new Conservative Chief Whip, Andrew Mitchell, lost his temper with a member of Scotland Yard's Diplomatic Protection Group, is not in dispute.

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He was alleged to have used the word during an altercation with police from the Diplomatic Protection Group (DPG) outside Downing Street in September, when they asked him to use the pedestrian gate rather than the main gate.

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The dispute between Britain and Ecuador exploded when the British Foreign Office, in a letter to Ecuadorian officials, cited a little known law that could temporarily suspend the embassy's diplomatic protection and allow authorities to enter and arrest Assange.

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For example, the Obama administration's much-ballyhooed "reset" in relations with Russia is becoming ever more one-sided as Vladimir Putin cracks down at home and sells dangerous arms to, and otherwise provides diplomatic protection for, the world's most dangerous regimes.

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The treaty was adopted at the World Intellectual Property Organisation's (WIPO) Diplomatic Conference on the Protection of Audiovisual Performances, which concluded in Beijing on Tuesday.

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While they have enjoyed Russian economic and diplomatic support, and military protection, no foreign state has yet recognised them as independent states.

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