Among Labour MPs to rebel over the issue were former Home Secretary John Reid and ex-Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett.
Initial results suggested Mr Karzai, the incumbent, had received 55% of the vote, and ex-Foreign Minister Mr Abdullah 28%.
As have foreign coaches such as ex-Bayern Munich boss Ottmar Hitzfeld, Australia and PSV coach Guus Hiddink and Portugal boss Luiz Felipe Scolari.
Congress also prohibits it from competing with commercial lenders, which is why the foreign buyers who utilize Ex-Im credit typically are unable to access private-sector financing.
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Ukrainian ex-foreign minister and Tymoshenko ally Borys Tarasyuk considers it unlikely that a boycott will go ahead, as the EU does not have an official, consolidated position on the issue.
Earlier this year Mr Belhadj alleged that British ex-foreign minister Jack Straw and the UK government's various spy agencies were complicit in his rendition to Libya, where he says he and his wife were tortured.
And with some senior liberals like Count Otto Lambsdorff, an ex-economics minister, and Hans-Dietrich Genscher, an ex-foreign minister, not standing for the next parliament, many pundits expect the party to sink first into irrelevance and then oblivion.
Yet barring a deus ex machina, such as a foreign-policy crisis, a Tory super-scandal or an improbably rapid economic recovery, a route to victory for the government at the next election is increasingly difficult to envisage.
In Moscow, Mr Chernomyrdin had been subjected to a chorus of denunciation from the foreign and defence ministries, both hinting that the ex-prime minister had imposed on Serbia an even greater humiliation than was necessary.
Some talk of Dora Bakoyannis, foreign minister of Greece, or Ursula Plassnik, an ex-minister from Austria.
It told a familiar story: an impoverished ex-Soviet institution offering its expertise to foreign partners in return for funds.
Inevitably the ex-diplomats have already been dismissed as "Foreign Office Arabists", in retirement, and well known for particular views of British Middle East policy.
In fact, interventions do not have to match the total, or even a significant part, of all transactions conducted on the foreign-exchange market to be effective, but only the ex ante imbalances in these transactions.
In this election, voters can choose the status quo -- with some lip service to post-revolutionary reality -- in the form of former foreign minister and later Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa or ex-civil aviation minister and briefly prime minister Ahmed Shafik.
The Bosnian foreign ministry thinks 300, 000 Bosnians are now citizens of countries outside ex-Yugoslavia.
The European Council on Foreign Relations, a newcomer on the scene, employs its fair share of ex or quasi-hacks.
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