If approved, it would make reducing levels of gender-based violence a U.S. foreign policy priority.
The foreign secretary added that Afghanistan was the government's "top foreign policy priority".
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In creating this new State Department position, Secretary Clinton underscored that empowering women is a moral, economic, and ultimately a critical foreign policy priority for the United States.
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An indefinite postponement is less worrying to Ehud Barak than it would have been in his first months as Israel's prime minister, when peace with Syria was his foreign-policy priority.
Ask any Mexican politician what his country's foreign-policy priority must be, and the response is the same: maintain good relations with the United States and improve the lot of migrants headed north.
In instances where foreign investment is justified, priority could be given to arrangements that do not imply transfer of arable land to foreign investors.
It is also unlikely that there will be much of a rebalancing of Germany's foreign relations to give more priority to transatlantic relations.
One is that, with the cold war over, shoring up the multilateral trading system is no longer seen as a top priority for American foreign policy.
With America's economy doing well, greater access to foreign markets seems a less pressing priority.
"The issue of the Palestinian people is the first issue and top priority issue, " Tunisian Foreign Minister Habib Ben Yahia said at a news conference after the close of the summit.
Past experience suggests the job may have fallen to lower-level career bureaucrats who give priority to maintaining good relations with their foreign "clients, " like the UAE.
Turkish foreign policy may be becoming more assertive, yet EU membership remains the priority.
Although foreign banks must also hold big slugs of bonds, they had more lenient priority-lending rules until now.
Both men "expressed conviction that providing humanitarian aid to Syrians in need is an absolute priority at the current stage, " a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry recounted.
Of course, foreign aid saves lives, and maximizing the effectiveness of our assistance should remain a priority of future Republican and Democratic administrations.
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The UK should give more priority to helping the poorest countries collect their taxes as part of its foreign aid strategy, MPs have suggested.
Will foreign plants, such as those located in the Southern U.S, be a priority when the Japanese domestic economy needs a sharp boost?
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Arabs and Muslims have become a foreign-policy issue, an argument on the domestic agenda, a law-enforcement priority, and a point of well-meaning concern.
It said the government's first priority was "protecting the public" and the record number of deportations of foreign criminals last year showed its "continued commitment to removing the most harmful people first".
In the U.K., the Cobra committee, which manages responses to high-priority security issues, convened to discuss potential repercussions and the country told its foreign embassies and military bases to review their security.
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"The priority now is to get her to a place of safety, " said a spokesman from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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