The firm's attempt to renew visas for its foreign staff has shown how uncertain the answer is.
One foreign staff member of the IOM was seriously injured, sustaining third-degree burns, and was being airlifted out of the country, U.N. officials said.
The foreign staff's troubles began, BP says, when an employee who is also a shareholder of AAR deliberately applied for the wrong number of visas.
Also on Monday, the United Nations announced that it will move about 100 foreign staff out of Syria after mortar shells fell near their hotel in Damascus.
The Russian investors, unhappy at the way the company has been run by Bob Dudley, an American appointed by BP, blocked the renewal of work permits for many foreign staff.
Former Sonatrach boss Abdelmajid Attar has told Algeria's Le Soir's newspaper that BP and Statoil - which evacuated their foreign staff after the siege - risked huge financial losses if they disinvested from In Amenas.
Ten months on from the UK's decision to take IT specialists off its list of occupations suffering a staff shortage, UK IT contractors are accusing firms of taking advantage of a loophole to keep hiring foreign staff in place of British ones.
In January, three Foreign Office staff were sent an e-mail apparently from another colleague in the Foreign Office.
It was backed up by notes from Foreign Office staff who had visited the men and documented their injuries, she said.
Last week it warned it would not be able to guarantee the safety of foreign embassy staff after 10 April, and that countries should begin evacuating their diplomatic staff.
She added that Foreign Office staff in London and Bogota had not been informed of the plans and they hope to be able to study the information in due course.
And because of the importance of building stability and countering violent extremism in the Middle East and South Asia, we are increasing the number of Foreign Office staff in those regions by 30 per cent.
Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said staff at the hospital had been "working round the clock" to save Mr. Singh's life.
Non-essential staff at foreign companies have left for the more stable climes of Dubai or Qatar.
TelecomAsia, which is laying 2 million phone lines in Bangkok, has cut its staff of foreign technicians by 80% since 1991.
There were a lack of proper Criminal Records Bureau checks on some staff who work with children, especially agency staff and foreign workers.
As the staff of foreign embassies shrink, and the need to keep abreast of events abroad increases, governments inevitably turn to private sources of information.
But what was it about Dominique de Villepin that made Mr Chirac appoint him first as chief of staff, then foreign minister, interior minister and finally his prime minister?
Mr Yemane, who is chief of staff at the foreign ministry, also defended the police shootings of protestors saying they had the right to defend the security of people and their property.
To benefit, they need to show that they have a substantial business in the other country or region, which means showing that a company's foreign-based parent has staff and an active business there.
On Wednesday, the Foreign Office said some of its staff were being evacuated for their own safety.
And Mr Reichstul worries that public-sector pay restraint will mean that his best staff are poached by foreign firms in Brazil.
The report praised the prison for having a better range of translated information for the 82 foreign national prisoners, but said staff had raised concerns that some translations were not "entirely accurate".
And bosses can be sent to prison for up to 20 years if their companies fall foul of the FCPA. In theory, they could be jailed because a staff member at a foreign subsidiary bribed an official without their knowledge.
And that is just a reality that you have to accept if you're President, that there are going to be times when the campaign has to wait because he has to make important decisions, have important conversations with foreign leaders, or meetings with staff and others -- members of Congress -- to get the work done that needs to be done.
The former embassy official said most staff in the embassy don't believe the Foreign Office explanation because in recent weeks al-Ayoubi had actually been trying to dismiss staff members whom he suspected of supporting the opposition.
Ellen Bork, a former staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, writes about Asia.
On Monday, the Foreign Office confirmed that "some" staff had been released, but would not say how many.
At least five foreign investment banks are currently shopping for staff and offices.
Meanwhile, Britain's Foreign Office says it temporarily withdrew some staff from its embassy in Tripoli in light of the recent political unrest.
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