Between January and May this year, Mr Singh had received 52 requests for foreign visits by ministers and he turned down 10 of those.
Shadow deputy prime minister Harriet Harman charged the government with failing to refer Mr Fox to the independent adviser on ministers' interests, as it was revealed he met his best man on 18 foreign visits and 22 times at the Ministry of Defence in the past 16 months.
As for the political non-story of the month, it surely came from the Daily Telegraph newspaper, which criticised Kevin Rudd, the foreign affairs minister, for racking up so many frequent flyer miles - a real foreign minister visits foreign countries shocker.
She said Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Minister Bill Rammell will raise the issue with the Laotian foreign minister when he visits the UK on 7 May.
Dusan Mikezic, the state secretary of Serbia's finance ministry, says the government has actively sought out foreign investors through roadshows and visits since opening the bond market to them in 2010.
I'm told that the Foreign Office regularly receives requests and visits from the Chinese, wanting to hear more about the "Westminster model".
Blair, Chirac and an EU team headed by Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel reported back on their visits to Washington.
The business side of the trip involved company visits in Beijing and Shanghai with Chinese and foreign businesses in various fields.
She will meet with Foreign MInister Walid al-Moallem and "will pay visits to some areas in Syria, " state-run news agency SANA reported.
Yet the assiduous visits to the Gulf region by America's foreign and defence secretaries are paying dividends.
Staff told inspectors they would "welcome training on the specific needs of foreign national prisoners", which includes issues such as immigration advice and visits from overseas families.
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