Cecil Watson, president of the IRFU Ulster Branch, said the recruitment process had "attracted a high level of quality applicants".

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She adds that Ms Ashton's visit is the latest in a stream of high-level diplomatic meetings that reveal a rapidly escalating process of international engagement between Burma and the rest of the world.

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To demonstrate how this can be accomplished, we are working at a high level with about a dozen countries to help them in this process, we are making very significant contributions of various kinds to a dozen more, and we are providing some level of support to a total of more than 70 countries.

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Earlier, Sinn Fein vice-president Pat Doherty told the BBC that the high level meetings in Downing Street were an opportunity to rescue the peace process.

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Instead, a treaty that sets out high-level principles for traditional telecommunications such as competition and open and transparent regulatory process, would foster continued innovation in technologies and services that ride on that underlying telecommunications.

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So, for example, the Secretary General reported that he has sent high-level teams to both Egypt and Tunisia to engage those governments about the process of transition and the political support that the United Nations and the international community might be able to provide in support of those political transitions.

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It was true and will continue to be true that there are obviously -- in terms of getting into the nitty-gritty and moving this process forward, there are regular and constant discussions at a high-level staff level, as well as sidebar conversations between different members and between the administration and lawmakers.

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