These state visits and dinners are a really important part of our nation's diplomacy.
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If state visits have any purpose at all, it is presumably to improve relations between peoples.
There are usually one or two state visits per year, with the next one seeing the Amir of Kuwait arrive in the country on 27 November.
There have been two previous state visits by Mexican presidents during the Queen's reign - Luis Echeverria in 1973 and Miguel de la Madrid in 1985.
Russia has been getting ever closer with Tripoli, with Vladimir Putin trading state visits with Gadhafi and Russian warships parking in Libya en route to Venezuela.
And in just a few minutes, you're going to hear a little bit more about the whole process of state visits and dinners from White House Historian, Bill Allman.
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So one of the things we thought -- and I don't know about all of you -- is whether you wonder, what are these state dinners all about and these state visits?
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is used to being the center of attention during state visits, but it is his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy that is attracting the majority of attention in their latest trip to America.
In 2004, he was promoted to be assistant to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff in the Pentagon, as well as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's senior military advisor, accompanying her on state visits.
In addition to countless private visits, especially to American "horse country, " the Queen has made no fewer than six state visits to Washington, meeting all but one (Lyndon Johnson) of the 11 U.S. presidents in office during her reign.
That will be in part a matter of visits from heads of state, and the frequency of visits between heads of state has risen in the last decade.
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If Poland can strike a deal with Condoleezza Rice, America's secretary of state, when she visits Warsaw shortly, Mr Sikorski will be riding high.
Several Heads of State or Government pay official visits to UNESCO during each session of the General Conference.
No Republican has ever won the White House without winning Ohio, a state that has received more visits from the candidates and their running mates this year than any other.
Harris, whose arrival drew the attention of passers-by, said she has not made many visits out of the state since announcing her campaign.
Kerry has made several visits to the battleground state of Wisconsin, a state narrowly won by Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore in the 2000 election.
While senators are in Washington, their days are scheduled in fifteen-minute intervals: staff meetings, interviews, visits from lobbyists and home-state groups, caucus lunches, committee hearings, briefing books, floor votes, fund-raisers.
She will meet with Foreign MInister Walid al-Moallem and "will pay visits to some areas in Syria, " state-run news agency SANA reported.
It took a dozen visits for Warren Christopher, an American secretary of state, to persuade Mr Assad to sit face-to-face with him, instead of the normal neck-straining side-by-side.
Only about half of state Medicaid programs cover anything beyond treatment of dental pain and emergency room visits for their poor.
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The incident comes as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon visits Washington for talks with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and U.S. President George W. Bush.
When he visits Israel in the second week of May, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell is expected to press the Palestinians to disarm militant groups.
Washington state is trying to limit its Medicaid recipients to three non-urgent emergency room visits per year.
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The backslapping that took place last year, with visits by South Korea's president and America's then secretary of state, now seems rather distant.
Mitchell's stop in Israel is part of an eight-day tour, which includes visits to Egypt, the West Bank, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, the State Department said.
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.
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