(n.) One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador.
(n.) An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi.
Example Sentences:
(1) Obama will meet with Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas tomorrow as well, but US envoy George Mitchell has had no luck in recent weeks trying to persuade Netanyahu to compromise on the settlements.
(2) The US secretary of state, John Kerry , said if Yemen’s opposing sides accepted and moved forward on a ceasefire then the UN special envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, would work through the details and announce when and how it would take effect.
(3) The spokeperson said of Blair's role as the Middle East envoy: "The truth, and anybody who knows anything about the situation in respect of Palestine knows this, is that transformational change is impossible unless it goes hand in hand with a political process.
(4) It was a diplomatic gift from Rubens to Charles I, when the painter was acting as an envoy for Philip IV, but nevertheless seems to me a painting for everyone.
(5) UN envoy Staffan De Mistura halted the latest Syria talks on 3 February, because of major differences between the two sides, exacerbated by increased aerial bombings and a wide military offensive by Syrian troops and their allies under the cover of Russian airstrikes.
(6) "This is a process which we respect as an Afghan-led process, Afghan-managed process and we would not want to take steps which would be seen as interfering or substituting the UN for Afghan leadership," deputy UN envoy Nicholas Haysom told journalists on Saturday.
(7) The announcement coincides with a visit to Asia by the chief US envoy for the North, Stephen Bosworth, to discuss ways to bring Pyongyang back to denuclearisation talks.
(8) "There's funding that was agreed to as part of the Copenhagen accord, and as a general matter, the US is going to use its funds to go to countries that have indicated an interest to be part of the accord," the state department envoy, Todd Stern, told the Washington Post.
(9) • While in Geneva Kerry is due to meet the international envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, according to the US state department.
(10) Famine is stalking Somalia after a year of poor rains and heavy fighting, with more than a million lives at risk and little sense of urgency from the international community, the top UN envoy to the country warned.
(11) Rachel Kyte, the World Bank’s special envoy for climate change, said the bank’s pledge coupled with commitments from Germany, France and the UK to double their climate finance and similar pledges from multilateral development banks in Asia, Europe and Africa meant the total pledges were “well on the way to $100bn”.
(12) Since the summer, scarcely a week has gone by without an envoy from one party or other, or from Ukraine itself, visiting London and other capitals to argue their case.
(13) It reminds me of the events in 2003 when US envoys to the security council were demonstrating what they said were chemical weapons found in Iraq ,” he told reporters.
(14) Nickolay Mladenov, the UN envoy for the Middle East peace process, said a very dangerous precedent had been set and “a very thick line” crossed.
(15) UN Libya envoy Martin Kobler was quick to congratulate the Presidential Council on nominating a new cabinet.
(16) Charles Pritchard, a special envoy for negotiations with North Korea in the Bush administration and a special assistant to Bill Clinton on national security, said Obama's policy of engagement has now failed.
(17) Some European officials, including senior British figures, argue that the gains in efficiency achieved by appointing an international envoy with vice regal authority would be outweighed by the Kabul government's further loss of legitimacy.
(18) Although he was once a UK trade envoy, jetting off around the globe to promote British business, he hasn’t held that position since 2011.
(19) Unlike more discreet foreign envoys in London, the ambassador is not afraid to state his views publicly and forcefully.
(20) The envoys were expected to discuss Turkey's concerns but would not decide on anything specific, said the official who could not be named.