Zimbabwe fights sanctions; Twitter dragged into intra-Saudi feud; More than 50 ex-lawmakers lobbying for foreign clients; Korea trade group gets new president; FARA discloses UAE contract with Glover Park Zimbabwe extends lobbying against US sanctions that still bite post-Mugabe Zimbabwe had hoped that the Donald Trump administration would ease off[Read More…]
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Daily Digest for Monday, June 29
UAE surveys US opinion; AIPAC steps into annexation minefield; Georgia trade promo contract ends; Cameroon loses Clout; Daschle renews Taiwan contract with eye to 2020 UAE hires lobby shop to survey US opinion ahead of 2020 election The United Arab Emirates is looking for a read on US public opinion[Read More…]
AIPAC confronts liberals over ‘apartheid’ warning against annexation
America’s main pro-Israel lobby today took the unusual step of proactively asking Democrats not to sign on to a letter from their liberal colleagues as the politics of annexation becomes impossible to sidestep. AIPAC — the American Israel Public Affairs Committee — had previously sought a middle road by telling[Read More…]
UAE hires lobby shop to survey US opinion
The United Arab Emirates has hired the Glover Park Group to survey US public opinion ahead of the 2020 election. The UAE Embassy in Washington hired Glover Park on June 22, according to a newly disclosed lobbying filing. The contract is for $35,000 and runs until July 31 unless both[Read More…]
Hill & Knowlton ends Georgia trade promotion after PM’s visit
New York public relations firm Hill & Knowlton Strategies has terminated a $750,000 contract to promote US trade ties with Georgia that coincided with a Washington visit and a “US road show” by the country’s prime minister. The contract with Georgia’s Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development began in April[Read More…]
Daily Digest for Friday, June 26
Qatar-focused think tank says it’s not lobbying after all; Hungary drops a connection with Trump’s base; UAE raises alarm bells over Turkey in Libya; Ex-aide to Paul Ryan lobbies on immigration for Japan Qatar-funded think tank moves to drop ‘lobbyist’ label It’s fair to assume the Qatar-America Institute hasn’t been[Read More…]
Qatar-funded think tank moves to drop ‘lobbyist’ label
A US think tank funded by Qatar insists that it has changed its structure and mission and should no longer be considered an agent of the Gulf emirate. The Qatar-America Institute (QAI) registered as a foreign agent of Qatar last month under pressure from the Department of Justice, Foreign Lobby[Read More…]
Hungary drops firm that connected right-wing government to Trump base
Hungary has ended ties with a Washington lobby firm that helped connect the country’s right-wing government with conservative US audiences. Policy Impact Communications‘ contract with the central European nation’s US embassy ended on Dec. 15, according to a newly disclosed lobbying filing. The firm was hired in October 2018 as[Read More…]
Ethiopian-Americans prod Congress to challenge Trump’s pro-Egypt diplomacy on Nile dam
Ethiopian-American activists are claiming a win this week after US lawmakers challenged the Donald Trump administration’s handling of the tense dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia over the latter’s new hydropower dam on the Nile river. The Congressional Black Caucus on Tuesday released a statement praising the Ethiopian dam as having[Read More…]
Libya’s rebel army ends its US lobbying amid battlefield defeats
Libya’s rebel army has ended its US lobbying following a string of battlefield defeats. Linden Government Solutions terminated its registration on behalf of Khalifa Haftar‘s self-declared Libyan National Army (LNA) effective June 19, according to a new Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) filing. Linden told Foreign Lobby Report on Thursday that[Read More…]