In January 2003, the Armenian government and United Company RUSAL signed an investment cooperation agreement, under which United Company RUSAL ( which already owned a 76 % stake ) acquired the Armenian government's remaining 26 % share of RUSAL ARMENAL aluminum foil mill, giving RUSAL 100 % ownership of RUSAL ARMENAL.

* 2003 – The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo ( now called Behchoko ).

Proclamation No. 396 enjoined the " active participation of all government agencies, including government-owned and controlled corporations, private sector, schools, civil society groups and the citizenry in tree planting activity and declaring June 25, 2003 as Philippines Arbor Day.

On 4 November 2003, voters approved a greenbelt plan under which the city government bought development rights to pieces of land adjacent to Ann Arbor to preserve them from sprawling development .< ref name =" greenbelt ">

On 17 July 2003, Kelly, an employee of the Ministry of Defence, apparently committed suicide after being misquoted by BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan as saying that Tony Blair's Labour government had knowingly " sexed up " the " September Dossier ", a report into Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.

The government was deposed in 15 March 2003 by forces under the rebel leader François Bozizé, who promised elections in 18 to 30 months.

In 2003, the CSU was re-elected as the Bavarian government with a majority ( 60. 7 % and 124 of 180 seats in the state parliament ).

In June 2003, the government liquidated the state-owned and heavily indebted National Telecommunications Company ( Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones — Telecom ) and replaced it with Colombia Telecomunicaciones ( Colombia Telecom ).

President Mohamed Bacar of Anjouan formed his 13-member government at the end of April, 2003.

The Chinese government in 2003 acknowledged that it had lost track of 121 tons of ivory between 1991 and 2002.

The Afghan government has reported to the UPU several times about illegal stamps being issued and sold in 2003 and 2007.

A fast attack boat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam | rebel LTTE in Sri Lanka in 2003 passes the hulk of an LTTE supply ship that had been sunk by government aircraft, Sri Lankan Civil War ( 1983-2009 )

DR Congo had a transitional government in July 2003 until the election was over.

As a result, the government deficit increased to US $ 17 million in 2004 from US $ 7 million in 2003.

The Ninth Circuit, analyzing the Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas ( 2003 ), determined that DADT had to be subjected to heightened scrutiny, meaning that there must be an " important " governmental interest at issue, that DADT must " significantly " further the governmental interest, and that there can be no less intrusive way for the government to advance that interest.

The four known rejected requests were all from 2003, and all four were partially granted after being resubmitted for reconsideration by the government.

In 2003, the Israeli government issued a plan for total withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and part of the northern West Bank by late 2005.

New Prime Minister Tillman Thomas formed a government after narrowly losing by one seat to Mitchell's NNP in the November 2003 election.

As the economic began to recover in 2003, the government began to take steps for fiscal consolidation, and the fiscal deficit fell to 4. 8 percent of GDP.

Although FY 2003 began with the rapid decline of the gourde due to rumors that U. S. dollar deposit accounts would be nationalized and due to the withdrawal of fuel subsidies, the government successfully stabilized the gourde as it took the politically difficult decisions to float fuel prices freely according to world market prices and to raise interest rates.

From 1991 until 2003 the effects of government policy and sanctions regime led to hyperinflation, widespread poverty and malnutrition.

Ultimately the campaign to overthrow the government was unsuccessful, and the major jihadi group, Jamaa Islamiya ( or al-Gama ' a al-Islamiyya ), renounced violence in 2003.

Ashcroft was responsible for proposing a draft of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, legislation which proposed to greatly expand the powers of the U. S. government to fight crime and terrorism, while simultaneously eliminating or curtailing judicial review of these powers for incidents involving domestic terrorism.

The president of the last of these, Charles Taylor, was forced to step down in 2003, and the United Nations installed a transitional government.

Starting in 2003, the Libyan government restored normal diplomatic ties with the European Union and the United States and has even coined the catchphrase, " The Libya Model ", an example intended to show the world what can be achieved through negotiation rather than force when there is goodwill on both sides .< ref > Hirsh, Michael, ( 11 May 2006 ), < u >" The Real Libya Model "< u >, Newsweek.

In 2003 Guinea agreed plans with her neighbours to tackle the insurgents.

The first stage of the Galileo programme was agreed upon officially on 26 May 2003 by the European Union and the European Space Agency.

The European Union and the European Space Agency agreed in March 2002 to fund the project, pending a review in 2003 ( which was finalised on 26 May 2003 ).

The January 2003 CIA paper Iraqi Support for Terrorism states that al-Libi told a foreign intelligence service that " Iraq — acting on the request of al-Qa ' ida militant Abu Abdullah, who was Muhammad Atif's emissary — agreed to provide unspecified chemical or biological weapons training for two al-Qa ' ida associates beginning in December 2000.

After insisting on bilateral negotiations with the United States, it agreed to six-party talks between itself, the United States, South Korea, China, Russia, and Japan in August 2003.

The Government agreed to take over control of the national rail network back when Toll Holdings purchased Tranz Rail in 2003.

* Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty ( SORT or Moscow Treaty )— signed 2002, into force 2003: A very loose treaty that is often criticized by arms control advocates for its ambiguity and lack of depth, Russia and the United States agreed to reduce their " strategic nuclear warheads " ( a term that remain undefined in the treaty ) to between 1, 700 and 2, 200 by 2012.

In December 2003, Morocco and Spain agreed to explore the construction of an undersea rail tunnel across the Strait of Gibraltar, to connect their rail systems.

* 2003 – The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

In December 2003, Spain and Morocco agreed to explore the construction of an undersea rail tunnel to connect their rail systems across the Strait.

It did not take over responsibility for the London Underground until 2003, after the controversial Public-private partnership ( PPP ) contract for maintenance had been agreed.

The corporation agreed to resume talks with Pavel and a settlement was finally reached in 2003.

Most recently, at the fifteenth general assembly in 2003, the WTO general council and the UN agreed to establish the WTO as a specialized agency of the UN.

On 4 February 2003 parliament of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( FRY ) agreed to a weaker union between Serbia and Montenegro within a commonwealth called " Serbia and Montenegro ".

In January 2003, the Zambian Government informed the International Monetary Fund and World Bank that it wished to renegotiate some of the agreed performance criteria calling for privatization of the Zambia National Commercial Bank and the national telephone and electricity utilities.

On 22 December 2003, the appeals court agreed with the acquittal, and on 5 January 2004, Norway's Økokrim ( Economic Crime Unit ) decided not to pursue the case further.

In early May 2003, after receiving numerous complaints about newswire stories that referred to the Israel Defence Forces as " Zionazi forces " or to Israelis as " Zionazis ", Google temporarily stopped including some IMCs in Google News searches, justifying the removal by describing the term as a " degrading, hateful slur " and refused to index the Bay Area IMC because it had appeared there ; SF Bay Area Indymedia agreed that it " could be considered hate speech ".

In October 2003, after American newcomer Tim Howard won the starting goalkeeper's job from Barthez, United agreed to release Barthez from his contract at Old Trafford after the 2003 – 04 season, and also agreed to loan Barthez out to Marseille for the remainder of that season.

In 2003, the prime minister and the provincial premiers agreed upon priority areas for reinvestment.

In 1994, the Dutch government agreed with the operator of Borssele nuclear power plant, the countries ' only operational nuclear power plant, that it would be closed down by 2003.