Other meetings, such as those of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group, Commonwealth Business Council, and respective foreign ministers, have also dealt with business away from the heads of government themselves.

He or she will host members of Australia's royal family, as well as foreign royalty and heads of state.

Thus in diplomatic affairs, heads of state are often the first person to greet an important foreign visitor.

The head of state accredits ( i. e. formally validates ) his or her country's ambassadors, High Commissioners or rarer equivalent diplomatic mission chiefs ( such as papal nuncio ), through sending formal Letter of Credence to other heads of state and, conversely, receives the letters of their foreign counterparts.

The head of state ( now the President as the acting Grand Master ) confers knighthoods of the Order to distinguished citizens, foreign monarchs and other heads of state.

This plan, defined as the mandate system, was adopted by the " Council of Ten " ( the heads of government and foreign ministers of the main Allied powers: Britain, France, the United States, Italy, and Japan ) on 30 January 1919 and transmitted to the League of Nations.

As such, the prime minister, supported by the Office of the Prime Minister ( PMO ), controls the appointments of many key figures in Canada's system of governance, including the governor general, the Cabinet, justices of the Supreme Court, senators, heads of crown corporations, ambassadors to foreign countries, the provincial lieutenant governors, and approximately 3, 100 other positions.

Megacorporations control the lives of their employees and command their own armies ; the ten largest have extraterritoriality, such as now enjoyed by foreign heads of state.

Therefore, the Ryan Doctrine supersedes the executive order put in place by President Ford, which forbids the assassination of foreign heads of state.

Membership comprises the heads of the three collection agencies — the Secret Intelligence Service, Security Service and GCHQ — the Chief of Defence Intelligence, Deputy Chief of Defence Intelligence Staff, the Chief of the Assessment Staff, representatives of the Ministry of Defence, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and other departments, and the Prime Minister's adviser on foreign affairs.

Yale has produced many notable alumni, including five U. S. Presidents, 19 U. S. Supreme Court Justices, and several foreign heads of state.

The next day, Arafat's body was flown from Paris aboard a French Air Force transport plane to Cairo, Egypt for a brief military funeral there, attended by several heads of states, prime ministers and foreign ministers.

He or she will host members of Canada's royal family, as well as foreign royalty and heads of state, and will represent the Queen and country abroad on state visits to other nations, though the monarch's permission is necessary, via the prime minister, for the viceroy to leave Canada.

The genesis of the NCS began in 1962 after the Cuban missile crisis when communications problems among the United States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and foreign heads of state threatened to complicate the crisis further.

Louis had appointed the baron de Breteuil to act as plenipotentiary, dealing with other foreign heads of state in an attempt to bring about a counter-revolution.

* Protection, which entails ensuring the safety of current and former national leaders and their families, such as the President, past Presidents, Vice Presidents, presidential candidates, visiting heads of state, and foreign embassies ( per an agreement with the U. S. State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security ( DS ) Office of Foreign Missions ( OFM ), etc.

Bewildered and not really understanding what the bishop is talking about, Jean Valjean heads instead back out into the nearby mountains and meets a young foreign traveling worker named Petit Gervais.

Documents which require the seal include treaty ratifications, international agreements, appointments of ambassadors and civil officers, and communications from the President to heads of foreign governments.

The law states that the armed forces will only be used against foreign aggression, and reduces the powers of the heads of the armed services, centralizing whole operational and acquisitions decisions under the authority of the Armed Forces Joint General Staff ( EMC ) emphasizing Jointness

President Bush brought his own considerable foreign policy experience to his leadership of the National Security Council, and restored collegial relations among department heads.

At a February 25, 1981, meeting chaired by Meese, Cabinet-level heads of the major foreign affairs agencies agreed on a plan to establish three Senior Interdepartmental Groups ( SIGs ) on foreign, defense, and intelligence problems, chaired respectively by the Secretaries of State and Secretary of Defense and the Director of Central Intelligence.

Since, the château of Rambouillet has become the summer residence of France's Presidents of the Republic, who entertain, and used to invite to hunting parties many foreign dignitaries, princes and heads of state.

Five French heads of state ( Adolphe Thiers, Raymond Poincaré, Paul Deschanel, Philippe Pétain, and Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing ), and one foreign head of state ( Léopold Sédar Senghor of Senegal ) have been members.

Today, the King David Hotel is part of the Dan Hotel Chain, and a member of The Leading Hotels of the World and continues to accommodate foreign heads of state and diplomats visiting Israel.

The prime minister appoints members of Cabinet including heads of ministries, totalling to approximately 22 members.

At the adoption of the new Instrument of Government of 1809, the two offices of Prime Minister for Justice () and Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs () were created, though their roles were no more than just the heads of their respective ministries.

Furthermore, some appointing powers, such as appointment of Provincial Governors and department heads at ministries, were transferred to the Cabinet of Finland.

Each minister of the Crown is responsible for the general administration of at least one government portfolio, and heads a corresponding ministry or ministries, known in Canada as departments or agencies.

Even though the cabinet included ministers from minority parties, all heads of ministries were either from the majority Croatian Democratic Union or soon defected to it.

Federal executive departments are analogous to ministries common in parliamentary or semi-presidential systems but, with the United States being a presidential system, their heads otherwise equivalent to ministers, do not form a government ( in a parliamentary sense ) nor are they led by a head of government separate from the head of state.

T ' ang's cabinet included the heads of the four great ministries of state ( war, the navy, home affairs and foreign affairs ), who ran their ministries from the large yamens that had previously been the premises of the provincial treasury.

In letters to each ministry, Grassley asked for the ministries to divulge specific financial information to the committee to determine whether or not funds collected by each organization were inappropriately utilized by ministry heads.

It consists of the premier, who presides over its meetings, the vice premier, ministers without portfolio, the heads of the ministries, and the heads of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission and the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission.

There are between 12 and 14 Ministers, most of whom are also heads of specific government ministries, although there are often one or two ministers without portfolio who have areas of responsibility inside one or more ministries.

This distinctive interest in studying the chronologies of heads of states, governments, ministries and other offices may be rigorously defined as institutional chronology or even as archontology ( from Greek, αρχων ( archon ), meaning ruler ; used specifically for supreme magistrates, as in Athens, or even kings, as in the Cimmerian Bosporus ).

There are around 25 members of the Cabinet, known as " Ministers ", all of whom are also heads of specific government ministries.

The Cabinet of Afghanistan is made of the heads of all the government ministries.

The governor is above a group of commissioners who he has placed as heads of ministries that oversee various portfolios such as Health and Housing ; both the governor and the commissioners form the Executive Council of Enugu State.

The Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus, headed by the prime minister, is the body of officials that are heads of various ministries of the Belarusian government.

The cabinet is responsible for overseeing their respective ministries, proposing laws, preparing the budget, negotiating and signing international agreements and treaties, and appointing undersecretaries, ambassadors, the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces and his assistants, Division Commanders or higher, the Director of the National Intelligence Service, and heads of security institutions.

As a further snub, the Regent, who scorned Bismarck as a " Landwehrleutnant " ( reserve lieutenant ), had declined to promote him to the rank of major-general, normal for the ambassador to Saint Petersburg ( and important as Prussia and Russia were close military allies, whose heads of state often communicated through military contacts rather than diplomatic channels ).

" One World " was Willkie's travelogue of his travels and meetings of the then-Allies heads of state, as well as ordinary citizens and soldiers in regions such as Russia and Iran.

In 1975, he invited the heads of government from West Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States to a summit in Rambouillet, to form the Group of Six ( now the G8, including Canada and Russia ) major economic powers.

* Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova of Moscow, Russia ( 1950 – 2003 ), rarest form of conjoined twins, only known case of dicephalus tetrabrachius tripus ( two heads, four arms, three legs ).

As Supreme ruler of Russia ( 1918 – 1920 ), he was recognized in this position by all the heads of the White movement, " De jure "-Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, " De facto "-Entente States.

Her correspondence with both Catherine the Great of Russia and King Stanislaw August of Poland, as well as several other dignitaries and heads of state often centered around the commission of several paintings that were often hung in her salon.

The team removed the heads of two of the corpses suspected to be Lin Biao and Ye Qun and took them back to Russia for forensic examination.

Ex-officio members of the WJC Executive are the heads of the five regional affiliates, currently Vadim Shulman of Ukraine ( Euro-Asian Jewish Congress ), Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor of Russia ( European Jewish Congress ), Evelyn Sommer of the United States ( WJC North America ), Jack Terpins of Brazil ( Latin American Jewish Congress ), and Shai Hermesh of Israel ( WJC Israel ).

It is a document of his world travels and meetings with many of the Allies ' heads of state as well as ordinary citizens and soldiers in locales such as El Alamein, Russia, and Iran.

Russia now has a Prime Minister who heads a cabinet and directs the administration, but the system is an example of presidentialism with the cover of a presidential prime minister, not an effective semipresidential constitutional model.

During 1577 – 1625 the Russian cross was between the heads of the double-headed eagle in the coat of arms of Russia.

* List of heads of the military of Imperial Russia # Ministry of the Navy

But nothing goes as Scofield planned and he finds out that the entire community of the heads America and Russia are members of the Matarese council, excluding the Presidents of the two countries.

Crowned heads of state such as Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Tsar Alexander II of Russia and King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who bestowed the ' Bad ' on Kissingen in 1883, were among the guests to the spa at this time.

The history of Russia is covered in thousands of studies, but we still cannot name a book providing documented dates for its heads of government in the 20th century as a constituent republic of the Soviet Union.

Politicians ( including heads of state ) and businessmen from several countries of Central Europe, Russia, Central Asia and the Middle East meet there to discuss economic and political matters.

-c. 1597 ) were two influential diplomats and heads of the Posolsky Prikaz during the reigns of Ivan the Terrible, Feodor I, and Boris Godunov in Russia.

In 1934, the Karaylar heads of the community in Berlin asked the Nazi authorities to exempt them from the regulations ; on the basis of their legal status in Russia.

In Russia and Ukraine, a particular dragon-like creature, Zmey Gorynych ( or ), has three heads, is green, walks on two back paws, has small front paws, and spits fire.

" Condolences to the Serbian church, people and officials were sent by Russian Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow, Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople and Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens held memorial service, Patriarch Daniel of Romania, Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Walter Kasper, Presidents and heads of Government of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Germany and France as well as leaders of countries that are territorially part of the Serbian Orthodox Church-Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro ( President Filip Vujanović ).

He was one of the few Entente heads of state to remain as such after the war without being killed ( as Charles XI of France, Jake Featherston of the C. S., and Michael II of Russia were ) or voted out of office ( as Winston Churchill was ).

Its statute was amended by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 26, 1947. It bears a similar name to the Imperial Order of St. Alexander Nevsky which had been established by Empress Catherine I of Russia in 1725, and continued to be bestowed by the heads of the House of Romanov after the 1917 Russian Revolution.