The Institute hosts the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual meeting of Asia-Pacific region Defense Ministers in Singapore, and the Manama Dialogue, an annual meeting of Persian Gulf-region security ministers and officials in Bahrain.

From 21 – 23 July, Crean attended the APEC Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Trade and the OECD Roundtable on Sustainable Development in Singapore.

* Singapore: Ministers of State and Senior Ministers of State are members of the executive branch of the Government of Singapore, senior in rank to Parliamentary Secretaries and Senior Parliamentary Secretaries, but junior to full Cabinet Ministers.

Since the mid-1980s, Singapore has usually had two Deputy Prime Ministers at a time.

The position of Senior Minister has only been held by four persons -- Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Chok Tong, who were the first and second Prime Ministers of Singapore respectively ; and S. Rajaratnam and S. Jayakumar, who served as Deputy Prime Ministers.

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It was officially opened on 18 April the same year by the Prime Ministers of both countries, namely Dato ' Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia and Goh Chok Tong of Singapore.

Among other things, it recommended that a Council of Ministers be created, composed of three ex officio Official Members and six Elected Members of the Legislative Assembly of Singapore appointed by the Governor on the recommendation of the Leader of the House, who would be the leader of the largest political party or coalition of parties having majority support in the legislature.

In 1955, a Council of Ministers was created, made up of three ex officio Official Members and six Elected Members of the Legislative Assembly of Singapore, appointed by the Governor on the recommendation of the Leader of the House.

Among other things, it recommended that a Council of Ministers be created, composed of three ex officio Official Members and six Elected Members of the Legislative Assembly of Singapore appointed by the Governor on the recommendation of the Leader of the House, who would be the leader of the largest political party or coalition of parties having majority support in the legislature.

Executive power lies in the hands of the Cabinet, which is made up of the Prime Minister of Singapore ( the head of government ) and other Ministers.

He was confirmed by the ASEAN Foreign Ministers during their 40th annual meeting in Manila in July 2007 and succeeded Ong Keng Yong from Singapore on January 1, 2008.

Since Singapore's independence in 1965, it has been the official residence of the Prime Minister of Singapore, though none of Singapore's Prime Ministers has ever lived there.

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Many of Canberra's suburbs are named after former Prime Ministers, famous Australians, early settlers, or use Aboriginal words for their title.

Other significant state owned newspapers are the daily Respublika ( The Republic ), published by the Cabinet of Ministers, and the weeklies Sem ’ Dnei ( Seven Days ) and Narodnaya Gazeta ( The People ’ s Paper ).

As of 23 December 2011, the Deputy Prime Ministers are Radimir Čačić, Neven Mimica, Branko Grčić, and Milanka Opačić.

In the UK, the Prime Ministers Disraeli, Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Harold Macmillan, and present Prime Minister David Cameron are progressive conservatives.

Ministers are understood to serve under the oversight of the elders.

However, the majority of the important decisions are held not in the main meetings themselves, but at the informal ' retreats ': introduced at the second CHOGM, in Ottawa, by Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau, but reminiscent of the excursions to Chequers or Dorneywood in the days of the Prime Ministers ' Conferences.

Of the 27 member states of the European Union, there are two with ELDR-affiliated Prime Ministers: Andrus Ansip in Estonia ( Reform Party ), and Mark Rutte in the Netherlands ( VVD ).

Six Prime Ministers from neighbouring countries are expected to participate, according to a Fiji Times report on 23 February.

Ministers are not obliged to be members of the Eduskunta ( parliament ) and need not be formally identified with any political party.

The other members of the government are the Federal Ministers ; they are chosen by the Chancellor.

This is certainly true for the Prime Ministers, but there are many Ministers and Members of Parliament with no relation to political families.

The President, Prime Minister and Ministers of the region are elected by simple majority, in contrast to the Iraqi Council of Representatives which requires two thirds support.

Executive powers are mainly exercised by a Chief Minister and nine ministers, known collectively as the Council of Ministers.

Executive powers are now exercised by a Chief Minister and nine ministers, known collectively as the Council of Ministers responsible to the States Assembly.

Ministers are then proposed both by the Chief Minister and any other elected member, the final decision being made by the States assembly.

Ministers are, however, bound by a Code of Conduct for Ministers approved in 2006.

Ministers of other Christian Churches are entitled to receive the accolade.

Important government decisions are vetted by the Council of Ministers.

State governments are led by Chief Ministers ( Menteri Besar in Malay states or Ketua Menteri in states without hereditary rulers ), who are state assembly members from the majority party in the Dewan Undangan Negeri.

Ministers are selected from among the members of the House of Representatives, which usually consists of 65 members unless bonus seats are given to a party which gains an absolute majority of votes but not a Parliamentary majority.

The highest honour in the Japanese honours system, the Collar of the Order of the Chrysanthemum, has only been conferred upon select Prime Ministers and eminent statesmen, and rarely when they were still alive ; the last such award to a living Prime Minister was to Saionji Kinmochi in 1928.

A rose is planted in this garden for each of the highest ranking Rosarian Prime Ministers.

The prime minister presided over the Council of Ministers, the highest executive body of state, from 1981 until it was renamed to Government in the 1992 constitution.

On 21 March he informed the Council of Ministers that only the Social Democrats could form a new government, as they were the party with the highest public support.

The Prime Minister of Ukraine () is Ukraine's head of government presiding over the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which is the highest body of the executive branch of the Ukrainian government.

The highest government body of the executive branch is the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine not the president.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (, Kabinet ministriv Ukrayiny ) is the highest body of state executive power in Ukraine also referred to as the Government of Ukraine (, Uryad Ukrayiny ).

Conservative Ministers Witte and Sipiagin credited Sviatopolk-Mirskii with being an honorable, intelligent man of the highest moral principles, which is notable due to his attempts at liberal reform in Imperial Russia while Minister.

... his Majesty's Ministers have thought it necessary for the honour of the British nation and for the advancement of Science that the right of the Captors to the Collection should be on this occasion wav'd and that the whole should be returned to M. de Billardiere, in order that he may be able to publish his Observations on Natural History in a complete manner ... By this her Majesty will lose an acquisition to her herbarium, which I very much wish'd to see deposited there, but the national character of Great Britain will certainly gain much credit for holding a conduct towards Science and Scientific men liberal in the highest degree.

Augustine Thomas O ' Donnell, Baron O ' Donnell GCB ( born 1 October 1952 ) is a former British senior civil servant and economist, who between 2005 and 2011 ( under three Prime Ministers ) served as the Cabinet Secretary, the highest official in the British Civil Service.

The Council of Ministers ( Ministerrat der DDR ) was the government of East Germany and the highest organ of the state apparatus.

Elim Christian Mission International is run by a global spiritual Directive, a Council of Ministers ( acting as an advisory and consultative body ) people led by Mario Vega, who in turn is the Senior Pastor of the church in San Salvador, so practically it is the highest authority of the mission not only locally but internationally speaking.

Others who went on to achieve the highest distinction include four British Prime Ministers — Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, Clement Attlee and Herbert Asquith — as well as Carwyn Jones ( First Minister of Wales ), Mahatma Gandhi, M A Jinnah ( first Governor General and founder of Pakistan ), and Jawaharlal Nehru ( first Prime Minister of India ).

The Three Ducal Ministers (), also translated as the Three Dukes, Three Excellencies, or the Three Lords, was the collective name for the three highest officials in ancient China.

Under this system, the Three Ducal Ministers all held the highest rank of ten-thousand-bushel.