There was no directive for it -- the Security Council's resolution had not mentioned political matters, and in any case the United Nations by the terms of its charter may not interfere in the political affairs of any nation, whether to unify it, federalize it or Balkanize it.

When over 100 parliamentarians from the twelve member nations of the Council of Europe came together in Strasbourg in the summer of 1949 for the first ever meeting of the Council's Consultative Assembly, drafting a " charter of human rights " and creating a Court to enforce it was high on their agenda.

Before and after publication of Zelen's results astronomer and charter CSICOP member Dennis Rawlins, the CSICOP Council's only astronomer at the time, repeatedly objected to the procedure and to CSICOP's subsequent reportage of it.

These institutions bind the Council's members to a code of human rights which, though strict, are more lenient than those of the United Nations charter on human rights.

President George W. Bush and Secretary Tommy G. Thompson renewed the Council's charter on July 19, 2001.

These observers, graciously received and seated as honored guests right in front of the podium on the floor of the council chamber, did not formally take part in the Council's debate, but they mingled freely with the Catholic bishops and theologians who constituted the council, and with the other observers as well, in the break area during the council sessions.

He turned down the British Council's invitation to be Britain's representative at the 1999 Venice Biennale because " it didn't feel right ".

East Suffolk County Council's headquarters was in Ipswich, which was a county borough in its own right.

A high majority of the homes are Council built, but many have been sold to the occupiers in the Council's right to buy policy scheme during the 1970s and 1980s.

By 1945, the USSR — a founding member of the United Nations — was one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, giving it the right to veto any of the Security Council's resolutions ( see Soviet Union and the United Nations ).

Within this new system, working Carpenters slowly lost the right to vote for their Local's Business Agents and Organizers, thus consolidating all power into the Regional Council's officers and leaving Locals and rank and file members to vote on Delegate to the intermediary Regional Councils.

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One of the first acts of the council, was to appoint Brendan Foster – a former schoolteacher turned world-class athlete and a native of Tyne and Wear who would later become " the father of Gateshead athletics " – as the Council's sport and recreation manager.

The Mayor has significant executive powers, their own staff and the ability to appoint the chairpersons of the Council's boards.

Implementation of the Council's directives on the liturgy was carried out under the authority of Pope Paul VI by a special papal commission, later incorporated in the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, and, in the areas entrusted to them, by national conferences of bishops, which, if they had a shared language, were expected to collaborate in producing a common translation.

Brazilian President Itamar Franco strongly opposed the UN decision, saying " The Security Council's special powers should not be invoked in an indiscriminate manner in the name of a ' search for more rapid means ' to respond to attacks on democracy, because it violates the basic principles of peaceful co-existence between nations and normal UN legal procedures.

Due to the expressed reservations and especially to opposition from Poland, whose Minister of Science and Information Technology made a special journey to Brussels to demand that the directive be dropped from the agenda, the Council's vote was postponed " indefinitely ".

The Council's special rapporteur on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is its only expert mandate with no year of expiry.

Members also participate in a variety of special events, roundtables and other initiatives relevant to the Council's mandate.

This Council's recognition of the special powers of Rome, Alexandria and Antioch served as the basis of the theory of the three Petrine sees ( Rome and Antioch were said to be founded by Saint Peter and Alexandria by his disciple Mark the Evangelist ) that was later upheld, especially in Rome and Alexandria, in opposition to the theory of the five Pentarchy sees.

Governor Harding refused the Council's request that he convene a special session of the Iowa General Assembly to grant the Council legal standing and money to spend.

Has done much to encourage and develop the use of modern statistical methods by medical laboratory investigators, and, as Chairman of the Medical Research Council's Statistical Committee, to secure the adequate planning and execution of field investigations.

The National Council's publications on doublespeak have made significant contributions in describing the need for reform where clarity in communication has been deliberately distorted.

In May 2012, he was awarded the Atlantic Council's award, for distinguished humanitarian leadership, due to his charitable work with wounded soldiers.

It has been argued that resolutions passed outside of Chapter VII can also be binding ; the legal basis for that is the Council's broad powers under Article 24 ( 2 ), which states that " in discharging these duties ( exercise of primary responsibility in international peace and security ), it shall act in accordance with the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations ".

In 2006, Teitirake Corrie, the Rabi Island Council's representative to the Parliament of Kiribati, called for Banaba to secede from Kiribati and join Fiji.

The Government of Lebanon should heed the Council's repeated calls for the parties to respect the Blue Line in its entirety.

In 2007 the Department for Communities and Local Government referred Ipswich Borough Council's bid to become a new unitary authority to the Boundary Committee.

" Such views of the Second Vatican Council were condemned by the Church's hierarchy, and the works of theologians who were active in the Council or who closely adhered to the Council's aspect of reform ( such as Hans Küng ) have often been criticized by the Church for espousing a belief system that is radical and misguided.

The European Union confirmed Turkey's status as candidate for membership at the European Council's Helsinki Summit in 1999.

* 2001-Nordic Council's Literature Prize for Oppdageren

Powell also criticised the United Nations Security Council's resolution calling for a " peaceful solution ".

In the context of the Council's stated intention “ to develop the doctrine of recent popes on the inviolable rights of the human person and the constitutional order of society ”, Dignitatis Humanae spells out the Church's support for the protection of religious liberty.

Recommendations for the £ 400 million project have been approved, and planning approval was given by Slough Borough Council's planning committee on 9 July 2009.

The ICSU Advisory Committee, which is in the Research Council's Office of International Affairs, facilitates participation of members in international scientific unions and is a liaison for U. S. American Civil Warnational committees for the individual scientific unions.

The council also passed five canons condemning Nestorius and Caelestius and their followers as heretics and a sixth one decreeing deposition from clerical office or excommunication for those who did not accept the Council's decrees.

* Canon 6 decreed deposition from clerical office or excommunication for those who did not accept the Council's decrees

Stirling Council's application for city status was specifically for the urban area of the ( now former ) Royal Burgh of Stirling and included proposed city boundaries.

His attitude toward the Council's surrender of Maine, in return for an extension of the truce with France and a French bride for Henry, must have contributed to his appointment on 30 July as Lieutenant of Ireland.

In 2005, the National Science and Technology Council's Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction of the United States reported that the Mameyes landslide held the record for having inflicted " the greatest loss of life by a single landslide " up to that year.

The fight was so close that WBC president José Sulaimán decided to give Laporte a rematch vs Sanchez for the World Boxing Council's world title.