Following the assassination in Parliament of Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan and parliament Speaker Karen Demirchyan and six other officials, on 27 October 1999, a period of political instability ensued during which an opposition headed by elements of the former Armenian National Movement government attempted unsuccessfully to force Kocharyan to resign.

A new party, the Republic Party, is headed by ex-Prime Minister Aram Sargsyan, brother of Vazgen Sargsyan, and has become the primary voice of the opposition, which also includes the Armenian Communist Party, the National Unity party of Artashes Geghamyan, and elements of the former Ter-Petrosyan government.

* Peter MacKay, lawyer, Canadian Minister of National Defence

In 2001, former King Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha returned to power, this time as Prime Minister with his National Movement Simeon II.

That was the fount and origin of the famous declaration about the National Home for the Jews in Palestine .... As soon as I became Prime Minister I talked the whole matter over with Mr Balfour, who was then Foreign Secretary.

Subsequently, the Turkish Cypriots established their own separatist institutions with a popularly elected de facto President and a Prime Minister responsible to the National Assembly exercising joint executive powers.

In 1974, following a coup sponsored by the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and executed by the Cypriot National Guard the invasion of troops from Turkey ( citing its authority as one of the three guarantor powers established by the Constitution ), the Turkish Cypriots formally set up their own institutions with a popularly-elected separatist president and a Prime Minister, responsible to the National Assembly, exercising joint executive powers.

Chiang appointed a Muslim General, Bai Chongxi, as the Minister of National Defence of the Republic of China, which controlled the ROC military.

Regular ceremonies of the Emperor with a constitutional basis are the Prime Minister investitures in the Imperial palace throne room and the Speech from the Throne ceremony in the House of Councillors in the National Diet Building.

* 1942 – World War II: Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of German-occupied Norway, appoints Vidkun Quisling the Minister President of the National Government.

Hungarian fascist Gyula Gömbös rose to power as Prime Minister of Hungary in 1932 and attempted to entrench his Party of National Unity throughout the country ; created an eight-hour work day, a forty-eight hour work week in industry, and sought to entrench a corporatist economy ; and pursued irredentist claims on Hungary's neighbors.

As Minister of National Education, de Klerk was a supporter of segregated universities, and as a leader of the National Party in Transvaal, he was not known to advocate reform.

Under the 1991 constitution, in the event of the president's death, the Prime Minister, the National Assembly president, and the defense minister were to share power until a new election could be held.

Gurgenidze implemented only two changes in the Cabinet of Georgia so far, replacing Alexandre Lomaia, the former Minister for Education and Science and new Secretary of National Security Council with Maia Miminoshvili, former Head of the National Assessment and Examination Centre ( NAEC ).

At the 1962 general election the Grenada National Party won a majority and Herbert Blaize became Chief Minister for the second time.

When US troops withdew from Grenada in December 1983 Nicholas Braithwaite of the National Democratic Congress was appointed Prime Minister of an interim administration by the Governor General Sir Paul Scoon until elections could be organised.

The first democratic elections since 1976 were held in December 1984 and were won by the Grenada National Party under Herbert Blaize who won 14 out of 15 seats in elections and served as Prime Minister until his death in December 1989.

In August 1989, Prime Minister Blaize broke with the GNP to form another new party, The National Party ( TNP ), from the ranks of the NNP.

Guinea's armed forces are divided into five branches — army, navy, air force, the paramilitary National Gendarmerie and the Republican Guard — whose chiefs report to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who is subordinate to the Minister of Defense.

::: The Prime Minister is appointed by the President with the consent of the National Assembly.

::: The President of the Republic may, after consulting the Prime Minister and the Presidents of the Houses of Parliament, declare the National Assembly dissolved.

The Defence Minister of Serbia, Dragan Šutanovac, stated in a 2011 meeting in Luanda that Serbia would negotiate with the Angolan military authorities for the construction of a new military hospital in Angola.

On 15 February 2008 Serbian Minister of Defence Dragan Sutanovac was pictured testing a Barnett crossbow during a public exercise of the Serbian army's Special Forces in Nis, 200 km south of capital Belgrade.

* that the Defence portfolio not be given to the Prime Minister

Queen Margrethe II is the de jure Commander-in-Chief per the Danish constitution, however according to the Danish Defense Law the Minister of Defence serves as the commander of the Danish Defence ( through the Chief of Defence and the Defence Command ) and the Danish Home Guard ( through the Home Guard Command ).

The Coordinating Minister of Internal and External Security accords the policies and actions that will be adopted by the following institutions as regards internal and external security: the Ministry of Government and Police, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defence, and the Secretariat General for the Public administration.

Thirdly, the president appointed the head of the military intelligence, Abdel Fatah El-Sisi, as Minister of Defence to replace Tantawi.

This is similar to the system in Germany, where article 65a of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany vests it with the Federal Minister of Defence.

On October 27, President Mirza swore in a twelve-member cabinet that included Army Commander General Ayub Khan as Defence Minister as well as chief martial law administrator of the country, along with three other senior military officers in ministerial positions.

Within the government, preparative discussions are conducted in the government committee of foreign and security policy ( ulko-ja turvallisuuspoliittinen ministerivaliokunta ), which includes the Prime Minister and at least the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Defence, and at most four other ministers as necessary.

In practice, that role is ceremonial, with actual authority in the hands of the Defence Minister and the Chief of the Defence Force ( CDF ).

The then Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard, and the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, were also in attendance, and Clark was accompanied by the official NZ Defence Force party, veterans of several past wars, and 10 New Zealand college students who won the New Zealand ' Prime Minister's Essay Competition ' with their work on Gallipoli.

Röhm lobbied Hitler to appoint him Minister of Defence, a position held by conservative General Werner von Blomberg.

In Germany, the Basic Law of the Federal Republic vests this authority in the Minister of Defence in normal peace-time ( article 65a ), and that command authority is transferred to the Federal Chancellor when a state of defence is invoked ( article 115b ): something which has never happened so far.

* Allen Fairhall ( LP ), Minister for Defence

After the end of his viceregal tenure, Alexander was sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and thereafter, in order to serve as the British Minister of Defence in the Cabinet of Winston Churchill, into the Imperial Privy Council.

** Joseph Tsang Mang Kin 曾繁興 / 曾繁兴 ( 1938 -; Meixian, Guangdong ; born in Mauritius ), Minister of Art and Culture, 1995 – 2000

The CAAB recommended that Laurie Thomas, a former Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia and of the Queensland Art Gallery be appointed Director, but the Prime Minister John Gorton took no action on this recommendation, as he apparently favoured the appointment of James Johnson Sweeney, although he was already 70.

In 1961 they were banned from the Haus der Kunst ( House of Art ) by the Bavarian Minister of Culture.

In February 2007, the Senate inquiry heard from the Northern Territory Art Minister, Marion Scrymgour, that backpackers were often the artists of Aboriginal art being sold in tourist shops around Australia.

There exists a procedure for the Prime Minister to issue ordinances in such areas, but this procedure requires Parliament's express consent ( see Art 38 of the 1958 Constitution ).

The couple started a school of applied art, the Leeds Technical School of Art, in 1871, and became well renowned for their work in fixing colour photography on to metal and pottery, leading to them being commissioned for portraits of Queen Victoria and the long-serving Prime Minister William Gladstone produced in this way, that were included alongside other mementos of the time in a time capsule – manufactured by Whitley Partners of Hunslet – which was placed in the foundations of Cleopatra's Needle on the embankment of the River Thames.

Negotiations continued between the Canadian government and the shippers, however an ultimatum was given and the three contractors failed to reach an agreement by a certain deadline, according to Art Eggleton, then the Minister of National Defence.

Japanese Prime Minister Masayoshi Ōhira visited the Freer Gallery of Art in 1979.

Vice Admiral Greg Maddison was called before the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs to address claims that Minister of Defence Art Eggleton had purposely misled the public and the government, even failing to inform the Prime Minister that JTF2 had been operating in Afghanistan.

In early November 2000, Conservative Defence Critic David Price stated that JTF2 had been deployed to Kosovo, however, this was denied by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and Defence Minister Art Eggleton.

On 8 May 1998, Minister of National Defence the Right Honourable Art Eggleton announced in North Bay that the base would stay open indefinitely.

Ceremonies for the play's opening included a number of speakers, including Minister of Art Mihail Ralea and Iosif Eselaohn of the socialist party Ihud.

* Art Evans as Minister

* Finalists – Minister ’ s Awards for Excellence in Art

Sinowatz, educated as a historian, was Minister of Education and Art in the Austrian government from 1971 to 1983.

* Art O ' Connor ( 1888 – 1950 ), Minister for Agriculture in the second Dáil cabinet ( 1921 ) and briefly leader of Sinn Féin after the foundation of Fianna Fáil by Éamon de Valera ( 1927 ).

She guest starred on Flight of the Conchords episode " Prime Minister " as Karen, an Art Garfunkel fanatic.

* Art Ellison as Minister

Late 1997 saw the band put together their third group art exhibition, Mentals III, which was opened by former Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, at the Manly Art Gallery ( Paul Keating had opened their second group exhibition in 1990 ).

* 1998-Education Minister ’ s Art Encouragement Prize in Japan

Burtniak defeated Tory candidate Art Rampton by 999 votes in the 1973 election, and was retained as Highways Minister in the Schreyer government's second term.