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The Presidency of the European Union adopted a declaration on the occasion stating that " This battle was also the grounds on which the international community of States has developed and adopted instruments of International Humanitarian Law, the international law rules relevant in times of armed conflict, in particular the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, the 60th anniversary of which will be celebrated this year.
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Presidency and European
This goal was rapidly met with great success, as the nation joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004, and held the Presidency of the European Union during the first half of 2009.
The congress will also adopt a process presented by the socialists as more democratic and transparent for the selection of their candidate for the Presidency of the European Commission in 2014.
After much negotiation, and following a change in the French Presidency, Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom ( with Gibraltar ) eventually joined the European Communities on 1 January 1973.
José Sócrates, as Prime Minister of Portugal, presided over the rotative Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the period July – December 2007.
The castle is also used for hosting official State visits as well as more informal foreign affairs engagements, State banquets, and Government policy launches, as well as acting as the central base for Ireland's hosting of the European Presidency approximately every 10 years.
The European Council of 21-22 June 2007 delivered to the Portuguese Presidency the mandate to call an IGC.
His innovative views, energy and fluency in French won him — and through him, Ireland — a status in European affairs far exceeding the country's size and ensured that the first Irish Presidency of the European Council in 1975 was a noted success.
During the German Presidency of 1999, the European City of Culture programme was renamed the European Capital of Culture.
* Presidency of the Council of the European Union
He also presided over a successful Irish Presidency of the European Union in 1996 and helped finalise the Stability and Growth Pact, which establishes macroeconomic parameters for countries participating in the single European currency, the euro.
When Finland held the rotating EU Presidency in the second half of 2006, Tuomioja had a prominent role as the spokesman of European Union foreign policy.
The Presidency of the Council of the European Union is responsible for the functioning of the Council of the European Union, the upper house of the European Union's ( EU ) legislature.
Until 2009, the Presidency had assumed political responsibility in all areas of European integration and it played a vital role in brokering high level political decisions.
The Treaty of Lisbon reduced the importance of the Presidency, significantly by officially separating the European Council from the Council of the European Union.
As minister he chaired the European Union Council of Trade Ministers during Ireland's six-month Presidency of the European Council as well as co-chairing a round of the World Trade Organization talks in 1996.
Since the Council's first reading fell during the Irish Presidency of the European Council, she was chair of the meeting that discarded the amendments by the European Parliament which confirmed the exclusion of software innovations from what constitutes patentable subject matter.
Presidency and Union
* 1860 – Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
Jenkins was educated at Abersychan County School, University College, Cardiff, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was twice defeated for the Presidency of the Oxford Union but took First Class Honours in Politics, Philosophy and Economics ( PPE ).
* The American Presidency Project: State of the Union Messages " Established in 1999 as a collaboration between John Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara ," currently ( January 2010 ), the APP " archives contain 87, 448 documents related to the study of the Presidency.
Medill and the Tribune were instrumental in Lincoln's nomination for the Presidency, and were equally supportive of the Union cause during the American Civil War.
At the end of the year he was defeated for the Presidency of the Oxford Union by another Balliol candidate, Alan Wood, on the issue of whether the Chamberlain government should give way to a left-wing Popular Front.
In one of the most prominent condemnations of Soviet human rights abuses by any U. S. President, Ronald Reagan, during his Presidency, labeled the Soviet Union an " evil empire " and several influential anti-communist intellectuals defended the label.
* 1980 State of the Union Address, from the American Presidency Project.
The paper was a significant participant in the activities of the International Ladies ' Garment Workers ' Union ; Benjamin Schlesinger, a former president of the ILGWU, became the General Manager of the paper in 1923, then returned to the Presidency of the union in 1928.
* Text of 1829 State of the Union at The American Presidency Project
Henry A. Wallace, his Vice President for most of this period, was largely regarded by many governmental and Democratic insiders as too close to the Soviet Union and potentially a Communist sympathizer, so that moving him in to any sort of Acting Presidency or co-Presidency was never seriously considered.
He also served as leader of the Indian National Congress, Premier of the Madras Presidency, Governor of West Bengal, Minister for Home Affairs of the Indian Union and Chief Minister of Madras state.
# not being able to push through their own interests, as the role of Council Presidency is seen as an impartial instance ; member states trying to push for initiatives of their own national interest are likely to see them failing in the medium run ( e. g. the French 2008 Presidency and the Mediterranean Union project ), as they need consensus and do not have enough time to reach it.
Presidency and adopted
Though the King James Version ( KJV ) was always commonly used, it was officially adopted in the 1950s when J. Reuben Clark, of the First Presidency, argued extensively that newer translations, such as Revised Standard Version of 1952, were of lower quality and less compatible with LDS tradition.
* The American Presidency Project, contains the text of the national platforms that were adopted by the national conventions ( 1844 – 1856 )
Throughout his Presidency, Narayanan adopted the policy of not visiting places of worship or godmen / godwomen ; he is the only President to have followed this practice.
* The American Presidency Project, contains the text of the national platforms that were adopted by the conventions ( 1840 – 2004 )
* The American Presidency Project, contains the text of the national platforms that were adopted by the conventions ( 1856 – 2008 )
The agreement finally negotiated by Corbett and Daul, with the 2006 Austrian Council Presidency gave the European Parliament a right to block individual Commission / comitology decisions, where the nature of the decision is quasi-legislative and where the original legislation was adopted by Parliament and Council under the EU's co-decision procedure.
In November 1999, the Finnish EU Presidency held a Ministerial Conference on the Northern Dimension, where an Inventory of current activities under the Northern Dimension was adopted.
He was president of the National Union Convention of 1866 in Philadelphia, and also of the 1872 Democratic National Convention in Baltimore, which adopted the nomination of Horace Greeley for the Presidency.
Presidency and declaration
Simon M. Kapwepwe and Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula who before the declaration of a One Party State had been leaders of the UPP and ANC political parties respectively, had joined UNIP with the intention of challenging for the Presidency.
Section 3 provides that when the President transmits a written declaration to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, stating that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of the Presidency, and until the President sends another written declaration to the aforementioned officers declaring himself able to resume discharging those powers and duties, the Vice President serves as Acting President.
In 1937, Rajaji was elected Premier of the Madras Presidency and served until 1940, when he resigned due to Britain's declaration of war on Germany.
Although the MST wholeheartedly declared support for the candicacy of Dilma Roussef to the Presidency, her declarations after being elected offered the movement very qualified support: in a declaration on national broadcast in November 2010, she declared the land reform issue to be a question " of human rights ", i. e., a purely humanitarian one.
The institution of the Presidency of the modern Republic of Macedonia began after the Macedonian declaration of independence on 8 September 1991.
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