After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, at which time Belarus gained its independence, Belarus became a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ), NATO's Partnership for Peace, the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.

Burundi is a member of various international and regional organizations, including the United Nations, the African Union, the African Development Bank and the Francophonie.

The Central African Republic is an active member in several Central African organizations, including the Economic and Monetary Union ( CEMAC ), the Economic Community of Central African States ( CEEAC ), the Central African Peace and Security Council ( COPAX-still under formation ), and the Central Bank of Central African States ( BEAC ).

Other multilateral organizations — including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, United Nations agencies, European Union, and the African Development Bank -- and bilateral donors — including Germany, Japan, the European Union, and the United States — are significant development partners for the C. A. R.

The European Central Bank remits its interest income to the central banks of the member countries of the European Union.

Membership in International Organizations: The major organizations in which Colombia is a member include: the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Andean Pact, Caribbean Development Bank, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Group of 3, Group of 11, Group of 24, Group of 77, Inter-American Development Bank, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Chamber of Commerce, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Criminal Police Organization, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Labour Organization, International Maritime Organization, International Maritime Satellite Organization, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), International Olympic Committee, International Organization for Migration, International Organization for Standardization, International Telecommunication Union, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, International Trade Union Confederation, Latin American Economic System, Latin American Integration Association, Latin Union, Non-Aligned Movement, Organization of American States ( OAS ), Permanent Court of Arbitration, Rio Group, United Nations ( UN ), UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UN Industrial Development Organization, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Universal Postal Union, World Confederation of Labour, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, World Meteorological Organization, World Tourism Organization, and World Trade Organization.

Comoros also is a member of the African Union, the Arab League, the European Development Fund, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Indian Ocean Commission, and the African Development Bank.

The Irwin Union Bank building was built in 1954.

The building was designed to distance the Irwin Union Bank from traditional banking architecture, which mostly echoed imposing, neoclassical style buildings of brick or stone.

* Irwin Union Bank was designed by Eero Saarinen and includes an addition by Kevin Roche.

In 1987 the Saudi investor Abdullah Taha Bakhsh bought most of Union Bank of Switzerland's shares in Harken becoming its third largest investor owning 17 % of the company.

1900 saw Switzerland's first commemorative stamps, a set of three values issued for the 25th anniversary of the Universal Postal Union, with an allegorical design featuring various symbols of communication.

Although in Switzerland's peculiar political system, in which all four major parties form a coalition, it is very difficult to achieve a change of government, this election produced an upset with the strong showing of the right-wing, anti-European Union and anti-immigration Swiss People's Party.

Blocher built his political career through campaigning for smaller government, for a free-market economy, against Switzerland's membership in the European Union and for more tightly controlled immigration.

Switzerland's largest bank, and one of the world's large banks, Union Bank of Switzerland ( UBS ), since 1998 UBS AG, was also founded in Winterthur.

* In social and foreign policy, the Romands tend to favour government regulation ( influenced by the centralistic political mentality prevailing in France ) and an active foreign policy ( somewhat discarding Switzerland's neutrality ), especially in relation to the European Union.

He was the principal author of a proposal — the so-called Keynes Plan —— for an International Clearing Union.

NSC-68's principal thesis was that the Soviet Union intended to become the single dominant world power.

Egypt has been one of the leading recipients among the Mediterranean partners in terms of total funds received from the MEDA programme, the principal financial instrument of the European Union for the implementation of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.

At the time of Gabon's independence, two principal political parties existed: the Bloc Democratique Gabonais ( BDG ), led by Léon M ' Ba, and the Union Democratique et Sociale Gabonaise ( UDSG ), led by Jean-Hilaire Aubame.

At the time of Gabon's independence in 1960, two principal political parties existed: the Bloc Democratique Gabonais ( BDG ), led by Léon M ' Ba, and the Union Democratique et Sociale Gabonaise ( UDSG ), led by Jean-Hilaire Aubame.

At the time of Gabon's independence in 1960, two principal political parties existed: the Bloc Democratique Gabonais ( BDG ), led by Leon M ' Ba, and the Union Democratique et Sociale Gabonaise ( UDSG ), led by Jean-Hilaire Aubame.

Another national peasant organization, the National Union of Peasants ( Unión Nacional de Campesinos — UNC ), claiming a membership of 40, 000, was affiliated with the CGT for many years and was a principal force within the confederation.

Among the various free trade agreements that Morocco has ratified with its principal economic partners, are The Euro-Mediterranean free trade area agreement with the European Union with the objective of integrating the European Free Trade Association at the horizons of 2012 ; the Agadir Agreement, signed with Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia, within the framework of the installation of the Greater Arab Free Trade Area ; the US-Morocco Free Trade Agreement with United States which came into force on 1 January 2006, and lately the agreement of free exchange with Turkey.

The European Union, in the principal statement of its Badinter Committee, follows the Montevideo Convention in its definition of a state: by having a territory, a population, and a political authority.

The collapse of communist governments around the world in 1991, particularly North Korea's principal source of support, the Soviet Union, forced the North Korean economy to realign its foreign economic relations.

from Article 84 of the Constitution of India, which sets the principal qualifications for member of Parliament, and Article 75 of the Constitution of India, which sets the qualifications for the minister in the Union Council of Minister, and the argument that the position of Prime Minister has been described as ' first among equals ', we can describe following qualifications for the Prime Minister of India.

This complex occupies the site of the former Haus Vaterland, and its principal building, which for a few years was the headquarters of the large German trade union ver. di ( Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft, meaning United Services Union ), rises to 45 metres and has a curving glass facade designed to evoke the shape of that erstwhile landmark.

Russia gained international recognition as the principal successor to the Soviet Union, receiving the Soviet Union's permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council and positions in other international and regional organizations.

The breakup of the Soviet Union — long the principal source of training, material, and credit for the Syrian forces — may have slowed Syria's ability to acquire modern military equipment.

Historically, France has been Togo's principal trading partner, although other European Union countries are important to Togo's economy.

Estonia's principal markets became Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, and western Europe, with some exports to the United States and to the Soviet Union.

Because of the long period in which it took to build a battle fleet, Raeder was, despite his Anglophobia, hostile towards an anti-British foreign policy ( at least until the High Seas Fleet was resurrected ) and until 1937, Raeder saw his principal enemies as France, Poland and the Soviet Union.

He was sitting outside the Cooper Union one day when the principal of the school where he had earlier learned telegraphy happened to notice him.

Conradh na Gaeilge was among the principal organisations responsible for co-ordinating the successful campaign to make Irish an official language of the European Union.

The Atrium also acts as the principal hub for most day-to-day campus activities, due to its central location, linking together the Library and Robbins ' Centre Students Union, as well as connecting bridges to both the Cottrell Building and on-campus student residences.

All three leaders ratified previous agreements about the post-war occupation zones for Germany: three zones of occupation, one for each of the three principal Allies: The Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Its name was changed from Union Alternative in 2006 following the retirement of former principal Larry Brooks, who later became the principal of the Cowee Elementary school.

Naturally, this influenced its selection as one of the principal bases for supplies and troops for the Union Army.

DeQuincy was founded as a railroad settlement, and Kansas City Southern and Union Pacific railroads remain principal employers for area citizens.

The Village office of Western Union with George Towsley as manager and telegrapher continued in Hard's drugstore until 1905.

The old Morse system was replaced locally by the Simplex modern automatic method in 1929, when Ellamae Heckman ( Wilcox ) was manager of the Western Union office.

As Lincoln's election became evident, secessionists made clear their intent to leave the Union before he took office the next March.

His Amnesty Proclamation of December 8, 1863, offered pardons to those who had not held a Confederate civil office, had not mistreated Union prisoners, and would sign an oath of allegiance.

In response to Lord Chalfont's claim in that the Soviet Union was giving the European peace movement £ 100 million a year, Bruce Kent said, " If they were, it was certainly not getting to our grotty little office in Finsbury Park.

Eisenhower made clear his stance in his first State of the Union message in February 1953, saying " I propose to use whatever authority exists in the office of the President to end segregation in the District of Columbia, including the Federal Government, and any segregation in the Armed Forces ".

There is no EU-wide register of SEs ( an SE is registered on the national register of the member state in which it has its head office ), but each registration is to be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Since real political power belongs to the sole legal party, in certain states under Marxist constitutions of the constitutionally socialist state type inspired by the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR ) and its constitutive Soviet republics, there was no formal office of head of state, but rather the leader of the legislative branch was considered to be the closest common equivalent of a head of state as a natural person.

Such arrangements are not to be confused with supranational entities which are not states and are not defined by a common monarchy but may ( or not ) have a symbolic, essentially protocollary, titled highest office, e. g. Head of the Commonwealth ( held by the British crown, but not legally reserved for it ) or ' Head of the Arab Union ' ( 14 February-14 July 1958, held by the Hashemite King of Iraq, during its short-lived Federation with Jordan, its Hashemite sister-realm ).

In the European Union, the Third Non-Life Directive and the Third Life Directive, both passed in 1992 and effective 1994, created a single insurance market in Europe and allowed insurance companies to offer insurance anywhere in the EU ( subject to permission from authority in the head office ) and allowed insurance consumers to purchase insurance from any insurer in the EU.

Upon hearing of Polk's election to office, Tyler urged Congress to pass a joint resolution admitting Texas to the Union ; Congress complied on February 28, 1845.

Another example would be the former Soviet Union where only members of the Communist Party were allowed to vote or hold office ; the French First Republic government under the Directory ; and the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth ( only the nobility could vote ).

After Mikhail Gorbachev took the office of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in March 1985, he began a series of political reforms that were resisted by many established members of the Communist Party.

Later that month, before the Supreme Soviet, he proposed the creation of a new office of President of the Soviet Union, for himself to be elected by the Congress of People's Deputies rather than the popular elections.

Additionally the remarkably low price for which Daimler-Benz had been allowed to secure their plot had prompted questions from the Berlin Auditor-General's office and the European Union in Brussels, after which Daimler-Benz were billed for an additional sum.

In the Soviet Union for example, the General Secretary of the Communist Party did not necessarily hold a state office like president or prime minister to effectively control the system of government.

For example, Mikhail Gorbachev initially did not hold the presidency of the Soviet Union, that office being given as an honour to former Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.

Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, defines unemployed as those persons age 15 to 74 who are not working, have looked for work in the last four weeks, and ready to start work within two weeks, which conform to ILO standards.

Since 1989, in recognition that the responsibility of reporting the State of the Union formally belongs to the president who held office during the past year, newly inaugurated Presidents have not officially called their first speech before Congress a " State of the Union " message.

A shop especially designed to cater to the university students has also been set up inside the Student Union office.

Ahtisaari's office — the UN Office of the Special Envoy for Kosovo ( UNOSEK ) — is located in Vienna and includes liaison staff from NATO, the European Union and the United States.

During his second term in office, in May – June 1988, more than five years after using the term " evil empire ," Reagan visited the new reformist General Secretary of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow.

In August 1919 a conservative president was elected – António José de Almeida ( whose Evolutionist party had come together in wartime with the PRP to form a flawed, because incomplete, Sacred Union ) – and his office was given the power to dissolve parliament.

In 1994, after a political agreement ( the Olivos Pact ) with the Radical Civic Union party leader, former president Raúl Alfonsín, Menem succeeded in having the Constitution modified to allow presidential re-election, so that he could run for office once again in 1995.