Miami, Panama City and Puebla served successively as interim secretariat headquarters during the negotiation process.

The Data Interchange Standards Association serves as the secretariat for ASC X12 and its X12 EDI and XML standards development process.

The UK government has addressed this since the late 1990s through funding incentives which require cross-Council collaboration on major new research programmes, and through encouragement to set up a formal ( but non-statutory ) cross-Council secretariat, known as Research Councils UK ( RCUK ) to undertake activities that cross the remits of all the Councils, such as creation of a joint electronic grant application process, development of improved impact assessment procedures, and a common international strategy.

The Northern Ireland Office has a close working relationship with the Irish Government as a co-guarantor of the peace process ; this includes the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference and its joint secretariat.

In 1966 The National Council of Chartered Accountants came into being with its own small secretariat – a further step in the process for unification which was finally achieved in 1980 when the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants was formed with 9012 members.

The Convention, which now has 51 Parties, identifies the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe ( UNECE ) as its secretariat.

Together with the University of Turin, Faculty of Law, the ITC offers training for ILO officers and secretariat members, as well as offering educational programmes.

Nepal has played an active role in the formation of the economic development-oriented South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation ( SAARC ) and is the site of its secretariat.

Its secretariat was in the building that houses the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

The functions of the secretariat are to make arrangements for sessions of the Conference of the Parties ( COP ) and its subsidiary bodies established under the Convention and to provide them with services as required.

Honecker was a candidate member for the secretariat of the Central Committee in 1950 ; by 1958, he had become a full member of the Politbüro.

FOEI is assisted by a small secretariat ( based in Amsterdam ) which provides support for the network and its agreed major campaigns.

At the end of 1944, Togliatti appointed him to the national secretariat of the Communist Organisation for Youth ( FGCI ); as a secretary of the FGCI, Berlinguer at one point presented Maria Goretti as an example for activists ; he was soon sent to Milan, and in 1945 he was appointed to the Central Committee as a member.

They are often supported by a small secretariat from the parent department and any expenditure is paid for by that department.

The HSGIC to which the NEPAD secretariat reports comprises three states for each region of the African Union, with former President Obasanjo ( Nigeria ) as elected chair, and Presidents Bouteflika ( Algeria ) and Wade ( Senegal ) as deputy chairmen.

In 1717 he reformed the secretariat system in Turin establishing individual secretaries for war, internal affairs and foreign affairs.

It designated the Secretary of State as chairman of the Senior Interdepartmental Group for Foreign Policy ( SIG ( FP )), and established a " permanent secretariat, composed of personnel of the State Department ," augmented " as necessary " by other agency personnel requested by the Secretary of State, to deal with foreign affairs matters.

The City of Ypres hosts the international campaign secretariat of Mayors for Peace, an international Mayoral organization mobilizing cities and citizens worldwide to abolish and eliminate nuclear weapons by the year 2020.

The secretariat is also in charge of approving the salary and allowance for the general service as well as providing advice to different UN agencies.

Another branch-Shared Services-provides secretariat support for several entities including:

Just " secretary " remained in use either as an abbreviation when clear in the context or for relatively modest positions such as administrative assistant of the officer ( s ) in charge, either individually or as member of a secretariat.

The IDNDR secretariat launched the RADIUS ( risk assessment tools for diagnosis of urban areas against seismic disasters ) initiative in 1996 to promote worldwide activities for the reduction of urban seismic risk, which experienced rapid growth particularly in developing countries, by helping to raise public awareness.

Though the commission's report suggested the option of having Madras as the temporary capital of Andhra State to allow smooth partitioning of the assets and the secretariat, Rajaji refused to allow Andhra State to have Madras even for a day.

* The Colombo Plan Secretariat, headed by a Secretary-General is located in Colombo, Sri Lanka, since 1951 and functions as the secretariat for the Consultative Committee and the Council.

The executive appoints the secretariat that is responsible for management and day-to-day leadership of the union.

The Centre for Human Rights, specifically the secretariat of the Working Group on Slavery, in close co-operation with the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs of the Department of International Economic and Social Affairs actively monitors this resolution.

The ExCom is elected by all member groups at a general meeting held every two years, and it is the ExCom which employs the secretariat.

One or more meetings were held every year and since 2001 the council has had a permanent secretariat.

The Fiji Military Forces and the Methodist Church are to make submissions at the meeting, but the secretariat of the Great Council has refused a request from the opposition Labour Party ( FLP ) to make one, ostensibly because of time constraints and on the ground that if they accepted a submission from the FLP, they would have to accept one from every political party.

He was replaced on a provisional basis by a five person secretariat which included former Lovestone associate Max Bedacht as " Acting Secretary " and well as opposition factional leader and trade union chief Bill Foster ; two relatively independent figures in the persons of cartoonist-turned-functionary Robert Minor and former Executive Secretary of the underground party Will Weinstone ; and Comintern Representative Boris Mikhailov ( pseudonym " G. Williams ") as the unpublicized power behind the throne.

After resigning the secretariat in 1625, the new Baron Baltimore made clear his intention to visit the colony: " I intend shortly ," he wrote in March, " God willing, a journey for Newfoundland to visit a plantation which I began there some few years since.

He also served as Secretary of the Imperial War Cabinet ( which also incorporated representatives of the Colonies and Dominion governments ) and gained a reputation for strong competency, so much so that when the full Cabinet was restored in 1919, the secretariat was retained and Hankey served as Secretary to the Cabinet for the next nineteen years.

The secretariat of the International Centre remained with the British Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) for all but one of the eight years 1932-1940.

Two others, Rudolf Chernyaev and Valdik Enger, were employees of the UN secretariat who did not have such status and in October were sentenced to 50 years in prison each.

The body has a permanent secretariat, the Anglican Communion Office, of which the Archbishop of Canterbury is president.

** The permanent secretariat of the ECC is the European Communications Office ( ECO )

According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) secretariat, the overwhelming direct cause of deforestation is agriculture.

The day-to-day running of the EPP Group is performed by its secretariat in the European Parliament, led by its Secretary-General.

The ILO secretariat ( staff ) is referred to as the International Labour Office.

' Timochenko ' announced the new commander in chief is ' Alfonso Cano ' After speculations in several national and international media about the ' softening up ' of the FARC and the announcement of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe that several FARC leaders were ready to surrender and free their captives, the secretariat of the FARC sent out a communiqué emphasizing the death of their founder would not change their approach towards the captives or the humanitarian agreement.

The work under the UNFCCC is facilitated by a secretariat in Bonn, Germany, which from July 2010 is headed by Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres.

One key task of the secretariat is to compile and transmit reports submitted to it.

The UNECE secretariat headquarters is in Geneva, Switzerland, and has an approximate budget of US $ 50 million.

Friends of the Earth International ( FoEI ) is supported by a secretariat based in Amsterdam, and an executive committee known as ExCom.

The association's permanent secretariat is at the Freie University in Berlin, Germany.

NEPAD is now a program of the African Union ( AU ) that has replaced the OAU in 2002, though it has its own secretariat based in South Africa to coordinate and implement its programmes.

There is a great lack of information about the day-to-day activities of the NEPAD secretariat — the website is notably uninformative — that does not help its case.

Her Majesty's Home Civil Service, also known as Her Majesty's Civil Service or the Home Civil Service, is the permanent bureaucracy or secretariat of Crown employees that supports Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom, which is composed of a cabinet of ministers chosen by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, as well as three devolved administrations: the Welsh Assembly Government, the Scottish Executive and the Northern Ireland Executive.

From the Synod is drawn an Executive Committee, and a secretariat.

* The staff of the secretariat is appointed by the secretary general according to the regulation laid G. A.

* The secretariat is located at the headquarter of the U. N in New York.