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  Twentieth General Assembly Special Session, 8-10 June 1998
Kubanychbek Jumaliev, Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Almerino Manhenge, Minister of the Interior of Mozambique.
Guntars Krasts, Prime Minister of the Republic of Latvia.
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  Prime Minister of Algeria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Prime Minister is the head of government of Algeria.
The Prime Minister is appointed by the President of Algeria, along with other ministers and members of the government that the new Prime Minister recommends.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Algeria   (132 words)

  
 Prime Minister - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While the modern office of Prime Minister developed in the UK the first actual usage of the word Prime Minister or Premiere Minstre was used by Cardinal Richelieu, when, in 1624 he was named to head the royal council as prime minister of France.
The Prime Minister is formally the presiding minister of the Privy Council and the cabinet.
Contrary to popular and journalistic belief, most prime ministers in parliamentary systems are not appointed for a specific term of office and in effect may remain in power through a number of elections and parliaments.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prime_minister   (2876 words)

  
 Algeria
Algeria was brought into the Ottoman Empire by Khair ad-Din and his brother Aruj, who established Algeria's modern boundaries in the north and made its coast a base for the corsairs; their privateering peaked in Algiers in the 1600s.
The Prime Minister appoints the Council of Ministers.
Algeria’s financial and economic indicators improved during the mid-1990s, in part because of policy reforms supported by the IMF and debt rescheduling from the Paris Club.
creekin.net /n3-algeria.html   (1393 words)

  
 Middle East Report Online: Interpreting the Israel's 1999 Election Campaign , by Joel Beinin
Although five candidates are competing in the direct ballot for Prime Minister, there are only three serious contenders: Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and Yitzhak Mordechai, leader of the newly formed Center Party and former Minister of Defense in the current Likud government.
Lists receiving at least 1.5 percent of the valid ballots receive Knesset seats in proportion to their share of the vote.
The list headed by Labor leader Ehud Barak, One Israel, includes former Likud Foreign Minister David Levy and his Gesher faction, which is supported largely by Moroccan and other Middle Eastern Jews, and the dovish Jewish orthodox party, Meimad.
www.merip.org /mero/mero041699.html   (1551 words)

  
 Maghreb Mirror: Algeria’s Tarnished Revolution
Algeria's independence was not granted by the French but won by the Algerians, and paid for in blood and fire.
Presidents and prime ministers have since been appointed and dismissed, but actual change remains elusive and the military continues to be the real power in the country.
Algeria's new president, Liamine Zeroual, has expressed a preference for dialogue rather than the failed "eradication strategy" of his predecessors, while FIS leaders also have said they are prepared to talk with the regime.
www.washington-report.org /backissues/0694/9406030.html   (1675 words)

  
 Algeria - Gurupedia
Algeria was brought into the Ottoman Empire by the "Barbarossa" brothers Aruj and Khair ad Din, who made its coast a base for the corsairs; their privateering peaked in Algiers in the 1600's, after which the center of activity moved to Tripoli in Libya.
Algeria has the fifth-largest reserves of natural gas in the world and is the second largest gas exporter; it ranks 14th in oil reserves.
Algeria's finances in 2000 and 2001 benefited from the temporary spike in oil prices and the government's tight fiscal policy, leading to a large increase in the trade surplus, record highs in foreign exchange reserves, and reduction in foreign debt.
www.gurupedia.com /a/al/algeria.htm   (929 words)

  
 PM's Press Conference - 26 July 2005
Prime Minister there is big public unease about the idea of MPs taking 80 days holiday at this time of crisis.
Prime Minister, you and Mayor Ken Livingstone and lots of people keep urging Londoners to carry on with their daily lives, almost as if nothing has happened.
Prime Minister, you talk of needing to deal with the extremism which breeds extremism, and you are talking a great deal today about 9/11.
www.number-10.gov.uk /output/Page7999.asp   (8676 words)

  
 Algeria (07/06)
Algeria has the seventh-largest reserves of natural gas in the world (2.7% of proven world total) and is the second-largest gas exporter; it ranks 14th for oil reserves.
In 2001, Algeria concluded an Association Agreement with the European Union, which was ratified in 2005 by both Algeria and the EU and took effect in September of that same year.
Algeria has traditionally practiced an activist foreign policy and in the 1960s and 1970s was noted for its support of Third World policies and independence movements.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/8005.htm   (5665 words)

  
 ALGERIA
A new government was formed (from a single list of FLN candidates), with Ahmed Ben Bella, founder of the FLN, as Prime Minister.
In June 1965 the Minister of Defence, Col Houari Boumedienne, deposed Ben Bella in a bloodless coup and took control of the State as President of a Council of the Revolution, which was composed of 26 members, chiefly army officers.
Algeria adopted a penal code in 1966, retaining the death penalty, which was suspended since early 1994.
www.asylumlaw.org /docs/algeria/ind99b_algeria_ca.htm   (17558 words)

  
 The Prime Ministers Nobody Knows   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Arab prime ministers are usually entrusted with the messy problems (implementing economic austerity measures in Egypt, fighting Islamist vigilantes in Algeria) from which the kings and presidents-for-life prefer to stay aloof.
No Arab prime minister has the job because of his constitutional prerogative as leader of the largest party in parliament; rather, all are appointed.
No Arab prime minister actually supervises his country's army or intelligence services or determines the country's foreign policy; all this is the province of the supreme leader.
weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/340yjxnr.asp   (683 words)

  
 Algeria Biography,info
Algeria's social fabric was stretched to breaking point during this period: literacy plummeted[1], while land confiscation uprooted much of the population.
Algeria’s financial and economic indicators improved during the mid-1990s, in part because of policy reforms supported by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and debt rescheduling from the Paris Club.
Algeria's largest and official language, Arabic, is spoken natively in dialectal form ("Darja") by some 80% of the population, and, as in the entire Arab world, used in the Modern Standard Arabic variant in the media and on official occasions.
www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Algeria   (2855 words)

  
 PEHI - Project for the Exposure of Hidden Institutions - Le Cercle membership list
When the new Prime Minister Tony Blair proposed the removal of the hereditary element in the House of Lords, Lord Cranborne negotiated a pact with the government to retain a small number (later set at ninety-two) of hereditary peers for the interim period.
After a period as Minister for Water and Planning in 1988/89, in which time he was responsible for implementing water privatization in England and Wales, Howard was promoted to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Employment in January 1990 when Norman Fowler resigned "to spend more time with his family".
Dr Mahathir Mohamad, prime minister of Malaysia, accused Soros of spearheading the manipulation that led to the 1997 East Asian financial crisis.
home.planet.nl /~reijd050/organisations/Le_Cercle_membership_list.htm   (18113 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | How democratic is the Middle East?
Every third candidate on the list had to be a woman to ensure that at least 25% of the seats went to women.
The post of prime minister is customarily given to a member of the Sunni Muslim community, while the country's president is Christian and the speaker of parliament is a Shia Muslim.
A hereditary monarch, a prime minister and a Council of Ministers appointed by the king, form the kingdom's executive branch.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/3784765.stm   (2560 words)

  
 The Arabist » Algeria
Currently Algeria is one of America’s and Europe’s allies in the “war on terror” together with Bin 3ali of Tunisia and Mubarak of Egypt.
Algeria’s national TV channel has decided to take Star Academy, the Lebanese remake of France’s show of the same name and the equivalent to American Idol, off the air.
Though witheringly critical of Algeria’s Islamists, and of its business and political elites (the ‘political-financial mafia’), Khadra is notably indulgent of the army, which runs the country along with the Sécurité Militaire, the secret police, the regime’s ’spinal cord’.
arabist.net /archives/category/algeria   (6039 words)

  
 The Washington Times - Algeria
On November 8 1942 the allies landed in Algeria and the population breathed a sigh of relief, seeing a possible path towards self-determination from the arrival of the American and British forces.
Using a single list of FLN candidates a national assembly was elected and Algeria was declared a republic.
Boumedienne’s death in December 1978 led to the election of Col. Ben Djedid Chadli, under whom the office of prime minister was instituted and the membership of the National People’s Assembly was increased to 295.
www.internationalspecialreports.com /archives/99/algeria/3.html   (3501 words)

  
 El Para, the Maghreb’s Bin Laden, by Salima Mellah and Jean-Baptiste Rivoire
The prime minister, Edouard Balladur, finally authorised Pasqua to launch Operation Chrysanthemum, the largest round-up of the Algerian opposition in France since 17 October 1961.
A prime example is the Eizenstat plan to establish a US-Middle East free-trade area in opposition to the Euro-Mediterranean free-trade area planned for 2010: a free-trade agreement has already been concluded with Morocco.
President Jacques Chirac’s visit in 2003, culminating in the Algiers Declaration of 2 March (25), was intended to lead to a treaty of friendship in 2005 and the establishment of an exceptional partnership in economic, cultural, scientific and military matters.
mondediplo.com /2005/02/04algeria   (3196 words)

  
 The Prime Ministers Nobody Knows
Arab prime ministers are usually entrusted with the messy problems (implementing economic austerity measures in Egypt, fighting Islamist vigilantes in Algeria) from which the kings and presidents-for-life prefer to stay aloof.
No Arab prime minister has the job because of his constitutional prerogative as leader of the largest party in parliament; rather, all are appointed.
No Arab prime minister actually supervises his country's army or intelligence services or determines the country's foreign policy; all this is the province of the supreme leader.
www.weeklystandard.com /content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/340yjxnr.asp   (683 words)

  
 Israel to Release 500 Palestinians
Also, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered law enforcement agencies to crack down on Jewish extremists opposed to the planned Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip after a series of threats and attacks on government ministers.
At yesterday’s Israeli Cabinet meeting, ministers said the charged climate is reminiscent of the period before the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and one Cabinet member reportedly warned that Sharon himself could become a target.
Netanyahu, a former prime minister, was targeted just days after Education Minister Limor Livnat was whisked away from an event where she was verbally attacked by hard-line Jews.
www.arabnews.com /?page=4§ion=0&article=58978&d=14&m=2&y=2005&pix=world.jpg&category=World   (618 words)

  
 Countries Ab-Am   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Prime ministers 25 Oct 1927 - Jan 1929 Sardar Shir Ahmad (b.
1960) Chairmen of the Council of Ministers 1 Jan 1946 - 20 Jul 1954 Enver Hoxha (s.a.) 20 Jul 1954 - 18 Dec 1981 Mehmet Shehu (b.
1918) (head of state as prime minister to 20 Sep 1963) 19 Jun 1965 - 27 Dec 1978 Houari Boumedienne (b.
www.rulers.org /rula1.html   (4043 words)

  
 Prime Time - Zawya.com | Middle East Business News
With 500,000 members from around the world and an impressive advertising clientele list, the two young entrepreneurs are now in talks with investors to help them expand regionally.
In Jordan, it recently added Jordan Telecom to its list of clients (taking the contract away from a French company), thus becoming the provider of choice for all telecom operators in the country.
The youngest of the 10 companies profiled in "Prime Time", Quirkat is positioning itself as a regional publisher and developer of video games.
www.zawya.com /story.cfm/sidZAWYA20060104055022   (3859 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Opinions
The Prime Minister will have to personally monitor the progress of various Central projects — particularly the upgradation of Amritsar and Chandigarh airports and the new one near Ludhiana — as the country is notorious for systemic bottlenecks.
In the first place, it will, in the Prime Minister’s words, give a quantum jump to India’s plans for nuclear electricity generation in the short term, and in the long term pave the way for nuclear power to fill the gap in India’s vast electricity needs.
Pt Nehru was Prime Minister of India, when he was your age, squared the son.
www.tribuneindia.com /2006/20060327/edit.htm   (5413 words)

  
 Informed Comment: 10/01/2003 - 10/31/2003
Pakistan's current prime minister is a big landlord from Baluchistan who once called on the army to suppress his peasants, in Zia's time.
The Thai prime minister said Wednesday that the 447 Thai troops at Karbala would be pulled out of the country if they appeared to be in danger.
UPI reported, "Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra told the panel that while Thai soldiers were safe, he would not allow them to risk "mortal danger."" I'd say that the coalition of the willing is pretty shaky if troops are only being supplied on the condition that their safety be guaranteed.
www.juancole.com /2003_10_01_juancole_archive.html   (12336 words)

  
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Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani said the kidnap was not a sectarian attack since both Sunni and Shi'ite Arabs were among those kidnapped and among those released.
Defence Minister Abdel Qader Jassim said the security forces were hunting the kidnappers: "We are in a state of war and in war all measures are permissible," he said.
Baghdad was locked down in curfew on Friday and the government appealed for calm after car bombs in a Shi'ite stronghold killed 160 in the bloodiest single attack of the war, pushing Iraq closer to the abyss of anarchy.
www.alertnet.org /thenews/newsdesk/L20643485.htm   (633 words)

  
 The Sun Never Set on the British Empire
The list of Princely States in India is incomplete but is certainly enough to convey the complexity of the place under British rule.
In 2004 Prime Minister Howard has been reelected, a result of some international interest, since he had supported the American war in Iraq, attracting the attention of Islâmist terrorists, who killed many Australians in a bombing on Bali.
As in Algeria and elsewhere, this is a situation where an unpopular military government may be a better force against Islamism and Terrorism than a more democratic and popular government.
www.friesian.com /british.htm   (7968 words)

  
 Pravda.RU Arafat Sends to Prime Minister Ultimatum with Candidates for Security Ministers
The Prime Minister should approve one of the three proposed appointees or "bang the door behind him, displaying his character," as he had promised.
The minister said that after obtaining a Facilitated Transit Document (FTD), passengers' details will be sent electronically to the Lithuanian Embassy in Moscow and consulates in other cities.
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jordan Jawad al-Awani who is living in the UAE stated to local TV that if Saddam Hussein is alive he is most likely to be staying in Libya, or is being hided by the Islamists in Sudan, or crossed Iran onto the territory of Afghanistan.
newsfromrussia.com /world/2003/04/23   (1874 words)

  
 Concentration Camps List
Hundreds killed], Corrientes [Jorge Zorreguieta, Minister of Agriculture during Videla regime, daughter Maxima the fiancée of the Royal Dutch Prince.
The British ask Khama to renounce all claim to the chieftainship in return for lifelong payments; he refused, is banished, returning only in 1956, when he abandoned his claims to the chieftainship and became president of newly independent Botswana in 1966.
Ministers of Labour: André Février, René Belin, Charles Pomaret
www.tartanplace.com /tartanhistory/concentrationcamps.html   (12720 words)

  
 World IP Day: Activities 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Speakers at the event will include the Minister of Justice, the President of the European Patent Office, and a panel of representatives of industry, science and the of the German Government.
In addition, the Prime Minister has issued a press release welcoming the celebration of the Day.
The Prime Minister is expected to be the Event’s chief guest, and to perform the opening ceremony.
www.wipo.int /about-ip/en/world_ip/2006/activities.html   (7541 words)

  
 Not updated: Information about Governments, Cabinets, Ministers, etc.
Rulers has lists of heads of state and heads of government (and, in certain cases, de facto leaders which don't occupy either of those formal positions) of all currently existing countries and territories.
Stephen Smith has lists of government members since 1979 (not just Cabinet members) indexed by Department.
General information plus lists of members of the cabinet, principal ministers, who is who, etc.
www.psr.keele.ac.uk /govinfo.htm   (226 words)

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