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	Turkey - President, Council of Ministers, and Prime Minister
		The president may be impeached for high treason at the recommendation of one-third of the members of the National Assembly and removed from office by the vote of a three-quarters majority.
		The present National Security Council is composed of the prime minister, the chief of the General Staff, the ministers of national defense, interior, and foreign affairs, and the commanders of the branches of the armed forces and the gendarmerie.
		In addition, each minister is responsible for the conduct of affairs under his or her jurisdiction and for the actions of subordinates.
	countrystudies.us /turkey/73.htm (1118 words)

	Iranian Goverment Constitution, English Text
		The President is responsible to the Assembly for the actions of the Council of Ministers.
		The ministers shall continue in office unless they are dismissed, or given a vote of no-confidence by the Assembly as a result of their interpolation, or a motion for a vote of no- confidence against them.
		The assets of the Leader, the President, the deputies to the President, and ministers, as well as those of their spouses and offspring, are to be examined before and after their term of office by the head of the judicial power, in order to ensure they have not increased in a fashion contrary to law.
	www.iranonline.com /iran/iran-info/Government/constitution-9-2.html (738 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga yesterday removed the portfolios of Defence, Interior and Mass Communication from Ministers Tilak Marapana, John Amaratunga and Imthiaz Bakeer Markar.
		A statement from the Presidential Secretariat said the President took this decision as per the powers vested in her under the Constitution of the Republic of Sri Lanka.
		They are: Minister of Defence, Minister of Interior, Minister of Mass Communication." The Secretariat also announced that Tilak Ranaviraja has been appointed as the Secretary to the Ministry of Mass Communication and Cyril Herath as the Secretary to the Ministry of Defence.
	www.dailynews.lk /2003/11/05/new02.html (373 words)

	Presidents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Madison was the smallest of all the presidents.
		When Jackson ran for President in 1828, the issue of adultery was brought up and it is thought that this she grew ill and died on Dec. 22, 1828.
		President Franklin Pierce was Arrested while in office for running over an old woman with his horse, but the case was dropped for insufficient evidence in 1853.
	www.scottinhistory.com /societies/presidents.html (3947 words)

	President, cabinet ministers due in Hamedan Wednesday - Irna
		President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accompanied by members of his cabinet are expected in the western province of Hamedan on Wednesday for an official two-day visit.
		The president and his cabinet ministers are to hold a session in the provincial capital by the same name (Hamedan) to discuss the province's problems and needs on Thursday.
		President Ahmadinejad's visit to Hamedan will be his 15th to various provinces of the country since the start of his initiative of bringing the government closer to the people.
	www.irna.ir /en/news/view/menu-234/0606206010124452.htm (264 words)

	President: Economy Ministers Have To Be Acceptable To The Market -- Sabtu, 19 Agustus 2000
		President Abdurrahman Wahid has determined that the future economy ministers should be acceptable to the market.
		The President's message was quoted at a question and answering session by Ismed Hasan Putro, one of the Islamic elders after Friday prayers at the Baiturrahman Mosque of the Negara Palace in Jakarta.
		Ministers who will not be re-elected will receive words of consolation from the President.
	www.kompas.com /kompas-cetak/0008/19/ENGLISH/pres.htm (1229 words)

	The Epoch Times :: Sri Lanka President Fires 39 Junior Ministers
		Critics say the president is trying to limit the officials' ability to campaign for the party headed by her rival, the country's prime minister.
		He says, to the contrary, that this is the first time a president has removed ministers from power and taken away their official cars prior to an election campaign.
		Kumaratunga precipitated the political crisis in November, when she exercised her constitutional power to seize control of three government ministries including defense, which is considered the key to managing the peace process.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/4-2-11/19706.html (432 words)

	Office of the President of Guyana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This meeting is devoted to Agriculture and the acceleration of the implementation of the Jagdeo Initiative, submitted by President Jagdeo, the Head of State with lead responsibility for Agriculture in the Region, to CARICOM in 2005.
		President Jagdeo said he would be lobbying the Heads of Government to give greater support, both technical and budgetary to the agriculture Ministers.
		President Jagdeo instructed Regional Executive Officer (REO) Jugool Narine to ensure that the roof of the primary school is fixed urgently.
	www.op.gov.gy /stories/060120.html (1397 words)

	Iraq the President and the Council of Ministers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The president is the chief executive authority of the country.
		The vice-presidency appeared to be a largely ceremonial post, and the vice-president seemed to be appointed or dismissed solely at the discretion of the president.
		Of the cabinet members, the president and the minister of defense, the minister of foreign affairs, the minister of interior, and the minister of trade were also members of the powerful RCC.
	www.country-studies.com /iraq/the-president-and-the-council-of-ministers.html (393 words)

	ANTARA News :: President Calls 11 Ministers to Discuss on Rice Import (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		President was accompanied by Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Boediono and me, he said.
		In a response to press questions, the minister said that indeed the DPR has the interpellation and inquiry rights, but the case in Indonesia was unusual in the politics.
		Minister Yusril, who is a founder of the crescent and star party (PBB), said the government should explain clearly on the rice import policy, so there is no need to apply the interpellation and inquiry rights.
	www.antara.co.id /en/seenws/?id=8334 (745 words)

	Sierra Leone: President: Members Of The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Presents Update To President Kabbahl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		President Kabbah congratulated the Ministers on their appointment and assured them that he would personally work with them to ensure their success.
		The President told his new ministers that there were a lot of challenges ahead.He adminished them on the need for transparency and accountability,and especially against graft.He advised them to be cautious in their dealings with the general public,noting that in Sierra Leone,one always wins false friends and true enemies.
		Another challenge the President outlined was that of negative press reports given by some sections of the media which tend to repel well-meaning individuals wanting to render true service to the nation.
	www.statehouse-sl.org /min-health-august13.html (645 words)

	rediff.com Special: Dr Subhash C Kashyap defines the President's role (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The President has the power to grant pardons, reprieves, respites or remissions of punishment or to suspend, remit or commute the sentence of any person in all cases where the punishment has been awarded by a court martial, is for an offence against a Union law or is a sentence of death.
		The President may proclaim a state of Emergency in the whole or part of India if he is satisfied that a grave situation exists whereby the security of India or part of its territory is threatened by war, external aggression, or armed rebellion.
		The council of ministers so constituted is collectively responsible to the House of the People (and not to the President) and, as long as it commands the confidence of the House, is not subject to dismissal by the President.
	www.rediff.com /news/2002/jul/16spec.htm (923 words)

	Government Leaders - President
		President of the Republic of South Africa since 14 June 1999.
		Political Secretary in the Office of the President of the ANC (1978).
		The election to this post meant succeeding the late former President and Chairperson of the ANC, Oliver R Tambo, with whom he had a close working relationship.
	www.info.gov.za /leaders/president/index.htm (724 words)

	Sierra Leone: President: Acting President Meets Government Ministers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Acting President Justice Cowan told the Ministers that since he took the oath of office on Monday night, 13th October, he said he had thought it necessary to have a formal meeting with Ministers who according to him "run the affairs of State".
		He informed the Ministers that he was acting because of a constitutional provision that provides that when both the President and Vice President were not in the country, it was the Speaker of Parliament that should act as President.
		Acting President Cowan drew the attention of Ministers to be alert and said the absence of both the President and Vice President demonstrated that peace and security were now getting well entrenched.
	www.statehouse-sl.org /act-pres-min-october16.html (278 words)

	Guardian \| Setback for Iranian president as nominee ministers rejected
		Iran's new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, suffered his first political setback last night when the conservative-dominated parliament rejected four of his proposed cabinet ministers, including the nominee for the strategically vital oil portfolio.
		The new interior minister, Mostafa Pourmohammadi - who will play a central role in deciding how to tackle political dissent - also came under fire during the nomination process because of his former role as deputy intelligence minister during the 1990s, when Iran's intelligence ministry was implicated in the serial murders of political dissidents.
		Mr Ahmadinejad's foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, is a fierce advocate of Iran's nuclear programme who has criticised the country's negotiators for making concessions in talks with the EU trio of Britain, France and Germany.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5270119-111322,00.html (463 words)

	Zamnet Communication Systems Limited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		President Mwanawasa says he will not hesitate to fire any member of his government who will breach the oath of allegiance to him and the Zambian constitution.
		The president was speaking at state house, Tuesday when he swore-in Vice President, Rupiah Banda, Cabinet ministers and other government officials.
		He warned provincial ministers who are charged with approving contracts for development projects not to engage in any acts of corruption.
	www.zamnet.zm /newsys/news/viewnews.cgi?category=9&id=1160493535 (185 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Sri Lankan president fires 39 officials as crisis deepens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka's president fired 39 ministers and deputy ministers from the caretaker government headed by her rival Wednesday, worsening the island's political crisis.
		Milinda Moragoda, minister of economic affairs and deputy minister of policy development, later announced his intention to resign, saying he didn't think he could carry out his duties.
		Wickremesinghe was elected separately and leads a Cabinet of about 30 remaining ministers, but the president, who has broad executive powers, has the right to dismiss him and his ministers.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040211-0650-srilanka-crisis.html (396 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Sri Lanka's president sacks three ministers, deploys troops in capital in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The president has said the prime minister was too soft in his peace talks with the rebels.
		Troops were sent to the state television and radio stations and to a main power plant after the government announced that it fired the defense and interior ministers – in charge of the military and police, respectively – and the information minister.
		Kumaratunga's office said in a statement that the move to sack the ministers was "taken after careful consideration in order to prevent further deterioration of the security situation in the country." It did not elaborate.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20031104-0547-srilanka.html (796 words)

	William J. Clinton Foundation "Speech by President to Ministers Leadership Conference"
		And Yitzak Rabin, the late Prime Minister of Israel, whom I lived very much and was very close to and, as you know, lost his life because he was working for peace in the Middle East, the same thing we're still struggling with.
		I wanted to be President at a time when I was very happy being the governor of my state, very happy with the life that Hillary and Chelsea and I had in Arkansas, because I wanted to make some specific changes in the direction of the country.
		THE PRESIDENT: Well, first of all, I would say that I believe in what it is you're doing here, because every one of us who has a job that anybody ever held before we did is normally reluctant to admit we don't know everything we should know about how to do it.
	www.clintonfoundation.org /legacy/081000-speech-by-president-to-ministers-leadership-conference.htm (11226 words)

	India's Politics(Federal System, President, Vice President, Council of Ministers, Rajya Sabha, Lok Sabha, State ...
		The Union Executive consists of the President, the Vice-President and Council of Ministers with the Prime Minister at the head to aid and advise the President.
		The President is elected by members of an Electoral College consisting of elected members of both Houses of Parliament and Legislative Assemblies of the states, with suitable weightage given to each vote.
		Prime Minister communicates all decisions of the Council of Ministers relating to administration of affairs of the Union and proposals for legislation to the President.
	www.asianinfo.org /asianinfo/india/politics.htm (1639 words)

	SomaliNet News: Niger: President sacks ministers : SomaliNet > Somali > Somalia and Somalinad
		Niger’s president was not amused by their level of corruption.
		The post of Education minister of Niger was filled by Ousmane Samba Mamadou while the new minister of health in Niger is Mahamane Kabaou.
		The departed ministers from Niger’s cabinet are answerable for embezzlement of European Union donations to Niger’s education sector between 2000 and 2005.
	www.somalinet.com /news/world/English/3078 (187 words)

	afrol News - Liberia President orders ministers to oust corrupt staff
		"President Sirleaf has challenged cabinet ministers and heads of government agencies to weed out corrupt employees or be prepared to face the consequences of their inaction," said presidential spokesman Cyrus Badio, who read out Ms Sirleaf's statement.
		In her campaign for the presidency earlier this year, Ms Sirleaf promised to come down hard on corruption during her six-year presidential term.
		The Steering Committee overseeing the implementation of the GEMAP which is headed by the President and co-chaired by the US Ambassador to Liberia, said earlier this week that the Liberian government has started its first step against corruption by removing 500 so-called ghost names from its payroll.
	www.afrol.com /articles/18996 (641 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / Sri Lanka President Sacks 39 Junior Ministers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sri Lanka's president sacked 39 junior ministers Wednesday, tightening the screws on her rival the prime minister in the run-up to April general elections that will be fought over how to make peace with Tamil Tiger rebels.
		COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's president sacked 39 junior ministers Wednesday, tightening the screws on her rival the prime minister in the run-up to April general elections that will be fought over how to make peace with Tamil Tiger rebels.
		By removing the ministers, the president reduces the access of her rival to government resources.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2004/02/11/sri_lanka_president_sacks_39_junior_ministers?mode=PF (516 words)

	Sri Lanka's President Clamps Down - CBS News
		President Chandrika Kumaratunga further asserted her power across the troubled island nation as her rival Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was scheduled to go ahead with talks in Washington with U.S. President George W. Bush.
		It also gives the president the power to enact laws and gives her extraordinary control over the media, allowing for the tight censorship that was common under earlier states of emergency.
		Kumaratunga sacked the ministers of defense, interior and information — who have been instrumental in the government's peace efforts — and took control of those ministries, saying the steps were need to check a deteriorating security situation.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/05/19/world/main554491.shtml (1275 words)

	afrol News - Malawi President, ex-President move to capital
		During the swearing in of cabinet ministers in Blantyre recently, President Mutharika ordered them to pack their bags and operate from Lilongwe arguing that it made no economic sense for the President and his ministers to operate from Blantyre while government headquarters, parliament and Malawi's development partners were all housed in the capital, Lilongwe.
		Meanwhile, most of the ministers who have their homes in Blantyre are putting up in hotels due to the lack of adequate housing.
		Information Minister Ken Lipenga, who confirmed the development, said the ministers are waiting for houses, which are undergoing maintenance after many of the former cabinet ministers, who lost in the elections, were not included in President Mutharika's starting line-up.
	www.afrol.com /articles/13473 (788 words)

	USATODAY.com - S. Korean president replaces five Cabinet ministers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Those replaced included Unification Minister Lim Dong-won, who was in charge of the so-called "sunshine" policy of trying to engage the communist North.
		Three of the ministers who were replaced were United Liberal Democrats, a small party that broke up a coalition with the ruling party by siding with the opposition in the vote against Lim.
		Kim Dong-tae, a former vice agriculture minister, was named to head the ministry of agriculture and forestry.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2001/09/07/south-korea-cabinet.htm (409 words)

	CNN.com - 39 officials fired in Sri Lanka - Feb. 11, 2004
		Sri Lanka's president sacked 39 ministers and deputy ministers from the interim government headed by her political rival on Wednesday, worsening the country's political crisis.
		She and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe have been locked in a bitter power struggle that threatens to derail the island's efforts to end a 20-year civil war.
		Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was elected separately and leads a Cabinet of about 30 remaining ministers.
	cnn.com /2004/WORLD/asiapcf/02/11/srilanka.ministers.ap/index.html (560 words)

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