After studying the safety and efficacy of the low-dose pill, the ministry's Central Pharmaceutical Affairs Council agreed in February to approve oral contraceptives.
"It is already possible to observe alarming infringements, for example in Hungary or in Japan, where the new government is massively involving itself in the affairs of the central bank, is emphatically demanding an even more aggressive monetary policy and is threatening an end to central bank autonomy, " Mr Weidmann said in a speech in Frankfurt.
Overcoming mistrust between Afghanistan and Pakistan remains a central issue, says BBC World Affairs correspondent Mike Wooldridge.
The central government interfered in local and municipal affairs and weakened the power of opposition leaders by using mostly illegal means.
The body oversaw, for instance, the setting up of new municipalities which give Serbs in south and central Kosovo some control over their own affairs.
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In adjudicating cases, where the courts need to interpret a provision concerning affairs which are the responsibility of the central government or the relationship between the central authorities and the SAR, the CFA shall, before giving a final judgment, seek an interpretation of that provision from the Standing Committee (SC).
Where it counts at the Politburo Standing Committee, the Central Military Commission, and the Leading Group on Foreign Affairs there is still strong support for the Kim family, despite its potentially destructive antics.
Mr Clerides also made it clear that a future central government would not have the right to intervene in the affairs of either community.
Like them, he was against political and military intervention in European affairs, but not in the Caribbean, in Central or South America, or in the Pacific.
Natalie Dempster, director of government affairs for the WGC in London, said many central banks, those in Asia and other emerging markets in particular, have been rebalancing their reserve portfolios and will continue to do so.
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Henry S. Rowen, assistant defense secretary (international security affairs) and chairman, National Intelligence Council, Central Intelligence Agency. (NOTE: The military officers are all now retired.) The following are excerpts from this study titled, "U.S. Forces on the Golan Heights: An Assessment of Benefits and Costs, " published by the Center for Security Policy.
An economist by training, Mr Padoa-Schioppa has climbed almost to the top of Italy's central bank, managed the European Commission's economics and financial affairs division and chaired a prestigious international committee of bank regulators.
Besides a central government, there are five island governments that deal with the local island affairs.
On the central government level the Minister of Education, Culture, Youth, and Sport Affairs is responsible for education, and is supported by the Department of Education, Culture, and Sport Affairs and the Task Force Antillean Youth.
Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs and, of course, as Ronald Reagan's Director of Central Intelligence.
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Meanwhile, Westminster's Scottish Affairs Select Committee criticised Mr Gould after its chairman, Labour MP for Glasgow Central Mohammed Sarwar, said he had so far failed to agree to answer questions from various MPs.
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In foreign affairs also he took a comparatively pro-western stance, refusing to condemn Nato expansion into Central and Eastern Europe in the way that many Russians did.
Correspondent also works with BBC Two and BBC Four on special world affairs programmes, including the Holidays in the Danger Zone series, most recently focusing on the Stans of Central Asia.
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