In a separate development, Arab League foreign ministers invited the Syrian main opposition to take the country's seat at the league.
Russia has criticised the Arab League's decision to allow Syria's main opposition coalition to take the country's official seat at its summit.
Why doesn't a single Arab or Muslim country have a permanent seat?
Nick Lampson, the Democratic challenger in November, he's the best funded of any Democrat running for any congressional seat in the country.
That gives the party 129 seats in the country's 300-seat parliament, forcing it to seek other coalition members from the fragmented field to form a majority.
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Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, the democracy advocate who had been under house arrest for nearly two decades, recently won a seat in the country's legislature.
Others believe the violence could cement a crucial role for the military in political affairs and stability even as the generals have taken a back seat in the country's reforms.
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Political analysts have said that Mr. Bo may be allowed to retain his seat on the country's Politburo and avoid formal corruption or other charges if he agrees to cooperate with authorities and doesn't challenge his removal.
But if they should ever find themselves asked to take sides in a war between America and China, almost every Asian country would try to find a seat on the sidelines.
The average wealth and education of voters in the Defence area meant that NA-250 was the place where PTI, which appeals to middle-class and upper-middle-class voters fed up with traditional patronage politics, stood its best chance of winning a seat in Karachi, the country's economic capital.
Salum Khalfani Bar'wani won a seat in the southern part of the country last week.
But no country is likely to give up its right to a seat as the council grows.
When you don't know where you'll be in a country with unfamiliar customs and language, the novelty of seat-of-the-pants travel can wear thin.
Of course, some would argue that this 120-seat restaurant is the least desirable place in the country to dine.
But reports of Mubarak's failing health have taken a back seat to the political and constitutional turmoil in the country.
Most of Seat's sales are in Spain, a country that saw car sales rise 10.8% despite the torpid state of its economy.
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This seat is one of the most marginal in the country - and the question of finding school places sparked a political row.
When his gleaming Royal Brunei Air plane taxied to a red-carpet welcome at Manila's airport, Philippine officials saw Bolkiah, who also heads his country's defense forces, at the pilot's seat.
In November 2000 this seat was identified as the second poorest area of the country and the one suffering the worst ill health.
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These seats will be given to entities that didn't gain enough votes in a province to win a seat but took a large number of votes across the country.
Mr Dunne suggested the new seat would be "one of the very largest in the country", while Mr Wiggin described the constituency as "absolutely enormous".
In what country did activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi win a seat in parliament?
If Japan really wants that Security Council seat, moreover, it cannot afford to spoil relations with a country that already wields a veto.
They joined for the wrong reasons - a determination to have a seat at the top table rather than a careful analysis of the country's economic interests.
President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in India for two days of talks, making him the fifth and final leader from a nation with a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council to visit the South Asian country in 2010.
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The governor's fondest idea was allegedly to trade the Senate seat for a 501(c)4 organization that he believed the country's best-known billionaires would graciously fund and that he would get to lead.
They don't see how you can become the kind of country that produces the Googles and Facebooks of tomorrow and puts the consumer in the driving seat without also becoming a more open and democratic society.
If the country can show other starving and war-ravaged nations how to escape from their predicament, its seat at the diplomatic top table will be richly deserved.
The 210- to 290-seat planes are typically used for high-capacity flights, affecting many passengers on cross-country or cross-global flights, some of which were booked months in advance.
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