Instead, it is up to the parties in the Assembly to propose new candidates for first secretary.
Welsh First Secretary Rhodri Morgan warned that last weekend's panic buying of fuel could be repeated this weekend with food.
Under him, Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the treasury, created the economy of the U.S. A single currency was established.
And Mr Jospin was for years first secretary of the Socialist Party, and later a minister, under the dubious President Mitterrand.
Alireza Miryousefi, first secretary at Iran's mission to the United Nations, said his office didn't have information about Mr. Abu Ghaith's case.
Under Gordon Brown, first Harriet Harman, the leader of the Commons, and now Lord Mandelson, the formidable First Secretary, have filled in.
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Several of the buildings being picketed by the strikers house the offices of prominent local Democrats, including Warren Christopher, Bill Clinton's first secretary of state.
"You could easily hide 10 million people in Siberia, it is so vast, " says Jeffrey A. Van Dreal, first secretary at the U.S. embassy in Moscow.
As many of you know, Secretary Clinton became the first Secretary of State since Dean Rusk, in 1961, to go to Asia on an inaugural trip.
First Secretary Rhodri Morgan said he respected the decision of cabinet member Tom Middlehurst to quit his post in a protest over a deal with the Liberal Democrats.
To become first secretary, a candidate simply needs more votes than his rivals, not an overall majority of the assembly, so Mr Michael is almost certain to be re-elected.
But Mr Morgan said that he "drew a different conclusion" on the pact, which will mean Assembly Lib Dem leader Mike German joining the cabinet as deputy first secretary.
Now that Mr Dewar has seen off Robin Cook, the foreign secretary, he has no rival for the job of first secretary (ie, Scottish prime minister) of the new administration.
Of course, Hillary wasn't the first secretary of state to advocate for human rights or use the post to raise awareness of abuses or negotiate humanitarian relief or pressure oppressors.
In 1987 Mikhail Gorbachev, Brezhnev's successor as Soviet leader, decided that Mr Aliyev was not sympathetic enough to his reforms and sacked him as first secretary of Azerbaijan's Communist Party.
There was a similar situation in Wales, where Alun Michael received the support of block votes at the expense of his rival, Rhodri Morgan, who eventually replaced him as First Secretary.
On that day, Mr Michael, in his capacity as secretary of state for Wales, will hand over his powers to himself in his capacity as first secretary of the Welsh Assembly.
He turned down a request from President George W. Bush to serve as the first secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, which was created in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks.
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The MP urged Labour to heed the lesson of Wales, where Alun Michael was installed as First Secretary of the Welsh Assembly against the wishes of grassroots members - and was subsequently forced to resign.
His original title was deputy prime minister and first secretary of state for environment, transport and the regions - "the only minister with a job title bigger than his vocabulary", according to Sir Norman Fowler.
The prime minister has said he will meet Scottish First Secretary Alex Salmond next week to try to reach a deal on a referendum on Scottish independence, to be held before the end of 2014.
And he certainly isn't the first secretary of state for Wales to do so - Labour's Paul Murphy faced flak for taking a similar journey (albeit in a more humble Vauxhall Vectra) more than a decade ago.
Ron Davies, Mr Michael's predecessor as secretary of state for Wales, had been openly campaigning to become first secretary of a devolved Wales in the hope that Mr Michael would fail to win a seat in the Assembly.
Worst of all, if his links with the Trotskyites, begun in the 1960s, really did last until 1987, he may have been an extremist mole within the Socialist Party, of which he was first secretary from 1981 to 1988.
Our nation's commitment to pursue economic policies that promote confidence and stability dates back to the very first secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, who first made it clear that when our government gives its word we mean it.
The business secretary, who was last week given the additional title of first secretary of state, said he would not "lose any sleep" over the threat posed by those Labour MPs who opposed Mr Brown's leadership of the party.
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