Abdel Hafiz Ghoga told Al-Jazeera TV that he was resigning in the national interest.
Its leaders had said they would pull their punches in the national interest during Italy's presidency.
He said "it is the wrong thing to do" and "not in the national interest".
Labour demanded public access to the meeting in the national interest, but the call was rejected by the SNP.
He said he could not believe that this is in the national interest.
In a bleak article published in The National Interest last fall, the Harvard economist Benjamin Friedman took a more systemic view.
Once the comment period is over, Clinton will make her decision based on whether the cross-border pipeline is in the national interest.
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It means that the decision is one of proportionality - is a breach of an individual's human rights necessary in the national interest?
His plan to co-operate with Mr Berlusconi to push through reforms in the national interest was humiliatingly swept aside by the prime minister.
The prime minister offered to stand down as prime minister on Saturday, but President Suleiman asked him to stay on in the national interest.
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Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman described "a Budget built on economic failure" and mocked the coalition's stated aim to govern in the national interest.
Far from apologising for the great railway trusts he was instrumental in forming, he believed that such anti-competitive arrangements were in the national interest.
"Let's get on with the huge areas where we do agree and where we think we can work constructively in the national interest, " he said.
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Because the proposed pipeline would cross the US border it will require a State Department permit determining the project to be in the national interest.
Last September the then Education Secretary Charles Clarke said he wanted a "national debate" on whether certain key subjects should be protected in the national interest.
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The panel also says coastal planners have to make a better case to the nation that it's in the national interest to spend billions on Louisiana wetlands.
We believe, on the contrary, that strong American action against Saddam is overwhelmingly in the national interest, that it must be supported, and that it must succeed.
He said "at best" he would like to see the budget cut, and "at worst" frozen, but it was in the national interest to get a deal.
The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) allow the president to ban foreign sales of military products and services if he deems it in the national interest.
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Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg -- whose Liberal Democrat party is in coalition with Cameron's Conservatives -- told PA a referendum was not in the national interest.
Mr Cameron told BBC Radio 4's Today programme his task now was to deliver a "sense of mission" that the government was focused on issues "squarely in the national interest".
But the Argentine government says it will not back down in its decision to nationalise YPF, which it says is a lawful action taken in the national interest.
"At this conference we should take a decision in the national interest, a decision about strengthening our strategic partnership with India in this the Asian century, " Ms Gillard said.
The details are under review: foreigners may be allowed to buy a bit more without restriction, and still more if the government thinks it is in the national interest.
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Acting in the national interest, Mr. Bush gave Mr. Reich a recess appointment on Jan. 11, allowing him to serve without Senate confirmation until the end of this year.
And he strongly endorsed Mr Clegg as the right man to fight for the party's principles in government but also to govern in the national interest in tough times.
Mr Cameron has acknowledged "profound areas of disagreement" between the two parties, but told the Sunday Times they must work together in the national interest over the next few years.
Party leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg told UK media that creating years of uncertainty over Britain's place in Europe was not in the national interest at this time.
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Any backtracking now could fatally undermine his position and would probably revive talk of a new election or of a grand coalition in the national interest between the two main parties.
"Anybody who watched the World Cup and saw the effect it had on the country can't convince me that (granting Kalou citizenship) would not have been in the national interest, " Cruyff said.
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