But it said that a new state would not be a party to the North Atlantic Treaty, and therefore not a member of the alliance, while the position of the "successor state" would be unaffected.
Portugal, a founding member of the alliance and an Atlantic nation, has always defended transatlantic ties.
One member of the alliance is Professor Lorraine Gamman, director of the Design Against Crime Research Centre at Central St Martins School of Art and Design.
But according to Peter Hunter, a member of the Alliance as well as a specialist in employment law, the onus is on the government to say why seats cannot be shared.
The Royal National Institute for the Blind, a member of the alliance, said patients awaiting treatment at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, for instance, were at high risk of losing their sight.
He is an active member of the Alliance Partnership of the Conference of Western Attorneys General, in which attorneys general across the United States partner with their colleagues in Mexico to strengthen the legal systems of both countries and reduce crime.
Hiatt is a member of the Democracy Alliance, a group of wealthy liberal donors led by Rob McKay, an heir to the Taco Bell fortune.
He also participates as a board member of the Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness, Chicago United, The Lyric Opera of Chicago, The University of Chicago Hospitals and The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.
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Simon ran for mayor of Chiclayo in 1983 as a member of United Left, an alliance of leftist parties in Peru founded in 1980 but did not win the elections.
As a member of the Western alliance, Bulgaria is surrounded by firm U.S. allies.
Only in Tamil Nadu is the ruling party a member of the national alliance.
Russia seems a powerful and reliable member of the new alliance against terrorism.
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While France refuses to extradite anyone to a country with the death penalty, it is a member of the antiterrorism alliance.
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Ecuador, a member of the Bolivarian Alliance, is one of the largest recipients of Chinese investment, particularly in the area of mining and oil.
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But what troubles Downing Street is that Mark Serwotka, who is due to become the union's general secretary and leader in June, cheerfully describes himself as being far left and a member of the Socialist Alliance.
Since 1957 was the year of Sputnik, and since West Germany was a key member of the NATO alliance, this was not a good time to imply that there was no real Soviet threat to Western Europe.
Russia has become a sort of guest member of the NATO alliance under an arrangement that will afford it considerable opportunity to influence that organization's deliberations but, in theory at least, no veto over decisions taken by the other, full- fledged members.
He is a member of the Copenhagen Climate Council, an alliance of businesses and scientists working towards a new global climate treaty for 2009.
Granarolo would then have a near-monopoly in fresh milk in the Italian market, but Giovanni Alemanno, the agriculture minister and a member of the far-right National Alliance, seems inclined to support the creation of a national champion.
"If you are a great neighbor, then you are not going to put a bar in a schoolyard, " said Tom Cayler, a 30-year resident and member of the West Side Neighborhood Alliance.
Today, as an organising member of the Zero Waste International Alliance, his campaign to encourage recycling and waste reduction has led to 117 municipalities across Italy closing incinerators and committing to zero-waste strategies.
The contract between the 12, 000-member Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producer expired Oct. 31.
Dr. Lenny Lesser, a member of the policy committee for the National Physicians Alliance and a family medicine resident at Tufts University, said the recent wave of farmers markets is promising, but hospitals can do more.
Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan (also known as Karuna), a former head of the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP) and now a member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (the main component of the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance government), may also become more prominent, although his main base of support is in the east.
The 26-member alliance also will look for links with the Arab nations of the Middle East to help stabilize the region.
Danny Diaz, a member of Washington political-consulting firm FP1 Strategies, who acts as the Alliance's spokesman, declined to disclose whether the majority of its funding came from large retailers.
He said he is not a member of a political party, but supports the Bristol and District Anti-Cuts Alliance.
Air Berlin, Germany's second largest carrier after Lufthansa, has only been a member of Oneworld since March last year and if it were ever to leave, the alliance wouldn't let it go quietly.
That adds credence to previous speculation that an Alliance member would get the job, even though the party is not one of the big four that together make up the executive.
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