Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour and Presidency Minister Essop Pahad will be in a 50-member South African delegation that flies to Zurich this month for the formal presentation of its bid.
She backed the appointment of relative lightweights for both the EU presidency and the foreign minister's job created by the Lisbon treaty.
Under a constitutional reform agreed last year, some powers are to be transferred from the presidency to a prime minister nominated by parliament.
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As to the secret funds, set up over 50 years ago and totalling FFr394m for this year, they have their place, he thinks: just over half goes to run the secret services, the rest being shared between the presidency and the prime minister's office to boost (in crisp cash) the pay packets of the supposedly overworked and underpaid, from senior ministerial advisers down to secretaries and cooks.
He is a frontrunner for the presidency, along with Prime Minister Raila Odinga, in next week's election.
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Minister of the Presidency Juan Ramon Quintana said proof of improper activities involving the US embassy would be given to President Obama.
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On Thursday, Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane said top-level investigations were under way to establish how the chartered flight landed at the military base.
The man in charge of the Luxembourg presidency will be the prime minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, the youngest of the European summiteers and one of the brightest.
Under a government coalition in the 1990s, Mr Wade even reported directly to President Abdou Diouf as a minister in the presidency from March 1995 to March 1998.
But Minister for the Presidency Frank Tumwebaze defended the donation.
As prime minister of the presidency holding nation, David Cameron has said he wants to focus on combating trade protectionism, cracking down on tax havens and promoting greater government transparency.
Wexler traveled to Israel multiple times in the early months of Obama's presidency, to pressure Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to submit to Obama's demand and embrace the cause of Palestinian statehood.
"I've given to my Chinese colleague this presidency's frank assessment that we don't believe - as things stand - that a decision is likely during our presidency, " Irish Foreign Minister Brian Cowen said at the joint news conference with Mr Li.
"It will be unfortunate if a perception were to develop that the USA's withdrawal from the conference is merely a red herring demonstrating an unwillingness to confront the real issues posed by racism in the U.S. and globally, " Essop Pahad, South African minister of the presidency, said in a statement quoted by Reuters.
Many of you were here when I was honored to become the first President to help celebrate Diwali -- the Festival of Lights. (Applause.) Some of you were here for the first White House celebration of the birth of the founder of Sikhism -- Guru Nanak. (Applause.) Tonight, we gather again, for the first state dinner of my presidency -- with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Mrs.
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The names most often mentioned as possible contenders for the deputy presidency are Najib and former finance minister Tengku Razaleigh Ham-zah.
Mr Nano's plan to build respect for state institutions includes reforming the constitution to strengthen the prime minister and weaken the presidency.
With Denmark currently holding the European Union presidency, the President and Prime Minister will talk about the recent European summit and the latest steps that Europe is taking to address its sovereign debt crisis.
UMNO's three-yearly leadership competition, which decides the party's presidency, and hence who is prime minister.
The Brotherhood could seek a deal where Morsi is made prime minister if Shafik wins the presidency, he said.
Venezuela will hold elections in 30 days and Maduro is assuming the presidency during the interim period, Foreign Minister Elias Jaua told state-run VTV on Tuesday.
It is the Russian chess term for "castling, " and it refers to the September 2011 announcement that Mr. Putin would return to the presidency and make Mr. Medvedev prime minister.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Spanish premier Jose Maria Aznar were present, as were Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt of Belgium, which currently holds the European Union presidency, European Union foreign and security policy chief Javier Solana and Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok.
The former minister during Nestor Kirchner's presidency has always maintained her innocence.
After returning to Chile, Bachelet became a pediatrician and then entered politics, serving as minister of health and as minister of defense before winning the presidency.
Other candidates for the presidency come and go: Luxembourg's prime minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, is a popular one but continues to refuse the job.
"Mr Kostunica enjoys our political support in moving the democratic process in Serbia, but we cannot accept the legal aspect of his presidency, " says Montenegro's deputy Prime Minister, Dragisa Burzan.
Popular anger has been rising over his failure to keep a campaign promise of a new constitution, taking some powers away from the over-mighty presidency and creating a new post of executive prime minister.
The obvious answer is that two years from now, when Mr Jospin, determined to deny the conservative Jacques Chirac a second term, runs for the presidency, Mr Fabius will once again become prime minister.
Effective power ebbed away from the presidency and into the hands of the new prime minister, Yevgeny Primakov a former intelligence chief whose background as a loyal Soviet functionary sent a reassuring message to communists and the military.
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