The position of head of state, the cabinet of ministers, parliament, civil service and judiciary, the usual institutions of a nation state, have been personalised and the benefits shared out among the clan and tribe of the office holders.
On Wednesday, the Indian and Pakistani chief ministers of the divided state of Punjab inaugurated a new road that will link the Indian city of Amritsar to Nankana Sahib in Pakistan.
In her debut speech to the European Parliament since her country took on the rotating presidency of the Council of Ministers, Hungarian State Secretary for European Affairs Eniko Gyori said the agreement could help tackle illegal cross-border trade and improve co-operation on environmental issues.
Health minister Earl Howe said the setting of a mandate for the board by the secretary of state was "one of the key levers that ministers will have to set a national health policy".
The communist government's state council announced Thursday the removal of Jose Ramon Fernandez Alvarez as vice president of the council of ministers, according to state-run Granma.
For now, the likely scenario is a cabinet reshuffle, a replacement of some state chief ministers, and the reaffirmation of a future transition to Anwar and Najib.
In his speech then, Raul Castro said the limit of two consecutive five-year terms would apply to "the current president of the Council of State and his ministers" - a reference to himself.
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While Internet safety advocates and tech professionals were meeting at the FOSI and Qitcom events in one part of the city, eight heads of state from the Arab region, government ministers and Arab tech industry leaders were participating in the Connect Arab Summit to talk about expanding technology opportunities in the region.
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Among the representatives of more than two dozen countries attending were the foreign ministers of Pakistan, Zimbabwe and Iraq, state-run Islamic Republic News Agency said.
The state still has a massive role, with top cabinet ministers all acting as chairmen of the board of big state run companies like oil and gas major Gazprom.
The first is that Mr Kibaki wants to keep too much executive power for the presidency, including the right to appoint ministers, senior civil servants and the heads of state-owned outfits.
Over 120 countries will be represented by some 750 participants at the Conference, including Heads of State, government ministers and experts in the field.
The secretary of state and the first and deputy first ministers declined to be drawn on any specific projects on Monday.
Buried in the "Miscellaneous" provisions of the Act is a far reaching power given to the Secretary of State to intervene should the Assembly or Ministers do anything that might have "a serious adverse impact" on water resources, supply or quality in England.
Mr Singh has inducted half-a-dozen ministers from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, where the Congress has been fast losing ground to a breakaway group led by the son of a former loyalist leader who died in a helicopter crash and the mounting movement for a new Telangana state.
The European Union sovereign debt situation is being addressed by EU finance ministers, heads of state and even the U.S. Treasury secretary this week.
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Dozens of activists were arrested for inciting public opinion or endangering the state, and two reformist ministers were forced out of their jobs.
As well as handing the letter to David Cameron, the group also met with shadow ministers including Hilary Benn, Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, to discuss the effect of cuts on Liverpool.
The attack has also been condemned by Northern Ireland Secretary of State John Reid and the First and Deputy First Ministers David Trimble and Seamus Mallon.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke by telephone Monday with most of the foreign ministers belonging to the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations about the conflict.
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On March 30th Mr Medvedev ordered government ministers to vacate their seats on the boards of state firms.
He confirms Cheryl Gillan's account of her dismissal as secretary of state for Wales, defends the increase in the number of Wales Office ministers and gives a timely boost to Andrew RT Davies's campaign to become leader of the Welsh Conservative Party.
They answer to federal and state interior ministers, raising the risk of political influence.
Conference participants include Heads of State, Ministers, officials of international organizations, other key stakeholders and experts in the field of environmental education.
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Ms Teather told MPs she had felt the Secretary of State Michael Gove had clearly been focused on the schools shake-up, but had allowed ministers "to get on with their jobs" and had regularly gone "in to bat" to support her in pushing forward changes in her area.
The entire population falls into line and members of parliament and ministers of state give themselves up to be locked up in police stations and prisons for months and even years.
Beatrix, held weekly meetings with the prime minister and spoke regularly with high-ranking ministers and secretaries of state.
More than 600 participants from 44 countries are expected for the summit in Salzburg, including 15 heads of state or prime ministers and 40 government ministers.
This is the favoured solution of the establishment's dinosaurs octogenarian newspaper publishers and former prime ministers who think that they should be arranging the affairs of state and who constantly meddle in politics as kingmakers.
Some government ministers are already suggesting that state funding of political parties is the answer.
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