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".
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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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.
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.
Some government ministers are already suggesting that state funding of political parties is the answer.
It brought together Heads of State and Government, Ministers, International Organizations and the private sector from all over the world.
That is why the CBD has programmes of work on all of these issues, and why our 2011-2020 strategic plan was negotiated and adopted with the participation of stakeholders at every level: youth, indigenous leaders, city mayors, development agencies, the climate change community, parliamentarians, business leaders, environment ministers and heads of state.
"I have been in discussion with Labour ministers... and I have already raised the issue with the secretary of state, " he said.
The portly Mr Haniyeh is encroaching on Mr Meshal's turf, touring the region with a posse of ministers from Gaza, to be hosted by heads of state.
Ministers will meet Friday to finalize plans that will then be presented to the heads of state Saturday in Ivory Coast, he said.
Shadow environment secretary Mary Creagh said she was disappointed by the secretary of state's "party political comments" and claimed that Labour ministers "behaved admirably" after floods in 2009.
Anoth-er, Muhammad Muham-mad Taib, will be challenged by a field of state chief ministers and cabinet members. (Abdullah is the third incumbent.) And Razaleigh cannot be written off.
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