Sentences with phrase «as general secretary»

They also had plans to kill Mubarak and Butros Butros Ghali, the Egyptian who served as general secretary of the United Nations.

Akufo Addo entered mainstream politics serving as the General Secretary of the People's Movement for Freedom and Justice (PMFJ) that sought to champion the freedom and rights of Ghanaians.

After nine years as General Secretary of the National Council for Civil Liberties, she became press secretary to Neil Kinnock, whom she assisted in the modernisation of the Labour Party.

He said the party constitution provides for constituency general secretaries to get monthly allowances and would ensure they are all paid when voted for as general secretary in June.

Last month, Peter Watt resigned as general secretary after admitting he had failed to properly report Mr Abrahams as the true source of more than # 650,000 in donations, which had been channelled through intermediaries.

Courtney takes over from Christine Blower, who served as the general secretary for seven years before stepping down in May 2016.

«Consistent with my own and the party's commitment to the highest standards in public life, it is with great sadness I have decided to resign my position as general secretary with immediate effect.»

Five years later, Xi took office as the general secretary of the Communist Party.

It was elected anew at the 19th Party Congress in October 2017, which also ushered in Xi's second five - year term as general secretary of the Communist Party, the supreme leadership role in China.

Gerard Coyne said: «Len McCluskey has spent his time as General Secretary of Unite pulling the strings of the Labour Leadership.

They also asked the party to allow Mr. Kwabena Agyepong to operate as the General Secretary without interference.

They also asked the party to allow Mr. Kwabena Agyepong to operate as the General Secretary without any interference.

Since July, Luca Cannellotto is acting as the General Secretary of the SGDA.

Almost a year to the day since he was unveiled as the NAHT's preferred candidate to replace Russell Hobby as its general secretary, Paul Whiteman is preparing to...

National organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) John Boadi, has promised to pay monthly allowances to all constituency secretaries if voted as the General Secretary in the upcoming national executive election.

At last month's Party Congress in Beijing, Xi Jinping was granted another five years in power as general secretary, and elevated almost to the level of Mao in the Communist pantheon, with his name written into the party constitution.

The bright and personable priest from Merseyside, who as General Secretary ruled the roost at the Bishops» Conference headquarters at Eccleston Square for eight years from the mid-1980s, was seen by many Catholics at the time as a breath of fresh air [Note: for «many Catholics» read «The Tablet»].

Society officers were given such secular titles as general secretary or president, and annual conventions of the denominations were mass meetings, not representative deliberative gatherings.

I experienced that every day as general secretary of the World Council of Churches!»

The NASUWT is pleased to formally announce the re-election of Chris Keates as General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest and the leading union representing teachers in the UK.

Four other officers who were not opposed also retained their positions, they are Mr Frederick Fabor, Vice President, East, Hajiya Sani Vice President North and Mrs Victoria Ibanga as the General Secretary.

Those standing behind the continuing legal challenges against Len McCluskey's 2017 re-election as General Secretary hope to break the union's current alliance with Corbyn.

They are also busily spreading claims that Kwabena Agyepong has yielded to the idea to denounce Paul Afoko in order to be reinstated as General Secretary of the party, «these lies are being churned out to create division, suspicion and mistrust amongst Afoko, Kwabena, Crabbe; Kufuor and Mpiani,» the source stated.

I was part of Labour's negotiating team in the failed Haydn Philips inter-party talks on party funding in 2006 and I was embroiled in a pretty major funding scandal that lead to my resignation as general secretary and another police investigation.

Instead, Gareth Thomas serves as Chair of the National Executive Committee, Claire McCarthy as General Secretary, and Gavin Shuker as Chair of the Co-operative Party Group of Parliamentarians.

«Deposing Len as general secretary would give us a chance of winning the next election,» said the insider.

Others are Isiaka Olagunju as the General Secretary, Leo Ohagba, Cecilia Ugbuji, Aisha Abdullahi, and Adesina Adegbite, emerged First Assistant Secretary, Second Assistant Secretary, Treasurer, and Welfare Secretary respectively.

These he observed however are missing in Mr Koku Anyidoho who earlier this week announced his decision to contest as General Secretary of the party.

However, Mr. Owusu Afriyie indicated that a party in opposition like the NPP needs his kind of leadership as a general secretary because he has lived up to expectation and will continue to deliver if maintained.

He recalled visiting the region on numerous occasions as General Secretary, and saw very little rubbish by the road side, noting that this positive trait must be investigated and emulated.

Back in 1999, the party's London paymasters arbitrarily and controversially removed Rowley from his post as general secretary.

Why would persons such as the General Secretary of the NDC and a Minister of State engage in the deliberate fabrication and peddling of such a falsehood?

To accentuate the positive; Ed Miliband has asked Peter Hain to oversee Labour's future policy review and top down, command and control party structure; Ray Collins, whose tenure as General Secretary has coincided with some appalling abuses of party democracy, is off to the House of Lords, and Ed Miliband has returned sharp, and fresh to give David Cameron a good needling in the Commons.

Speculation that Mr McNicol had accepted a peerage from the Labour leader began as soon as he quit as general secretary in February.

It is when he comes to the office and he gets access to his office as General Secretary then he is allowed to play his role.

Senior Unite official Gerard Coyne will challenge Mr McCluskey for the # 140,000 a year job as general secretary of the union which has 1.4 m members.

Derek McNally is the director of the University of London Observatory at Mill Hill Park, London, and recently retired as general secretary of the International Astronomical Union.

In 1982, Yuri V. Andropov (ahn - DROH» - pawf) was elected to succeed the late Leonid I. Brezhnev as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee.

After 15 years, and following its transformation from a medium - sized upper secondary to a large secondary for pupils aged 11 upwards, the 54 - year - old soon will begin a new life as the general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL).

But, conference, I have to say that this speech, today, is, I think, the most important that I have made in my long career as general secretary of ATL.

The board appointed as general secretary Sabine Breitwieser, artistic and managing director of the Generali Foundation, Vienna, and as treasurer Hendrik Driessen, director of the De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg.

Ruah Swennerfelt is an activist, homesteader, blogger, and author working on environmental issues as General Secretary of Quaker Earthcare Witness and on the boards of Vermont Interfaith Power and Light and Transition Town Charlotte, Vermont.

Ashok Gehlot's appointment as general secretary (organisation) is a double - edged sword.

Meanwhile, Special Assistant to Kwabena Agyei Agyapong, Mr Mujeeb Rahman has denied media reports that his boss has given condition for his return to the position as General Secretary of the party.

McCluskey's current five - year term as general secretary was due to end in 2018, but he resigned last week so he could run for re-election next year instead.

Before becoming a Member of Parliament Jessica worked for two local MP's (Llew Smith in Blaenau Gwent and Huw Edwards in Monmouth) and served as General Secretary for the Welsh Labour Party.