Sentences with phrase «heads of state»

In summary, the withdrawal process starts with a statement from the Prime Minister to the European Council (the collection of EU heads of state and government).

In the past, Africa's deposed heads of state could count on a comfortable exile in a friendly country, secure in the knowledge that they had immunity from prosecution.

Accepting the automatic appointment of the European Commission President through the European Parliament would in fact limit the prerogatives of the heads of state and government, preventing them from appointing the least charismatic candidate for the EU's top job.

At noon, he and First Lady Melania Trump greet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mrs. Netanyahu of Israel, and then the two heads of state will meet, sans wives.

Thirdly, an elected President of the EU executive would be responsible in front of the voters and not in front of the heads of state and government, hence reducing their influence further.

In the so - called Istanbul Summit Communiqué issued by the Heads of State, we have the following paragraph:

It's possible that government officials (possibly including heads of state) could be prosecuted under their own countries» laws or extradited to other countries.

Expectations were lower, far fewer heads of state were present (around 10 compared to 120 at Copenhagen), and editors and news consumers alike are suffering from climate fatigue.

It is an open secret today that many of judges and heads of our state institutions are being blackmailed to do the bidding of your government and the Npp.

President John Dramani Mahama has arrived in the capital city of The Gambia, Banjul with other colleague Heads of State from the sub-region, to help mediate post-election issues in that country.

The FCO will welcome over 100 heads of government and heads of state from across the world during the Games.

At the end of his visit to Kenya on Friday, President Buhari would travel to Addis Ababa for the 26th Summit of African Union Heads of State and Government.

A central aspect of this accountability framework is the principle of the «responsibility to protect» — endorsed by heads of state and government at the 60th anniversary summit of the UN in 2005.

Since then, individual soldiers, politicians, and heads of state (including Charles Taylor of Liberia and Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia) have been tried and convicted by the Court.

If the European Council, after consulting the European Parliament and the Commission, adopts by a simple majority a decision in favour of examining the proposed amendments, the President of the European Council shall convene a Convention composed of representatives of the national Parliaments, of the Heads of State or Government of the Member States, of the European Parliament and of the Commission.

Comments: President John Dramani Mahama has arrived in Kigali, Rwanda, for the 27th Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government.

The US president hosted selected African heads of state including Buhari on Wednesday on the sideline of the United Nations General Assembly.

The move to launch the African passport was reached during the Summit in January this year, with the AU deciding that the passport would be launched in Kigali, starting with Heads of State and Government, with Foreign Ministers, the leadership of the Representatives of the AU Executive Councils and Organs.

You mentioned Rwanda earlier, recently it was reported that during the AU meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, Heads of State had approved the use of an African passport.

«Although the ECOWAS Commission has anchored its pursuit of the new impetus to monetary integration on «the information presented to the Heads of State which were the basis for their recommendations», we are concerned that we have not properly articulated and analyzed a comprehensive picture of the state of preparedness of individual countries for monetary integration in ECOWAS by 2020.

Dlamini - Zuma urged Heads of State to create conditions for member states to issue the passport to their citizens, «within their national policies, as and when they are ready.»

President of the 70th Session of the UN General Assembly Secretary General of the United Nations Your Excellences, Heads of State and Government Delegates to the Assembly Ladies and gentlemen

The President told the Heads of State that the conditions that pushed Nigeria into withdrawing from the process in the past had not changed.

President John Dramani Mahama has arrived in Kigali, Rwanda, for the 27th Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government.

I had to produce 10 embroidered scarves for the wives of the Heads of State attending including Hilary Clinton and Mme Chirac.

«I mean, in this day and age, where you've got women that are like the leaders of certain industries and women that are heads of state and not to be able to join a golf course?

There are also plenty of heads of state attending the match, with Russian president Vladimir Putin joining his counterparts from Gabon and Antigua & Barbuda to keep Brazilian head honcho Dilma Roussef company.

Creating coveted custom - made gentlemen's attire for all occasions, the Professional Clothiers of Astor & Black serve high - profile celebrities, heads of state, professional athletes and style leaders throughout the world.

Built in 1919 by Frederick William Vanderbilt, the Condado Vanderbilt's lavishness attracted royalty, heads of state, Hollywood stars and industry icons to the hotel's dramatic perch on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean for almost half a century.

Champions will inspire and mobilize heads of state, ministers, and corporate executives from around the world to take action to reduce food loss and waste and help achieve SDG Target 12.3.

Through its conclusions and recommendations the Forum will contribute to the debate and outcome of the World Summit on Food Security scheduled at FAO headquarters on November 16 - 18, to be attended by Heads of State and Government from FAO's 192 Members.

European heads of state have made significant changes to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform package agreed last month (see DII 64 (3) 5).

Organized as the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), the summit will gather world heads of state who are expected to propose strategies for stemming the riptide of environmental degradation and fostering sustainable development.

When the Club of Rome met thirty heads of state some years ago, the then Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Trudeau, said that most of the heads of state present agreed with the call of the Club of Rome for a new approach to the interrelations between economics, ecology and politics.

While a dignified Nelson Mandela addressed the heads of state, many viewers wondered about the man dressed in leopard skins, standing directly behind him with a little flag stuck quaintly in his headgear.

«Violating a place of worship, killing priests and worshippers is not only vile, evil, and satanic,» said Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria's current president and a Muslim (the nation alternates between Muslim and Christian heads of state).

He writes about the sixteen days he spent sailing the Pacific Ocean with five buddies and a crate of canned meat, the time he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state, his stubbornness in getting into law school by sitting on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll, his «office» at Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, the flowers he sent to the elderly woman who nearly killed him running a stop sign, the work he's done to free Ugandan children from prison.

On the one hand, we see non-state actors, as well as warlords and heads of state who use relatively unsophisticated means to gain their ends by targeting, terrorizing, and killing noncombatants and, as in the destruction of the World Trade Center towers or the bombing of the Madrid trains, intentionally causing lasting property damage, civilian deaths, and widespread fear.

Realism is unlikely to prevail among heads of state unless it is part of the way that people in the streets and in the pews explain the world to themselves.

Whereas secular accounts of the tradition locate legitimate authority in the heads of state, with some movement toward giving authority to international agencies, the Christian tradition understands legitimate authority more broadly.

We should remember that «Christian» generals and heads of state have routinely thanked God for the deaths of their enemies, and that the persecutors of 1569 undoubtedly thanked God for the capture and death of the «heretic» Dirk Willems.

On an American level, regular conferences take place every time the heads of state sit down to liberalise the market, from Alaska to Tierre del Fuego.

For the first time in history, at the invitation of the United Nations, we gather as Heads of State and Government to recognize the significance of social development and human well - being for all to give to these goals the highest priority both now and into the twenty - first century.

This week, Roberts traveled to Marrakesh, Morocco, alongside more than 250 Muslim religious leaders, heads of state, and scholars, for a groundbreaking summit.

- how you can claim it's unfair to characterize evangelicals as anti-intellectual while following a man who believes conspiracy theories from the National Enquirer, thinks climate change is a hoax, says vaccines cause autism, and displays such breathtaking ignorance regarding the state of the world and foreign policy that no former presidents will endorse him and multiple generals, foreign policy experts, editorial boards, and heads of state have denounced him as dangerously uninformed,

While a dignified Nelson Mandela addressed the heads of state, many viewers wondered about the man dressed in leopard skins, standing directly behind him with a little flag stuck quaintly in his...

Heads of state don't fly around with their vehicles.

If he were president, he would insult most heads of state in the first week and do something crazy like suggest that we invest in our own country rather than wage war.

For example, François Hollande's infidelity to his girlfriend Valérie Trierweiler continued an aboriginal tradition of French heads of state, beginning with the Catholic kings and continuing with rare breaks down to his immediate predecessor.

Although much of the Old Testament does have historically verifiable occurances, the lead characters are heads of state or high priests or the stories are about the nation as a whole.