Sentences with phrase «official observer state»

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Among the issues Canada will need to address as chair, one stands out the most: deciding whether non-Arctic states should be admitted into the Council as official observers.

Observers around New York state and beyond will be watching prosecutors try to convict a top state official of extorting money — or «ziti» as it was referred to in emails — from company executives with business before the state.

Over 400 international election observers — including officials from the United States and the European Union — were deployed across the country to monitor voting, the tallying process and part of the post-election period.

[183] Elected officials and observers opined that Scozzafava's showing in the congressional race affected the New York State Senate's December 2, 2009 vote against same - sex marriage legislation.

With the most pessimistic observers predicting the sea rising by a few feet by the end of the century, state officials and environmentalists are worried that some sensitive habitats and islands lining the region could be lost entirely, exposing the city and state to the full brunt of strong storms.

One longtime observer of state transportation issues and a former Department of Administration official, George Mitchell, said he is alarmed at DOT's current trajectory.

At least the United States and Australia sent official observers.

«While I won't be president at the time of your meeting and while the United States has only one president at a time, I've asked members of Congress who are attending the conference as observers to report back to me on what they learn there,» Obama said in a taped message this morning to attendees gathered for the Schwarzenegger event at the Beverly Hilton Hotel (also posted on YouTube and the official transition Web site).