President Karzai has also signed a decree to allow court cases outside Kabul.

On 1 December 2002, President Karzai signed a decree establishing the Afghan National Army.

The President issued a decree on the same day to establish a caretaker Government, pending the establishment of the Government of National Unity.

In August 2005, President Abbas decreed that legislative elections would be held on 25 January 2006.

The most famous of these was Constantine the Great, the first Christian Emperor, who issued an edict ordering religious tolerance throughout the Empire.

Now one day in 1772, the prince decreed that the musicians' families, the orchestral musicians' families, were no longer welcome in the castle.

In addition, President Abbas issued a presidential decree enforcing the security forces pension bill, which will lead to the retirement of some 2,000 security staff.

In response, by a special decree issued on 2 September, the Council of Ministers stripped Mr. Nkunda of his rank, removed him from the army and decided to prosecute him.

The Georgian Government had signed a decree declaring the country a torture free zone in 2002 and a national plan had been adopted to implement it in 2003 2005.

On 25 May 2005 the Swiss Federal Council adopted an ordinance instituting measures against the Sudan (hereinafter the ordinance , a copy of which is attached).

President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin signed a decree forming the Russian Ministry of Defence on 7 May 1992, establishing the Russian Ground Forces along with the other parts of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

Six years later, while on pilgrimage to Hebron, Baibars promulgated an edict forbidding Christians and Jews from entering the sanctuary, and the climate became less tolerant of Jews and Christians than it had been under the prior Ayyubid rule.

To address concerns within the Government regarding the extent of the operations of non governmental organizations (NGOs), President Karzai signed an executive decree on 15 June excluding NGOs from participating in construction projects and contracts.

Ms. Shin, returning to the issue of punishments meted out at the village level, enquired whether the Government could issue a decree prohibiting such activities, because a clear message emphasizing their inappropriateness was necessary.

However, from 1980, the Ministry of Health published a decree that authorizes hospitals carry out abortions in cases of pregnancy with deficiencies or when the health of the woman is threatened, having to send the authorization to a hospital commission (Bugalho, 1995 16).

On 4 May, the Government issued a decree in this respect concerning three groups of people the guardians de la paix people who were given weapons under the self defence policy and people who own weapons under an official licence.

3. On 22 August 1871, the Provisional President of the United States of Venezuela issued a decree establishing jurisdiction over a territory known as Colón', which was subject to a special regime under the authority of the federal executive branch this territory included a number of islands, including the Los Monjes archipelago.

In response to growing popular demonstrations and protests, President Lucio Gutiérrez, through an executive decree of 15 April 2005, dismissed the Supreme Court which had been appointed illegally on 8 December 2004 and declared a state of emergency in the city of Quito.

In 1486, Tsar Ivan IV (the Terrible) conquered the city of Kazan which had been under the rule of Moslem Tatars, and in remembrance of this, he decreed that from henceforth the Islamic crescent be placed at the bottom of the Crosses to signify the victory of the Cross (Christianity) over the Crescent (Islam).

However, on 3 June, President Abbas issued a decree postponing sine die the legislative elections set earlier for 17 July and referring to the need for a new electoral law that would introduce at least 50 per cent proportional representation.