An innovation by current President Romano Prodi's Commission helped.

The current president of the board is Annemarie Jorritsma.

The current President of Singapore is Tony Tan Keng Yam.

Tomislav Nikolić is the current president following the 2012 presidential election.

Together, they can keep Nicaragua s current president, Enrique Bolaños, in check indefinitely.

Peru, as current President of the Andean community, is promoting this issue.

The current President of the Republic is Bujar Nishani elected in July 2012.

John Dramani Mahama ( born 29 November 1958) is the current President of Ghana.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born 29 October 1938) is the 24th and current President of Liberia.

The current president is Masoud Barzani, who was initially elected in 2005 and re elected in 2009.

President Bush recently drew an analogy between the current struggle against violent jihadi terrorism and the Cold War.

Ilham Heydar oglu Aliyev ( born 24 December 1961) is the fourth and current President of Azerbaijan, since 2003.

Lula was succeeded in 2011 by the current president, Dilma Rousseff, the country's first woman president and as such one of the most powerful women in the world.

Recent surveys show that the increasing unpopularity of the current president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, stems primarily from his economic policies.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ( born 26 February 1954) is the 12th and current President of Turkey, in office since 2014.

Ernest Bai Koroma (born 2 October 1953) is the current President of Sierra Leone and the fourth since 2007.

Kgalema Motlanthe, who also served as President of South Africa, spent 10 years on Robben Island as a political prisoner, as did the current President of South Africa Jacob Zuma.

Moreover, George W. Bush seems to be far weaker than any normal lame duck president, creating a global power vacuum that has been filled vigorously by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is also the current president of the European Council.

According to a controversial report commissioned by the United Nations, former Ivorian President Laurent Gbabo's exiled allies are recruiting Islamists from Northern Mali to destabilize the current government of President Alassane Ouattara.

Danilo Medina Sánchez (born 10 November 1951) is a Dominican politician and the current President of the Dominican Republic, since 2012.

The President of the Tribunal confirms in the current report that the date for the completion of trials is now 2009.

Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta (born 26 October 1961) is the fourth and the current President of Kenya, in office since 9 April 2013.

In meetings with the assessment mission, President Kabbah, Vice President Berewa and concerned senior security officials stated that withdrawal of UNAMSIL at the end of June when its current mandate expires would be premature.

While India s president may be only a ceremonial head of state, during periods of political instability especially in the current age of coalition governments it is the president who makes crucial decisions about governing parties.

But when president and parliament are controlled by the same party Nicolas Sarkozy s current situation the reserved domain knows, in practice, no limit.

Since current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin became Russia s president in 2000, the country s vast energy wealth has become increasingly concentrated in state hands.

TEL AVIV Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s recent visit to Washington highlighted fundamental disagreements between Israel s current government and President Barack Obama s administration.

The current President is Toomas Hendrik Ilves elected by an electoral body on 23 September 2006 and re elected on 29 August 2011.

On 24 September, at the request of President Obasanjo, acting as current chairman of the African Union, the Council held another open briefing.

That same day in Argentina, former president Nestor Kirchner was defeated in a mid term election that many people viewed as a test of whether or not he or his wife Cristina, Argentina s current president and Nestor s successor, would continue as president after the vote of 2011.

First, there s the question of whether the European Commission s current president, former Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Barroso, should get another five year term.

Vital European and transatlantic interests are at stake. It is thus Europe s responsibility and especially Germany s, as the current EU president to act now.

Not in Ukraine, where the current prime minister, and Mr Yushchenko's leading rival for president, Viktor Yanukovich, has been twice convicted for violent crimes.

As a result, the current President of Côte d'Ivoire and leader of the Front populaire ivoirien (FPI) decided not to contest those presidential elections.

The Big Three of Europe and Germany, as the current EU president in particular must find a way to act together in strategic security matters.

Jean Claude Juncker ( born 9 December 1954) is the 12th and current President of the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union (EU).

Iran's current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected two years ago to face the foreign threat of having Iran considered a part of the 'axis of evil'.

This development poses the most significant challenge yet to current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a potential opportunity to alter the relationship between Iran and the West.

(a) Authorizing the President of the General Assembly, to propose interactive debates on current issues on the agenda of the Assembly, in consultation with Member States

As our current Norwegian President has stated recently, however, no advances will be made unless capitals exhibit the willingness to address the core issue head on.

Despite its many successes since 1990, and the high popularity of the current president (Socialist Michelle Bachelet, Chile s first female chief executive), time is taking a toll.

The right of center Party of National Action (PAN), the grouping of current President Vicente Fox and Calderón, needs to acquire a sincere and profound social conscience.

Barack Hussein Obama II (, born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States, and the first African American to hold the office.

Valeriu Ștefan Zgonea (born September 3, 1967 in Craiova) is a Romanian politician and current President of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania since 3 July 2012.

Most controversially, the conservative Council of Guardians disqualified two high profile candidates Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president, and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, an ally of the current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who have each dared to differ with the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.