Mr. Díaz Paniagua (Costa Rica) took the Chair.

Mr. Butagira (Uganda) took the Chair.

Mr. Duarte (Brazil) took the Chair.

Mr. Swe (Myanmar) took the Chair.

Mr. Heinsberg (Germany), Vice President, took the Chair.

Mr. Samy (Egypt), Vice Chairman, took the chair.

Ms. Kusorgbor (Ghana), Vice Chairman, took the Chair.

Tammann is a former President of the International Astronomical Union Commission on Galaxies.

The President of the General Assembly, Jean Ping (Gabon), served as Chairperson of the Working Group.

In 1988 he chaired the Hague Conference's Special Commission on General Affairs and Policy.

In the absence of the Chairman, Mr. Gerts (Netherlands), Vice Chairman, took the Chair.

In the absence of Mr. Swe (Myanmar), Mr. Droba (Slovakia), Vice Chairman, took the Chair.

In the absence of Mr. Wali (Nigeria), Mr. Koudelka (Czech Republic), Vice Chairman, took the Chair.

In the absence of Mr. Pinzón Sánchez (Colombia), Mr. Chan (Singapore), Vice Chairman, took the Chair.

Finalization and adoption of a draft convention on the use of electronic communications in international contracts (continued) (A CN.9 571, 573, 577 and Add.1, 578 and Add.1 17)

In the absence of Mr. Butagira (Uganda), Mr. Anshor (Indonesia), Vice Chairman, took the Chair.

Costa Rican economist and analyst Christiana Figueres is the daughter of José Figueres Ferrer, who served three times as President of Costa Rica.

Noting that the Chief Minister of Montserrat assumed the chairmanship of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States in May 2003,

But they are wrong to think that nothing has changed in the first year of his presidency.

In the summer of 1997, David was in Monrovia when Charles Taylor was inaugurated President of Liberia following an eight year civil war.

A judge advocate general (JAG) has headed the Canadian military legal branch since before the First World War.

He served as the Prime Minister of Egypt from 1 March 1922 until 30 November 1922, and again between 26 April 1927 and 16 March 1928.

The roots of the US crisis, of course, go back to the years when Alan Greenspan was chairman of the US Federal Reserve.

He served as the Prime Minister of Italy, from 17 May 1996 to 21 October 1998 and from 17 May 2006 to 8 May 2008.

Giuliano Amato ( born 13 May 1938) is an Italian politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Italy, first from 1992 to 1993 and again from 2000 to 2001.

He was the only person to have been President of both the American Political Science Association (1979 80) and the American Sociological Association (1992 93).

In accordance with Rule 9 of the Rules of Procedure, the following Member States assumed successively the Presidency of the Conference the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan and Peru.

In 1949 he was made the Deputy Minister of Defense, a position he held until 1952, when he was made the Chief of the General Staff.

On 25 January 1999 the Public Defender forwarded another letter to the Presidium of the Supreme Court on the author's behalf.

Even former Japanese war criminals, one of whom became prime minister in the late 1950 s, became subservient allies of the US in the wars (hot and cold) against Communism.

Moreover, Medvedev, who was at the helm of the state owned gas giant Gazprom for the last six years, is likely to be constrained in a more prosaic way.

In July 2005, the Deputy Secretary General chaired the first organizational meeting of the Management Performance Board, which conducted a review of existing sources of managerial performance data.

A more apt analogy popular in Egypt compares Mubarak to Leonid Brezhnev, who for two decades presided over the Soviet Union's stagnation and decline.

That reception was, of course, intended to nurture India s collective ego, which had sensed a Sino centric tilt to American policy ever since Obama became president.

Mykola Yanovych Azarov ( né Nikolai Yanovich Pakhlo born 17 December 1947) is a Ukrainian politician who was the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 11 March 2010 to 27 January 2014.

Bernanke, who took over at the Fed in 2006, launched his policy career in 1999 with a brilliant paper presented to the same Jackson Hole conference.

Maintaining France's weight within the European Union should have led Chirac to re confirm Lamy when José Manuel Barroso took over as President of the Commission.

Wolfowitz s pre Bank claim to fame was his role as an architect of the Iraq war, arguably one of the greatest strategic debacles since Napoleon s invasion of Russia.

He then assumed the European Union presidency just days after the resounding Irish No to the Lisbon Treaty reduced his role to an exercise in damage control at best.

Mario Draghi has been the president of the European Central Bank for barely a year, and the governor of the People s Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan, was almost replaced when he reached retirement age in February.

With Gaza poised on the brink of civil war, pity poor Mahmoud Abbas, who took over as president of the Palestinian Authority two and a half years ago, after the death of Yasser Arafat.

In the past, the Bank was seen as a purveyor of neoliberal orthodoxy an approach to development whose credibility had weakened by the time Wolfensohn arrived, and whose standing has eroded further since.

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The Chairman took the Chair.

In this regard we think that the A 5 proposal remains relevant as well, of course, as the other proposals which have been made thereafter, including the food for thought paper presented by the distinguished Ambassador of the Netherlands when he exercised with such competence the presidency of this meeting.