He assumed his current assignment on September 23, 2011.

The first international Registrar responsible for the War Crimes and Organized Crime Chambers within the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina took up his post early in the year.

Préval took office in May 2006.

This month, the new mayors took office without the electoral commission (CSE) having made public 100 of the votes, an open violation of Nicaraguan electoral law.

The Office has grown from 7 members when the Prosecutor took office to 91 fixed term staff in July 2005.

He took office on 24 February 2007.

Mr. Anshor (Indonesia), Vice Chairman, took the Chair.

Since taking office, Rouhani has responded quickly to the Iranian public s demands.

Under the leadership of the new Under Secretary General, who assumed his post in February 2005, every effort is being made to have the major elements of the Department in place and running by the sixtieth session of the General Assembly.

This great moderation was not anticipated when Alan Greenspan took office.

It was in these circumstances that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi took office in April 2001.

Mr. Xuexian Wang assumed his duties on the first day of the thirty fourth session.

At present the Governor of Anguilla is Alan Huckle, who took up office in May 2004.

On one hand, he is wise not to have visited the Yasukuni shrine, which honors millions of Japan s war dead, including 14 Class A war criminals.

Carter took office hoping to normalize relations with China.

Relations have cooled since the current King of Jordan took office in 2000, but remain good.

In the absence of Mr. Yañez Barnuevo (Spain), Mr. Zyman (Poland), Vice Chairman, took the Chair.

Accordingly, the member elected to fill the remainder of the term left vacant by the resignation of Judge Gilbert Guillaume will serve until 5 February 2009.

The member elected to replace Judge Guillaume will thus serve until 5 February 2009.

Kan assumed his current office in Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama s administration this past January.

Mr. Smith (Belize) We congratulate the President of the General Assembly on the assumption of his office.

The new WTO Director General, Pascal Lamy, will take office in September 2005.

Obama s presumptive Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, has promised to declare China guilty of currency manipulation the day he takes office.

Mr. Jessen Petersen has a firm grip on the job in Kosovo, as has already been demonstrated by the good results achieved.

I solemnly declare that I will perform my duties and exercise my powers as a member of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination honourably, faithfully, impartially and conscientiously.

He took office after winning the March 2006 presidential election and was re elected to a second term in March 2011.

I solemnly declare that I will perform my duties and exercise my powers as a member of the ad hoc Conciliation Commission honourably, faithfully, impartially and conscientiously.

Vicente Fox took office in 2000 with a broad mandate, but, like Calderón, without a majority in Congress.

One of his cabinet appointees was arrested for corruption within two weeks of Leung s assumption of his official duties.

When President Felipe Calderón took office in 2006, he inherited rising violence, with drug traffickers controlling parts of the country.

A useful starting point is to examine the key appointments that have been made since President Xi Jinping assumed office.

After the military ousted Zelaya in a coup d'état, Lobo was elected president in the 2009 presidential election and took office on 27 January 2010.

But it is now clear to historians that Richard Nixon was determined to make his overture to China from the moment he began his presidency.

But, since Iran s new president, Hassan Rouhani, took office at the beginning of August, the West, to put it bluntly, has not demonstrated sufficient will to explore possible openings.

Later, Yeltsin, upon assuming office as Russia s leader in 1990, denounced all Nomenklatura privileges as his first order of business.

NEW YORK In 1981, US President Ronald Reagan came to office famously declaring that, Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.

The issue of the political status of the island has not been addressed since the new Governor, Felix Camacho, took office in January 2003.

Mr. Jessen Petersen has done a great deal of active work since he assumed his post last year, and we express our appreciation to him for that.

In November 2004, he requested the same parastatal to give 100,000 to the Permanent Mission in New York to meet his expenses. These telephonic directions were not confirmed in writing.

He was elected president unopposed by members of parliament (acting as an electoral college) on 19 August 2005 and took office on 26 August 2005.

During the intersessional period, Luis Alberto Pádilla Menéndez (Guatemala) took up office and was designated third Vice Chairman in accordance with the election held on 19 March 2004.

The arrival at post on 8 August 2005 of Antonio V. Monteiro, the United Nations Secretary General's High Representative for the elections in Côte d'Ivoire is generally viewed as a welcome and timely development.

The Doha Round of global trade talks remains stalled, and Obama delayed the three bilateral free trade agreements that awaited approval when he came into office.

As president and especially as prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev has been the butt of many jokes in Russia, where political observers have predicted his resignation since he took office. Medvedev has a reputation for clumsy, sometimes even foolish public appearances.

Based in Cologne, Germany, the EASA was created on 15 July 2003, and it reached full functionality in 2008, taking over functions of the Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA).