He took office on 24 February 2007.

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

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

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.

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.

He said that, since he assumed his functions, he had been encouraged by the new spirit of cooperation between the Committee and the Department.

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

A formal decision on the group apos s findings will be taken by the new Executive Director when he assumes office in mid June 1994.

On taking office, the Prime Minister had been obliged to relinquish his shares.

Barack Obama said, before he was inaugurated,

He assumed his current assignment on September 23, 2011.

An alternate representative, when acting as representative, shall have all the rights of a representative.

Since he took office the Secretary General has carried out a number of changes in the Secretariat.

Neves won the Presidential elections, but fell ill and died before taking office, and Sarney became President.

On assuming office, the President thanked his predecessor for the work undertaken under his leadership.

He had realized as soon as he had taken office that United Nations financing arrangements were not satisfactory.

The approach adopted by the Secretary General of our Organization since he assumed office has been exemplary in many ways.

Other appropriate measures will be taken after the head of the information centre has assumed functions.

Article 155 states that the members of the cabinet have to be sworn in when taking office.

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

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.

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.

Gilani unequivocally declared in his inaugural address that fighting terrorism is a top priority, and his first decision was to release from house arrest judges deposed by Musharraf.

According to one rumor, as mayor of Tehran, Ahmadinejad drew up a new city plan for the Imam's return.

Upon assuming office, he entrusted budgetary forecasting to a new, independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), thus forfeiting any opportunity for sleight of hand.

By the end of his first year in office, the changes required to achieve financial stability and to balance the budget had been implemented almost entirely.

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

Mr. Escovar Salom stipulated that he would not be in a position to take office until February 1994.

Africa was confident that Mr. Yumkella would build on the outstanding work done by Mr. Magariños during his eight year tenure.

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

3. Confirmation of the Prime Minister by the legally reconstituted Parliament and his assumption of office in Haiti.

Obama, however, inherited an economy in freefall, and could not possibly have turned things around in the short time since his inauguration.

Mr. von der Schulenburg recently took up his duties in Baghdad.

7. The Conference recommends the convening of a national conference after the return to Haiti of President Jean Bertrand Aristide to discharge his functions.

But many Japanese were dumbfounded to learn that their finance minister began to grapple with the basic principles of economics only after assuming office.

I welcome the steps taken by the High Commissioner for Human Rights since his designation and express the hope that the resources made available to him will be commensurate with his mission.

In the second year of his term, the integrated programmes comprehensive packages of UNIDO services that later become a trademark of the reform process had been introduced.

Pay no attention to him.

But, in August 2010, just days after taking office, Santos abandoned Uribe s confrontational attitude and worked to normalize relations with Colombia s neighbors.

Following the election held on 7 March 2007, devolved government returned to Northern Ireland on 8 May 2007 with Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Féin deputy leader Martin McGuinness taking office as First Minister and deputy First Minister, respectively.

His job.

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.

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.

18. The Prosecutor was appointed on 21 October 1993 and is expected to take up his duties formally before the end of 1993.