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.

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

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

He assumed his current assignment on September 23, 2011.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

That spending binge will feed corruption, inflation, and natural resource dependency the three evils with which Kudrin has fought throughout his tenure.

Chen s personal wealth grew conspicuously shortly after he assumed office, but no one could produce hard evidence of his corruption back then.

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.

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 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.

Having promised to shut the base in the campaign, and having also pushed for its removal while in office, Hatoyama s reversal forced the Socialists to exit the coalition.

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

Having been in office for a little more than six months, President Abbas should be encouraged and given the time and the support he needs to consolidate his authority and to pursue reforms in his Government.

In July 1992 the Congress of Deputies, noting that he was a jurist of recognized competence , elected him as a judge of the Constitutional Court of Spain, in which function he served until November 2001.

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.

Our own new United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Alvaro de Soto, has taken up his post in the region, and I expect that he will brief the Council next month on his first impressions.

There is no reason to believe that Goodluck Jonathan will preemptively resign, and removing him from office if he assumes the presidency might well stoke unprecedented violence in the Delta.

Thus, President Enrique Peña Nieto s task since taking office one year ago has been to ensure that the promise of major change in Mexico finally translates into sustained economic growth, improved living standards, and faster convergence with the US and Canada.

At the 639th meeting on 2 May 2005, Mr. Xuexian Wang, designated to replace Mr. Yu Mengjia, made the solemn declaration upon assuming his duties, in accordance with rule 14 of the rules of procedure.

Sami wanted girls to pay attention to him.