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

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.

He now leads a party that supports Yanukovych, who has even allowed Yushchenko to remain in the presidential residence since leaving office.

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

He was first appointed to the position on February 7, 2006, and six cabinets have since resigned under his watch.

Recognizing that Mr. Malloch Brown has been a champion of development at UNDP since assuming the position of Administrator in 1999,

The other indictee, Charles Taylor, who resigned as President of the Republic of Liberia in August 2003, has since that date been granted refuge in Nigeria.

Since the 1870s it has been usual (with a few exceptions) for each President to serve for exactly five years.

This government was the first to stay in office for a complete four year election period since Per Borten's coalition government of 1965 69.

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.

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

Japan s former Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, and Australia s former premier, Kevin Rudd, both championed regionalism from early in their short time in office.

Seeking the governorship (1883 1885) In 1883, Ohio Governor Charles Foster, a Republican who had held the office since 1880, looked for a Republican contender to succeed him.

The first Bosnia and Herzegovina State level Minister of Defence, Nikola Radovanovic, in office since April 2004, played an important and constructive role in driving the reform forward.

Sami resigned from his position at the clinic.

Préval took office in May 2006.

In 1914, after resigning his position at the Treasury, and also standing down as a member of Parliament, Paasikivi left public life and office.

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

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.

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.

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.

He took office on 24 February 2007.

He has my most sincere wish for every success in his office.

Douglas died after only a few months in office and was replaced by Pierre Charles, who died in office in January 2004.

Vice President ex officio

Eight years after seizing power and exiling his main civilian opponents, the general is moving heaven and earth to hold on to political office.

He assumed his current assignment on September 23, 2011.

Dubcek remained in office only until April 1969.

He resigned from his post in November 2011.

In 2013, he was elected to a fourth term in office.

He lost his money he lost his power.

The entire city, was sacked.

His term of office continued until December 31, 1971, when he retired.

In the election of 1985 the coalition lost its majority but stayed in office until 1986, when it stepped down after losing a parliamentary vote on petrol taxes.

I am certain that he will quit his job.

Much to his credit and in contrast to his immediate predecessor Obama tried, from his first day in office, to work towards a resolution of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

Official news agency Xinhua makes a double announcement Wang has been removed from his position and Bo Xilai has been replaced as Chonqing Party Chief by Zhang Dejiang.

He congratulated the new High Commissioner, expressing particular appreciation for his active role since taking office in advancing what had been a very difficult and ambitious agenda for the intersessional period.

Then came Tung s resignation as Chief Executive in March.

He lost his position at the university in 2003 for having written those papers.

BERLIN Two years have passed since Barack Obama was elected President of the United States. Much to his credit and in contrast to his immediate predecessor Obama tried, from his first day in office, to work towards a resolution of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

A year later, the Al Maliki I Government took office.

Of the more than 220,000 people arrested on drug charges since Calderón took office, three quarters have been released. Only 5 of the remaining 60,000 or so have been tried and sentenced.

He was the only surviving ex president since he left office until the end of Jacques Chirac's term on 16 May 2007, with the exception of a brief period between François Mitterrand's retirement in 1995 and death in early 1996.