Example sentences of "head of state [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this end , it is calling a World Summit for Children to be held at the UN in New York next September , bringing together heads of state for the first time to discuss an important social issue . |
| 2 | At the July 1989 gathering of Heads of State on the island of Tarawa , in Kiribati , the South Pacific Forum placed the use of drift-nets in the South Pacific as its most important agenda item — the first time that an environmental issue had topped the agenda at a political gathering in the South Pacific . |
| 3 | The issue of workers ' rights found expression in a Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers ( pp. 36668 ; 36985 ) which was resolutely opposed by the United Kingdom alone , but which received , in a modified form , the assent of all other heads of state at the Strasbourg summit on Dec. 8-9 , 1989 ( see pp. 37132-33 ) . |
| 4 | Although the Social Charter as signed on 9 December 1989 by all the Heads of State of the EC , excluding the UK , is of no legal effect , UK companies can not afford to ignore it . |
| 5 | Heads of state of the world 's richest countries flew into Rio this month on a mission to save the world . |
| 6 | A summit meeting took place on Feb. 24 in Amman , the Jordanian capital , of the heads of state of the four countries which together composed the Arab Co-operation Council ( ACC ) , the organization set up in February 1989 under an agreement between Egypt , Iraq , Jordan and North Yemen [ see p. 36474 ] . |
| 7 | The Republic of Yemen was welcomed as a member of the United Nations on May 23 , and sent a unified delegation to the Arab League summit in Baghdad [ see pp. 37472-73 ] , where on May 29 it was agreed with the heads of state of the other three Arab Co-operation Council members ( Egypt , Iraq and Jordan ) that the Republic of Yemen would hold the seat formerly held by North Yemen . |
| 8 | A summit called for mid-October by Ivoirian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny , who supported Taylor , was called off after the heads of state of the five states contributing to ECOMOG — Nigeria , Ghana , Guinea , The Gambia and Sierra Leone — had declined to attend ; reports indicated a split along linguistic lines , with the minority anglophone states being the principal upholders of ECOMOG 's role . |
| 9 | In the final communiqué , issued on Dec. 25 , of the meeting , which was attended by the heads of state of the six GCC countries , the GCC urged " the international community and the [ UN ] Security Council in particular to put more pressure on the Iraqi regime " for the implementation of UN resolutions . |
| 10 | The 14th summit meeting of the heads of state of the Economic Community of the Countries of the Great Lakes was held in Gisenyi , Rwanda , on Aug. 1 ; discussions concentrated on regional security which was declared to be the " first objective " of the community . |
| 11 | The room was crammed with the bric-à-brac of kingship , the usual gifts from brother heads of state around the world : dolls in glass cases , a vivarium , two portraits of George Bush , seals of visiting warships , a porcelain plate from the Republic of China ( which keeps a one-man embassy in Nuku'alofa ) , a map of the moon presented by Mr Reagan , statuettes , umbrellas , a humidor and any number of sets of engraved Waterford glass . |
| 12 | He it was who ushered in the new head of state to the dais in Prague Castle where the oath was sworn . |
| 13 | On Oct. 23-24 he visited the Netherlands , the EC 's strongest opponent of apartheid ; this was the first visit by a South African head of state to the Netherlands since 1948 . |
| 14 | Col. Idriss Déby , head of state since the overthrow in December 1990 of Hissène Habré , on March 4 announced that he had appointed Jean Alingue Bawoyeu as Prime Minister . |
| 15 | President Mitterrand of France on April 18-19 made the first state visit to Romania by a west European head of state since the fall of Ceausescu in December 1989 . |
| 16 | East Germany 's leaders will have the opportunity of discussing the future of the two Germanys over the next two days with President Franois Mitterrand of France , the first head of state of the Western wartime Allies to pay an official visit to East Germany . |
| 17 | PRESIDENT Franois Mitterrand , the first head of state of the wartime Allies to visit East Germany , said yesterday that the existence of two sovereign German states could not be ‘ abolished at a stroke ’ . |
| 18 | Different considerations would arise if it did , since it would be contrary to public policy for the court not to recognise as a qualified representative of the head of state of the foreign state the diplomatic representative recognised by Her Majesty 's Government . |
| 19 | The head of state of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas , an independent member of the Commonwealth since July 1973 , is the British sovereign , represented by a Governor General ( currently Sir Henry Taylor in an acting capacity ) . |
| 20 | The head of state of the Solomon Islands , an independent member of the Commonwealth since July 1978 , is the British sovereign represented by a Governor General ( currently Sir George Lepping ) . |
| 21 | The head of state of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas , an independent member of the Commonwealth since July 1973 , is the United Kingdom sovereign , represented by a Governor-General . |
| 22 | The head of state of the Solomon Islands , an independent member of the Commonwealth since July 1978 , is the United Kingdom sovereign represented by a Governor-General . |
| 23 | Mujjaddedi , who had travelled overland from Peshawar along with 20 other IJC members , was formally appointed as head of state of the new Islamic State of Afghanistan . |
| 24 | Kerekou was to remain head of state during the transitional period , but with the defence portfolio removed from his responsibilities . |
| 25 | On Oct. 26 the national conference elected Amadou Cheffou as Prime Minister for a 15-month transitional period ( Nov. 1 , 1991-Jan. 31 , 1993 ) ; on Oct. 11 the conference had confirmed that President Ali Saibou would remain head of state during the transition . |
| 26 | On Aug. 5 Gen. Amadou Toumani Touré , head of state during the period of transition to democracy from March 1991 to June 1992 , was granted personal immunity from prosecution in recognition of " his role in the restoration of the Third Republic " . |
| 27 | The seats included Sope 's own and that of President Fred Timikata who was appointed head of state after the imprisonment of his predecessor , a relative of Sope 's who was implicated in the events of 1988 . |
| 28 | AUSTRALIA will replace the Queen as head of state by the end of the century , premier Paul Keating forecast yesterday . |
| 29 | Queen Elizabeth II was replaced as head of state by the former Governor General , Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau , who was sworn in as President on Dec. 5 . |
| 30 | Following his victory in the Oct. 11 parliamentary elections , Georgian State Council chair Eduard Shevardnadze was confirmed as parliamentary chairman and head of state by the new Georgian parliament , meeting on Nov. 6 . |