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| | First Minister of Northern Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Until 2002, the First Minister's post was held by David Trimble leader of the Ulster Unionist Party. |  | | He was succeeded upon his retirement by the new SDLP leader, Mark Durkan. |  | | Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister (official website) |
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| | Feminist Daily News 5/15/2003: First Woman Minister Appointed in Qatar |
 | | The appointment of Sheikha Al-Mahmoud came after the ratification of the first Constitution in Qatar in late April. |  | | The first female minister in Qatar, Sheikha Ahmad Al-Mahmoud, took office last week as the Minister of Education. |  | | Sheikha Al Jafarie, the first municipal council member in Qatar, commented on the appointment of Al-Mahmoud by saying that the new Minister is "highly qualified and indeed is the right person in the right position," according to AMAN. |
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http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=7789
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| | The Reverend Duke Gray, interim minister of First Parish Church |
 | | I was ordained in 1965 by the First Unitarian Congregational Society (The Church of the Saviour) in Brooklyn, N.Y., where I served 5 years as Assistant Minister with a special focus on social justice issues. |  | | In 1980 I became Senior Minister at the First Unitarian Church of Chicago on the University of Chicago campus, and served as an Adjunct Faculty member at Meadville/Lombard Theological School, across the street from the church. |  | | As Senior Minister I was the nominal CEO for 60+ staff members serving both the church and these community ministries. |
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http://www.fpcberlin.org/minister.html
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| | First Rlys minister from Kerala raises hopes of largesse |
 | | Rajagopal took over as Minister of State for Railways after the resignation of his predecessor, Bangaru Laxman, who stepped down after his election as the BJP party president. |  | | NEW DELHI, SEPT 2: With the Railways getting its first minister from Kerala in 30 years, some pending projects in the southern state are now expected to be expedited. |  | | Rajagopal, the Minister of State for Law, will be holding Railways as additional charge. |
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http://www.expressindia.com/ie/daily/20000903/ina03003.html
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| | Middle East Online |
 | | A third son, Hamdan, remains deputy prime minister and minister of state for foreign affairs, effectively in charge of foreign policy despite the presence of a foreign minister, Rashed Abdullah al-Nuaimi, who was unchanged. |  | | The cabinet shuffle, reported by the state WAM news agency, also made the UAE the first member of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to put a minister in charge of GCC affairs at a time when the six-member bloc is trying to move toward economic integration. |  | | Sheikh Fahem bin Sultan al-Qassemi, who was economy minister before the reshuffle and a one-time secretary general of the GCC (grouping Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia alongside the UAE) will now handle GCC affairs as well as those of the country's ruling Supreme Council. |
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http://www.middle-east-online.com/english?id=11747
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| | Church installs first transgender minister - Bay Windows - Local News |
 | | Auffant is a former ministerial intern and summer minister at First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington. |  | | Auffant was attending the Nichols United Methodist Church in Connecticut with her family when a woman minister stepped up to the pulpit. |  | | After her ordination in April 1999, Auffant served three years as parish minister at the Unitarian Fellowship of Storrs in her native Connecticut. |
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http://www.baywindows.com/news/2002/11/07/LocalNews/Church.Installs.First.Transgender.Minister-318020.shtml
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| | Scotsman.com News - Fall of a First Minister - Wendy: The talent and the tantrums |
 | | After cabinet, the First Minister emerged from a private one-to-one meeting with Alexander in the upstairs drawing room which also served as his office at Bute House. |  | | When I did arrive to work for Henry McLeish, as the First Minister’s press secretary, I had heard a lot about Alexander’s style as a minister, but dismissed it as gossip from rivals jealous of her ability and her rapid rise to the Scottish cabinet. |  | | There were even one or two who gave the First Minister credit for reducing the size of the cabinet. |
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http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=190&id=96192002
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| | The South End Newspaper - LOCAL/STATE - New minister at First UU welcomes diversity |
 | | Teed explained that the UU Association in Boston sent the committee three names of ministers with their biographies, and were told that if they were not satisfied with the first three, they would be given more names. |  | | Parke started ministering in 1955 as a parish minister at a church in Peterborough, N.H., which paid $80 a week. |  | | He said both of his mother’s parents were ordained Unitarian ministers. |
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http://www.southend.wayne.edu/modules/news/print.php?storyid=256
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| | Parliament nominates new First Minister |
 | | Deputy First Minister Jim Wallace will continue to act as First Minister, under the terms of the Scotland Act 1998, until Mr McConnell is confirmed as First Minister next week. |  | | He received 70 votes and was declared the victor on the first ballot against three rival candidates who received a total of 56 votes. |  | | The Scotland Act 1998 now requires the Presiding Officer to recommend to the Queen that Mr McConnell be appointed First Minister. |
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http://www.scotland.gov.uk/pages/news/2001/11/SE4900.aspx
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| | First Minister names his Cabinet |
 | | First Minister Jack McConnell today named the members of his new Cabinet and promised it would focus on the priorities of the people and work tirelessly to deliver real improvements in everyday life. |  | | > First Minister sworn in at Court of Session |  | | The appointment of his successor will be announced on Wednesday. |
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http://www.scotland.gov.uk/pages/news/2001/11/SE4933.aspx
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| | First Minister of Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The First Minister of Wales is the leader of the Welsh Assembly Government, Wales's devolved administration. |  | | This was also attributed to the fact that the Welsh term for First Minister Prif Weinidog, also translates as Prime Minister, and when told this, Prime Minister Tony Blair objected to its use. |  | | This change of title occurred after the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government with Labour in the Welsh Assembly in October 2000. |
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http://www.secaucus.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/First_Minister_of_Wales
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| | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Scottish first minister appoints new cabinet |
 | | Scotland's first minister, Jack McConnell, unveiled his cabinet yesterday with a promise to restore public confidence in devolution. |  | | The former education minister, Cathy Jamieson, becomes justice minister, responsible for overseeing the Labour youth crime initiative, which would penalise the parents of persistent young offenders. |  | | The finance minister, Andy Kerr, an ally of Mr McConnell, retains his brief, but Mike Watson has lost his job as minister for tourism. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,960231,00.html
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| | Justice minister dedicates first family law section |
 | | The sovereign further instructed the minister to ensure the new judicial system staff training and to make proposals for appointing a committee of experts to draft a practical guidebook on relevant provisions and rules pertaining to the family judicial system, to serve as a single source of reference. |  | | Justice minister, Mohammed Bouzoubaa, dedicated in Casablanca on Friday the first family law section in a Casablanca first instance tribunal. |  | | The court president told MAP reforms introduced in the family law are based on daily facts and figures. |
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http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/031018/2003101802.html
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| | Italy's Foreign Minister Is First Euro Victim |
 | | First, Ruggiero's longtime mentor, FIAT magnate Gianni Agnelli, pushed his candidacy, while government coalition partners were negotiating the composition of the Cabinet, threatening Berlusconi that if he did not accept him, they would topple him as they did in 1994. |  | | The first test for Berlusconi as his own Foreign Minister will be exactly such a challenge. |  | | Berlusconi responded by formally praising Ruggiero, but said that Italian foreign policy is anyhow made by the Prime Minister, since Ruggiero is "only a technician." This was a clear dismissal, and Ruggiero resigned. |
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http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2002/2902ruggiero.html
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| | Former Scottish First Minister Highlights Global Carter Lecture Series at CASC April 22 |
 | | Upon the death of Scotland’s First Minister, David Dewer, McLeish was elected head of the Scottish Parliament, First Minister. |  | | In 1997, as a Minister in the government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, he was appointed Minister of State and Scottish Office Minister for Devolution, Home Affairs and Local Government. |  | | —The Right Honorable Henry McLeish, former Scottish First Minister and Member of the British Parliament (MP) was the featured speaker at the spring Jimmy Carter Lecture Series-International Perspective at Carl Albert State College Thursday, April 22. |
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http://www.casc.cc.ok.us/campus_news/firstminister.htm
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| | GN Online: Yemen names first woman minister in wide reshuffle |
 | | The new foreign minister, Abubakr Al Qerbi, is a university professor who had earlier served as education minister. |  | | Yemen's president launched a wide government reshuffle yesterday, naming former foreign minister Abdul-Qader Bagammal to head a cabinet with a majority of new faces and the Arab state's first woman minister. |  | | Wahiba Fare, a university professor, will be the new government's only female member as minister of state for human rights, a new cabinet post. |
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| | Walpole, Britain's First Prime Minister (from England) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
 | | Contains profile of the current Indian Prime Minister, the Cabinet, and the Ministers of State. |  | | Published in 1891 and dramatized in 1897, the sentimental novel The Little Minister by British author James M. Barrie tells the story of Gavin Dishart, a young, impoverished minister with his first congregation. |  | | Includes a list of former prime ministers of the country with brief biographies and speeches. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-200274?tocId=200274
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| | Caribbean Net News: New Prime Minister holds first Cabinet meeting in Antigua |
 | | Following the meeting with his staff, PM Spencer also held his first meeting with the newly appointed members of his Cabinet. |  | | JOHN'S, Antigua: Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer continues to settle in his new position and office as Antigua and Barbuda's third Prime Minister. |  | | Back row (left to right): Colin Derrick, Minister of Social Transformation; John Maginley, Minister of Health, Sports and Youth Affairs; Dr. Errol Cort, Minister of Finance and the Economy; Harold Lovell, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tourism and Trade; Charlesworth Samuel, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries; Bertrand Joseph, Minister of Education. |
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http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/2004/03/28/cabinet.htm
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| | CNN.com - Abu Mazen confirmed as Palestinian prime minister - May. 1, 2003 |
 | | Abu Mazen became the first Palestinian prime minister, winning a vote of confidence in his new government. |  | | Abu Mazen became the first Palestinian prime minister Tuesday, winning a vote of confidence in his new government and opening the door for renewed peace talks with Israel. |  | | The vote was 51 in favor, 18 against, with three abstaining. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/29/palestinian.cabinet
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| | RTE News - Trimble resigns as First Minister |
 | | RTE News - Trimble resigns as First Minister |  | | The Deputy First Minister, Seamus Mallon, said that the move had worsened the political instability in Northern Ireland. |  | | The Northern Secretary, Dr John Reid, said that the UUP leader's resignation was regrettable. |
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| | Irish Times Article - DUP entitled to fill the position of first minister |
 | | The Democratic Unionist Party, with 30 seats, is entitled to fill the first minister's position, while Sinn Féin, as the largest nationalist party, should fill the deputy first minister post. |  | | Three Alliance MLAs and two Women's Coalition representatives changed colours temporarily in November 2001 to ensure Mr Trimble's re-election and that of the SDLP leader, Mr Mark Durkan, as deputy first minister. |  | | However, the Ulster Unionist leader, Mr Trimble, could, technically, exploit the DUP's refusal to create a power-sharing executive alongside Sinn Féin and be re-elected as first minister. |
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| | "Prime Minister Barak's First Year: Diplomacy and Politics" by Zalman Shoval |
 | | Notably, in the case of the Irish Agreement, British Prime Minister Tony Blair was willing to freeze the peace process until the Irish Republican Army showed that it was ready to disarm. |  | | He had what was often, though misleadingly, described as a "landslide victory" in the 1999 elections (though, in truth, Jewish voters gave him only a slim 3.2 percent majority over Netanyahu - compared to the almost 12 percent margin by which Netanyahu had defeated Peres in the previous elections). |  | | "Prime Minister Barak's First Year: Diplomacy and Politics" by Zalman Shoval |
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| | GN Online: Al Mahmoud is Qatar's first woman minister |
 | | Qatari women yesterday celebrated the appointment of the first woman minister in the history of the state. |  | | Last week, Qataris overwhelmingly approved their first constitution in the state's first step toward democracy. |  | | In what has been considered a strong move towards the implementation of his democratic reform plan, His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, appointed the country's first woman Cabinet minister. |
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| | Kuwait appoints first female minister ever |
 | | The prime minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah appointed an activist who defends human rights, Masouma Mubarak, in the post of the minister of planning and a minister of state for administrative development affairs. |  | | The new minister, the only Shiite member in the Kuwaiti Cabinet, composed of 16 members, has filled the gap left by the resignation of the minister of information since several months. |  | | This step came in an attempt by the government of Kuwait to enhance the political position of women in the country after the Kuwaiti Ummah council approved in May giving women the right to vote and to be candidates in elections. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Politics Special Reports McConnell to be next first minister |
 | | The current education minister, and his wife, Bridget, appeared before reporters in a pre-emptive bid to fend off damaging rumours about his private life. |  | | Jack McConnell is to be the new Scottish first minister after nominations closed at 5pm today with no other candidate coming forward. |  | | Meanwhile, deputy health minister Malcolm Chisholm said he had decided to withdraw from the contest, leaving the field clear for Mr McConnell. |
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| | Former hard-line prime minister wins first round of Slovakia's presidential election |
 | | Vladimir Meciar, whose rule was criticized by Western leaders for its lack of democracy and rule of law, won 32.7 percent of the vote in his bid for the mostly ceremonial presidency, said Ladislav Jaca, a central election commission official. |  | | Ivan Gasparovic, who left Meciar's Movement for a Democratic Slovakia in 2002 to form his own party, was second with about 22.3 percent of the vote. |  | | The candidate who had topped most polls, Foreign Minister Eduard Kukan, trailed in third place with 22.1 percent, less than 4,000 votes behind Gasparovic. |
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| | Breaking the Boundaries: UAE Appoints First Female Minister |
 | | The UAE’s appointment of its first female minister comes months after its Gulf neighbor Bahrain appointed Nada Abbas Haffadh as its first female minister of health as part of the landmark, political and economic reforms initiated in the Gulf state by King Hamad Al-Khalifa. |  | | On March 2, Sultan Qaboos of Oman appointed Sheikha Aisha bint Khalfan Al-Sayabiyah as minister in charge for the National Authority for Industrial Craftsmanship. |  | | RIYADH, 3 November 2004 — The United Arab Emirates has chosen its first female minister in the latest Cabinet reshuffle on Monday. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Middle East UAE to get first woman minister |
 | | There are other women ministers in Gulf countries, in Bahrain, Oman and Qatar, but Sheikha Lubna's role is the most senior to date. |  | | Sheikha Lubna al-Qasimi is the most senior woman minister in the Gulf |  | | The United Arab Emirates has appointed its first female government minister. |
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| | Khaleej Times Online |
 | | Haffadh, born in 1957, is the third woman to be made a minister in the Gulf Arab states. |  | | Women voted for the first time in Bahrain during a 2001 referendum on constitutional reforms that saw the restoration of parliament following elections in October 2002. |  | | Qatar appointed Sheikha Ahmed al-Mahmud minister of education last May and in March this year Oman named Rawya Bint Saud al-Bussaidi minister for higher education. |
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| | First Minister's Meetings - International and Intergovernmental Relations |
 | | First Ministers' Meeting on Health, January and February 2003. |  | | February 2003 First Ministers' Accord on Health Care Renewal |  | | January 2003 First Ministers' Accord on Health Care Renewal |
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http://www.iir.gov.ab.ca/canadian_intergovernmental_relations/federal_provincial_relations_first_ministers.asp
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| | BBC NEWS VOTE2001 NORTHERN IRELAND 'Adams as first minister' |
 | | Mr McGuinness, who is contesting the Mid-Ulster seat he won from the DUP in 1997, concedes that he enjoys his other political role as education minister. |  | | Mr McGuinness confides in the interview his political heroes include the labour politician Tony Benn and he has more words of praise for another British politician: Tony Blair. |  | | Mr McGuinness told Wednesday's Daily Telegraph newspaper he believed his party was only four points behind the Ulster Unionists and would see gains in the coming elections. |
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http://amiabstractornot.highlyillogical.org/vote2001/hi/english/northern_ireland/newsid_1359000/1359279.stm
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| | Pravda.RU Igor Ivanov Nad Indian First Deputy Minister of External Affairs to Discuss Iraq Crisis |
 | | A visit of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Igor Ivanov to Hungary is scheduled for July, and Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Kasyanov is to visit that country in September, chairperson of the State Council of Hungary Katalin Szili said at a meeting with Igor Ivanov in Moscow on Friday. |  | | It was announced at a meeting between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Russian political director in the G-8 Georgi Mamedov and British Ambassador to Moscow Roderick Lyne. |  | | The Russian delegation at the negotiations will be headed by First Deputy Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Trubnikov, and the Indian delegation - by First Deputy Minister of External Affairs Kanwal Sibal. |
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| | The Daily Star - Politics - Kuwait names first woman minister |
 | | KUWAIT CITY: The Kuwaiti government has named liberal academic Maasuma al-Mubarak as the Gulf emirate's first woman minister, one month after women were granted full political rights. |  | | The two women are Sheikha Fatima Nasser al-Sabah, a member of the ruling family and sister of former oil minister Sheikh Saud Nasser al-Sabah, and Fawziya al-Bahar, both engineers. |  | | U.S.-educated Mubarak, a leading women's rights activist and professor of international relations at Kuwait University, was appointed minister of planning and administrative development. |
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| | Khasis rest hope on first Union minister |
 | | Before government formation at the Centre, Chief Minister D.D. Lapang and Meghalaya Pradesh Congress president S.C. Marak had rushed to New Delhi to lobby with the party high command Sonia Gandhi to get Kyndiah inducted into the Cabinet. |  | | He had taken part in the hill state movement and later on, served as Home Minister and Meghalaya Assembly Speaker. |  | | He also served as Mizoram Governor before contesting the 1998 Lok Sabha election. |
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| | who was the first prime minister of canada - PointAsk Question |
 | | The Act of Confederation came into effect on July 1, 1867, and Sir John A. Macdonald was elected to the office of Prime Minister of the new Canadian Confederation on the same day. |  | | The province of Newfoundland was the last province to join Confederation, in 1949. |  | | Before 1867, British North America was a collection of seven separate colonies: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, the Province of Canada (now Québec and Ontario), Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, and British Columbia. |
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| | CBC Prince Edward Island - First minister's meeting kicks off in Ottawa |
 | | Canada's first ministers are meeting Friday in Ottawa, the first formal meeting between new Prime Minister Paul Martin and the provincial and territorial leaders. |  | | CBC Prince Edward Island - First minister's meeting kicks off in Ottawa |  | | Health care is the major issue on the agenda and Binns says even though Martin held the purse strings for years, the premier is hopeful the prime minister will be more forthcoming in his new role. |
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| | Canada's new prime minister holds first Cabinet meeting, says first priority is tougher ethics code |
 | | A day after he was sworn in, Prime Minister Paul Martin met Saturday with his new Cabinet and said the first order of business would be creating an independent ethics commissioner to monitor his Liberal Party government's behavior. |  | | Martin also named a prominent human rights lawyer, Irwin Cotler, as justice minister. |  | | The new finance minister, Ralph Goodale, said it would be difficult to control government spending in a period where an array of first-time Cabinet ministers would be seeking money for attention-getting initiatives. |
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| | Bosnia gets first defence minister |
 | | Former foreign ministry official Nikola Radovanovic was appointed Bosnia's first defence minister on Monday, filling a post created as part of reforms sought by NATO. |  | | International high representative to Bosnia, Paddy Ashdown, said Radovanovic's appointment should serve as a "catalyst" for military reform. |  | | The nomination of Radovanovic, an ethnic Serb, was approved by the central parliament after two previous Serb nominees were found to have committed alleged crimes during the country's 1992-95 war. |
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| | RTE News - McLeish voted as Scottish First Minister |
 | | He will be confirmed as First Minister by the Scottish Parliament next week. |  | | RTE News - McLeish voted as Scottish First Minister |  | | The Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Minister will take up an interim role as First Minister to satisfy a ruling that the fledgling Edinburgh Parliament cannot be leaderless for more than 28 days. |
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| | Care Home Problems in First Minister's Back Yard, Wales |
 | | Care Home Problems in First Minister's Back Yard, Wales |  | | Worldwide hospital database, search by country or keyword. |  | | Rhodri Glyn Thomas has informed the First Minister and his Health Minister of a public meeting so they can explain to local constituents how their policies are helping the care sector. |
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| | Unitarian Universalists welcome first minister to Auburn |
 | | He served as an intern minister with the Monterey Peninsula Unitarian Universalist church during 2003-2004, and was fellowshipped into the UU Association at the denomination's annual convocation last June in Long Beach. |  | | Lewis preached his first sermon from his new pulpit at 10 a.m. |  | | Board president Maureen Bauman greets Rev. Tom Lewis, the new minister for the Sierra Foothills Unitarian Universalist church. |
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http://www.auburnjournal.com/articles/2005/01/14/news/lifestyle/02minister.txt
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| | First Minister of Scotland - Uncyclopedia |
 | | Dead Donald's deputy, the Right Hand of the First Minister, is responsible for screwing things up on a day to day basis. |  | | The First Minister is Scotland's version of a Prime Minister. |  | | Scotland's First Minister is Dead Donald Dewar, who is always getting into funny scrapes and amusing situations because he's dead. |
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| | UK government appoints first e-minister - IT Week |
 | | A minister of state, Hewitt is one level higher than the outgoing Wills. |  | | Patricia Hewitt appointed as the UK government's first 'e-minister' in a new role combining responsibilities for both the IT industry and the government's use of IT. |  | | New Labour insider Patricia Hewitt was appointed in July as the UK government's first 'e-minister' in a new role combining responsibilities for both the IT industry and the government's use of IT. |
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| | First China Minister Sets Foot in Rival Taiwan |
 | | Zhu, leading a 14-member delegation to a seminar on cross-strait science and technology exchanges, was the first cabinet minister from Beijing to visit Taiwan since it became estranged from the mainland in 1949 through a civil war. |  | | Beijing regards the Nationalist-ruled island as a renegade province that must be brought under mainland rule. |  | | This page was last revised Thursday 16 July 1998. |
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| | ePolitix.com - First minister promises Scots gun control |
 | | Speaking at his weekly Holyrood question time on Thursday, the first minister said the devolved executive would act "in a measured way" in response to the shooting of a two year-old boy in Glasgow last week. |  | | Labour MSP Frank McAveety asked the first minister "what action will be taken to curb reckless and irresponsible use of air guns". |  | | Scotland > Scottish parliament debates > Scottish first minister's question time |
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| | Question time with first minister |
 | | Highland Youth Voice was the first democratically elected youth parliament in Scotland. |  | | USE: IMMEDIATE ISSUE DATE: TUESDAY 4 MARCH 2003 |  | | Any young person with a question they would like the First Minister to answer should log on to www.highlandyouthvoice.org and register their ideas. |
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| | East Timor--first foreign minister |
 | | TEXT: East Timorese independence leader Jose Ramos-Horta says that as foreign minister, he plans to do his "utmost" to normalize relations with Indonesia. |  | | But the job of Foreign Minister will not be an easy one. |  | | Ramos-Horta went before the United Nations in New York to call for establishment of an international war crimes tribunal for East Timor to punish those responsible for the violence that surrounded the vote for independence last year. |
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| | Youth Voice Invited to Give First Minister Their Christmas Shopping List |
 | | "We could well have a First Minister of the future in our ranks," she said. |  | | Mr McLeish was joined by Alasdair Morrison, the Minister for the Highlands and Islands, as well as Wendy Alexander, Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning in meeting members of the Youth Voice from Dingwall Academy, Dornoch Academy, Invergordon Academy, Millburn Academy and Tain Royal Academy. |  | | Mrs Thomson praised the young people for the confidence they were showing in accepting their new-found responsibility. |
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