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KYIV, Ukraine, May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Having assumed the presidency at the , Ukraine will prepare a new strategy for 2012-2015 focusing on protecting the rights of children, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, speaking today at the international conference "Combating violence against children: from individual action to comprehensive strategies. The minister stressed that protecting children's rights is a key theme for every region of Ukraine.

• U.S. Newswire
• May 25, 2011

• EU Council of Ministers Reaches Agreement on AIFM Directive.

Summary On October 19, the European Union Council of Ministers announced that agreement had been reached at its ECOFIN meeting on a compromise text of...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2010, January 2010

• EU Council of Ministers Approves Merger Law

On January 20, 2004, the European Union Council of Ministers approved Council Regulation No. 139/2004 EC Merger Regulation (ECMR), a new merger law th...

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• The Role of the General Auditing Bureau of Saudi Arabia

In Saudi Arabia, the practice of financial control began as early as August 1926, when a Basic Law of Governance approved the establishment of a Bureau of Accounts. In March 1954, the Council of Ministers, chaired by the King, issued its first act naming the Bureau of Accounts a state agency. The General Auditing Bureau (GAB), the first independent audit institution, was established in 1971, reporting directly to the King, and in 1995 a royal order approved a new GAB organizational structure. Since the Council of Ministers approved the recommendations of the first seminar, the GAB has taken a series of steps to implement those recommendations and contribute to the development of state agencies. The following sections summarize the GAB's actions. These include: 1. improve the government ...

• International Journal of Government Auditing
• Vol. 37 Nbr. 1, January 2010

• New Eu-Us Agreement On Pnr Improves Data Protection and Fights Crime and Terrorism

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The European Union and the United States have today initialed a new agreement on the transfer of air passengers' data for flights from the EU to the US. If adopted by the European Parliament and EU Member States in the Council of Ministers, the new agreement on Passenger Name Records (PNR) will replace the current agreement from 2007, improving data protection whilst providing an efficient tool to fight serious transnational crime and terrorism. The new PNR agreement brings more clarity and legal certainty to both citizens and air carriers. It ensures better information sharing by US authorities with law enforcement and judicial authorities from the EU, it sets clear limits on what purposes PNR data may be used for, and it contains a ...

• U.S. Newswire
• November 17, 2011

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• Joint Statement by the Foreign Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and the United States

The Ministers reaffirmed the obligations of all states, in accordance with international law; relevant agreements; UN Security Council Resolutions 1546 (2004), 1618 (2005), 1267 (1999), and 1373 (2001); and other relevant Security Council Resolutions, to combat terrorist activities and to prevent the use by terrorists of their territory for supplying, organizing, and launching terrorist operations in Iraq.

• DISAM Journal of International Security Assistance Management
• Vol. 30 Nbr. 4, December 2008

• Protests Flare in Tripoli; Eu Condemns Crackdown

CAIRO - European Union foreign ministers Monday condemned Libya's violent treatment of anti-government protesters and repression by the government of Moammar Gadhafi. The 27 EU foreign ministers, in a statement following their regular monthly meeting, reportedly said the Council of Foreign Ministers "condemns the ongoing repression against demonstrators in Libya and deplores the violence and death of civilians.

• Charleston Gazette
• February 22, 2011

• Beirut On the Brink

The situation started to unfold the morning of May 6, when Siniora's Council of Ministers decided to sack Beirut International Airport's security chief Brigadier General Wafiq Shukair-a suspected Hezbollah-sympathizer-over the alleged placement of cameras in the airport thought capable of monitoring the movements of government officials Dr. Franklin Lamb has since debunked this allegation. It was Saad Hariri, parliamentary majority leader, head of the Future Movement and son of the late Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, who released radical Salafi militants from jail or granted them amnesty in order to unleash them on Hezbollah.

• Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, The
• Vol. 27 Nbr. 5, July 2008

• EU Council of Ministers Approves Merger Law.

On January 20, 2004, the European Union Council of Ministers approved Council Regulation No. 139/2004 EC Merger Regulation (ECMR), a new merger law th...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2004, May 2004