Once he is a full member he can rightly ask after the loyalties of Qantas and Air Berlin.
I've been training as a full member of their team for a year now and it's paying off.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has formally submitted a request to join the United Nations as a full member state.
If Georgia does eventually become a full member, support and defense from other NATO nations is part of the package.
An ICC spokesman confirmed Zimbabwe's full member status of the organisation had not even been discussed at the Dubai conference.
Though today's meeting does bring Georgia into NATO, there is a clear idea that Georgia will eventually become a full member.
Some European governments, too, are toying with the idea of raising Palestine's status at the UN from that of observer to full member.
Its ultimate aim is independence, which it believes, will mean "direct representation and equality of status in Europe", with Scotland becoming a full member state.
Once the apotheosis of a pro-Western, dependable Muslim democracy, this week Turkey officially left the Western alliance and became a full member of the Iranian axis.
Ecuador, currently an associate, is a likely additional full member.
Its birth stemmed from Mexico's desire to be included in regional talking-shops, and from a general symbolic yearning to create a club that includes Cuba as a full member.
The poor are forced into a long or permanent bachelorhood, a status widely frowned upon in India, where marriage is deemed essential to becoming a full member of society.
The USA will take on Australia at the Champions Trophy in England in September and the 2007 World Cup will feature five nations who do not have Full Member status.
Sir Peter Hall and Sir Cameron Mackintosh were among 60 signatories of a letter to Chris Smith insisting they would not serve on any panel whose chair was not a full member of the council.
But in something of a dry run for the expected debate and decision on statehood in the UN General Assembly, the UN's cultural agency, UNESCO, voted on October 31st to admit Palestine as a full member.
Or might this new stability just possibly serve as the base for the profound changes needed if Russia is to become a full member of the developed and democratic world, as its size, its culture and its past achievements suggest it should?
"Over the coming days we will be speaking to the sporting authorities from Sri Lanka and India - two of our Full Member countries - to find out how we can help the relief efforts, " said ICC president Ehsan Mani.
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In an unusual, fast-track procedure, the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem was accepted as a world-heritage site and declared to be in danger at the behest of the Palestinian authority which was, controversially, admitted to UNESCO as a full member last November.
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Ironically, at the same time Clinton was attacking Israel's leader for killing the peace process, Abbas was at the UN asking the Security Council to accept as a full member an independent Palestine in a de facto state of war with Israel.
If the military bosses are sincere about wanting their country one day to become a full member of the European Union, they will have to learn how to accept the will of elected civilians, rather than always trying to get things the way they want them.
The installation of the Tsunami Early Warning System for the Caribbean was largely supported by the United States, among other countries, but following the vote of the General Conference to admit Palestine as a full member to UNESCO, all funds were cut in adherence to U.S. law.
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As we'd figured out last night, Symbian's big reveal for today was the completion of its move to a fully open, royalty-free platform -- meaning you no longer need to be a paid-in-full member of the Foundation to see all the code -- and they're ready to talk about it and spread the word far and wide.
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While the Bush Administration firmly asserted that a reunified Germany must be able to remain a full NATO member, the Soviet Union has been opposed.
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Iceland could then become a formal candidate in late 2009, when Sweden (another ally) holds the rotating EU presidency, and a full EU member by 2011.
But Sabah and Sarawak, where BN cleaned up, were given greater representation, with former Sabah chief minister Bernard Dompok moving into the PM's department as a full cabinet member.
When those countries got "accession" status in the EU in 2004, France, Germany and most of Old Europe banned their workers from coming in until the countries gained full-member status.
Earlier in the day, the NATO leaders held symbolic ceremonies to mark France's return as a full NATO member and to remember those who have died in NATO-led missions during the alliance's 60-year history.
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"If you don't know whether Britain is going to be a full positive member of the European Union in five years time, you'll wonder if you want to make that additional investment, " he said.
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