Other than the naming of a new Director-General (afternoon of 15 October) and the adoption of the 2010-2011 Programme and Budget, the agenda of the 35th session features a Ministerial Forum on strategies to overcome the economic crisis and on the future of UNESCO as a multilateral organization, on 8 October.

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In fact, she refused requests to put abortion bills on the agenda during a special legislative session this summer, preferring to discuss the natural-gas pipeline, which she pursued in such a bipartisan manner that she ultimately won more solid support for it from Democrats than from Republicans.

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The prime minister's spokesman said the Queen's Speech would include a "very focused programme" but the government had a "very full agenda" for the coming Parliamentary session.

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The package of bills will be one of the governor's key agenda items during the remainder of the legislative session, along with an overhaul of campaign-finance laws and an effort to codify state abortion laws to match federal standards.

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Chafee was invited to the White House last week for a one-on-one meeting with President Bush, but called the brief visit a "get to know you session" more than a substantive discussion about the direction of the GOP agenda.

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The session also covered net neutrality, antitrust issues and Genachowski's broadband-driven agenda at the FCC.

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Bayefsky reported that at the planning session in Geneva on Thursday, the Palestinian delegation proposed that a paragraph be added to the conference's agenda.

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Such incidents have thrust the environment onto the agenda of this year's National People's Congress, China's annual legislative meeting in session in Beijing.

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