If two-thirds of the UN member states vote in favor of recognition, a state is accepted as a member state.
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It was the first time euro-zone leaders accepted that a member could default and leave the euro. (And once the unthinkable is possible, why stop at Greece?) It was also the first time leaders intruded so deliberately into the internal politics of other countries.
The judge accepted Casey, a member of the travelling community, had "limited involvement" in the Exeter case.
Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, who chaired the summit, accepted Mr Blair's insistence that member countries keep their vetoes on such issues as tax, social security and judicial co-operation, instead of introducing majority voting as the draft constitution had proposed.
Now even Amre Moussa, the only Arab member of the panel, has accepted that any politically motivated violence against innocent civilians should be regarded as terrorism, and condemned.
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Mr Wilson rose to international prominence in the aftermath of the bombing and in 1993, he accepted an Irish government invitation to become a member of the Republic of Ireland's Senate.
Although Ivory Coast is not one of the member countries covered by the ICC, it has accepted its jurisdiction.
Salford City Council's lead member for housing, Councillor John Warmisham, said it accepted the criticisms of the report.
His guidelines: modify the existing fiscal charter agreed to by 25 of the 27 EU member with revisions about the types of debt that are accepted.
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It gives the EU a chance to show it is not just assumed to be accepted, but that it might genuinely lead Europe without alienating popular sentiment in its member countries.
Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the British Medical Association and a member of the BMA negotiating team, would not reveal how much the negotiators would have accepted when it came to the opt out although he said it was "not a sticking point".
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