The Geneva plan allowed each side to veto candidates it found unacceptable for an interim government.
Six months later, an interim government stepped in, led by caretaker Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt.
The challenges facing an interim government would be great, both inside and outside of Syria.
UN's Mr Brahimi, now engaged in the selection of an interim government, is very aware.
Mr Avramovic is often touted as the best choice to head an interim government of technocrats.
Talks in Bonn between four Afghan factions agreed on an interim government which Mr Karzai would lead.
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But such an interim government will be weak and will not be mandated to go after the extremists.
Now it's up to President Giorgio Napolitano to either call an election or set up an interim government.
An interim government of technocrats remains in power, while politicians of many parties fail to agree on a ruling coalition.
The Northern Alliance and the king's factions have agreed, however, on a transitional council that would set up an interim government.
The rebels said their party was ready for talks with "all parties" to help form an interim government and prepare a new constitution.
But the Senate speaker, Franco Marini, failed to garner cross-party support for an interim government to change it, because Mr Berlusconi refused to co-operate.
After the resignation of Romano Prodi as Italy's prime minister, the president asked the speaker of the Senate, Franco Marini, to form an interim government.
The council is supposed to convene a gathering of tribal leaders and other notables called a Loya Jirga, which in turn is to choose an interim government.
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Samina Ahmed, of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, thinks the army may well force him to resign, leading to the establishment of an interim government and then elections.
If it is accepted, President Rosen Plevneliev, a political ally of the prime minister, will have to appoint an interim government to rule until the next parliamentary elections.
The BBC's Alan Johnston in Rome says there has been speculation that an interim government of technocrats might be ushered in, a move that Mr Berlusconi clearly opposes.
At best, some soldiers might decide to replace General Abacha with an interim government that would try to pull the country together, draw up a new constitution and hold elections.
Some members are pushing for the appointment of an interim prime minister, others for an interim government based in opposition-held areas of northern Syria where people are living in desperate conditions.
Mr Speight wants the chiefs' grand council to meet, presumably believing that enough of its members will support his plea for an interim government, with himself as a member or possible leader.
Commodore Bainimarama says the army will stay in power until it has formed an interim government, but there will be no place in it for Mr Speight or members of his group.
Such a council, made up of former heads of state, could appoint an interim government, steer Nigeria towards elections later in the year and allow the armed forces to begin their retreat to barracks.
Coalition President Moaz al-Khatib is known to oppose the unilateral declaration of an interim government, fearing it would deepen divisions and impede any progress towards a transitional body which could bring about a transfer of power.
Jay Garner, who will serve as civil administrator in charge of reconstruction and humanitarian aid until an interim government can be formed, was briefly heckled after he toured a school in the port town of Umm Qasr.
Two previous attempts to form an interim government failed because of divisions within the group, the Syrian National Coalition, and some members said before the meeting Monday that it was unclear whether they would agree this time.
Over dinner, leaders were briefed about the possibility of a fresh legal challenge to Lisbon in the Czech Republic, currently run by an interim government of technocrats after the elected government of Mirek Topolanek fell earlier this year.
On Saturday Downing Street and the Ministry of Defence said no decision could be made until after Tuesday's meeting between Afghan leaders in Bonn, Germany, which would discuss the establishment of an interim government in the war-torn country.
Instead, Mr Deuba's fully legal election decision gives him a six-month breathing space as head of an interim government, free of political interference, even though his party has tried to make things difficult by expelling him for three years.
He was preceded by Prime Minister Lucas Papademos, a former banker and European Central Bank vice president, also an unelected politician who was sworn in as head of an interim government on November 11, 2011, after four days of political wrangling.
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