Chile, a Mercosur associate since last year, had been expected to move soon to full membership.
The owners gathered for an important meeting in Atlanta to update the full membership and discuss strategy.
Croatia began full membership talks in October (at the same time as Turkey).
The US opposes the Palestinian bid for full membership of the United Nations.
Many influential politicians in France, Germany, Austria and some other EU countries are opposed to granting Turkey full membership.
NATO, through the Partnership for Peace program, brought Romania successfully to full membership.
The tariff rise makes it harder for Chile to move from its present associate status to full membership of Mercosur.
Some senior politicians in the EU want Turkey to have a partnership deal with the EU, rather than full membership.
In late October champagne was on offer at Milan and Rome airports to mark the country's full membership of Schengen.
The International Olympic Committee's executive board voted to include both two months ago and the full membership confirmed the decision on Friday.
Having announced last year that it would seek full membership, in November it suddenly began bilateral free-trade talks with the United States.
In Germany, the opposition Christian Democrats are against full membership for Turkey, although they will not block talks once they have begun.
The fastest-growing part of South America is the free-trading Pacific countries (Chile, Colombia, and Peru), which have shunned full membership of Mercosur.
Many see compliance with the anti-bribery convention as a big test of Russia's willingness to meet the still broader demands of full membership.
And she said Germany wanted strong ties with Turkey - having in the past argued against Turkey's full membership of the European Union.
The European Union's 25 members failed to agree on a common stance towards Turkey , which expects to start full membership talks in October.
He was also a probationary member of Kensington and Chelsea Pistol Club, although the club rejected his application for full membership a month after he began attending.
EU's powers of persuasion rest on the lure of full membership.
Myanmar, which has been a "guest" for the past two years, gains official standing this year and seems on course for full membership by 2000.
Myanmar will attend the annual ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting July 20 for the first time as an official observer, one step away from full membership.
Now several countries are threatening to defer Italy's full membership of Schengen, to maintain their border controls despite it, or even to scrap Schengen altogether.
Full membership will not change the applicant countries' economic prospects immediately.
The Eurosceptics argue that Iceland already gets most of the benefits of full membership through existing free trade arrangements with the EU and by being part the Schengen visa-free travel zone.
If the appeal is accepted, the court will decide whether the original three judges will rehear the case or if the full membership of the court will do so.
We hope it will achieve full membership very soon.
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They have applied for full membership of Unesco - the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation - before but are now using a different tactic of the draft resolution, Unesco diplomats say.
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and a number of other senior politicians in the EU want Turkey to have a partnership deal with the EU, rather than full membership.
The task force began its work with a meeting of the full membership to develop a common understanding of the law, project goals, scope, roles and responsibilities, resource requirements, strategy, timeline, and deliverables.
As two decades of peace talks have failed to secure a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian officials insist the time is right to ask the UN to grant full membership to an independent state of Palestine.
For example, it is neither right nor necessary to claim that the integrity of the single market, or full membership of the European Union requires the working hours of British hospital doctors to be set in Brussels irrespective of the views of British parliamentarians and practitioners.
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