Similarly, the goal of letting some new members take part in the 2004 elections was stated at the end of the Nice summit in December.
Earlier this month, the company reported a sharp fall in sales for the Christmas period, with like-for-like sales, which strip out the effect of shop closures, down by 8.1% in the five weeks to the end of December.
Speaking to the BBC's Russian service, unnamed sources in the non-governmental organisations said six Russian staff members and their families had arrived in Lithuania at the end of December or early in January on tourist visas.
The country's growth rate dipped to 4.5% in the three months to end of December, the weakest pace in 15 quarters.
On the economic front, U.S. consumers felt worse about the economy in mid-January than at the end of December, bucking economists' projections for a rebound in sentiment, according to the Thomson Reuters and University of Michigan's consumer-sentiment index.
Japan's economy contracted for the third straight quarter in the three months to end of December, underlining the challenges the new government faces in reviving growth.
The economy grew by 1.5% in the three months to the end of December, from a year earlier.
The carmaker said its sales to China dipped 68% in the three months to the end of December, from a year earlier.
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We will in fact, as I said at the outset, draw down our military forces by the end of December in agreement with the so-called SOFA that was signed some years ago.
Given the 8, 5% rise in the white metal since end of December, several market watchers said a pullback is likely, but that the bullish backdrop for platinum makes a drop in price a buying opportunity.
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The Maya are well-known for their complex calendar system, which some say predicts the end of the world in December 2012 (an interpretation that experts on the civilization call absurd).
In addition, at the end of December, it inaugurated a short pipeline from Turkmenistan to Iran, to import gas for Iran's domestic use.
But perhaps the thorniest task for Aznar is sorting out the mess that was left at the end of the Laeken summit in December.
Czinger plans to sell 14, 000 Codas in the 13 months between when the car first goes on sale in December of this year and the end of 2011.
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Preliminary data computed from the Palmer Drought Severity Index shows that 54.6 percent of the contiguous 48 states was in drought at the end of June, the highest percentage since December 1956, and the sixth-highest peak percentage on record.
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Sales, excluding newly opened stores, were down 3.8% in the nine weeks to the end of December.
Strong overall performance in the retail market through the end of December may have been just the confirmation the industry needed for recovery to be re-engaged, he said.
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So when the Union's leaders assemble yet again, in December in Helsinki to mark the end of the Finnish presidency, do not be surprised if their smiles look just a little strained.
The fashion retailer reported 3.2% losses in like-for-like sales in the five months up to the end of December.
It was gray, blue-gray outside the kind of light you get only at the end of November, the beginning of December, at around three or half past in the afternoon, when Berlin might as well be in Finland.
One of Baron's main achievements has been the redevelopment of the southern end of Twickenham which will be completed in December 2009.
The payroll tax reduction introduced in December 2010 is scheduled to expire at the end of this year as is the 100% expensing of capital investments for tax purposes and the extension of unemployment benefits.
The quietly elegant 424-room Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas, which is tucked away on the upper floors of the Mandalay Bay complex on the southern end of the Strip, will complete a total re-do of all its rooms in December, and has remained open for the duration of its renovations.
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The 56-year-old Wilson signed a contract extension in December and will be paid through the end of next season.
It logged a negative 7.5% return in 2001 and was underfunded by 13% as of December, versus being overfunded by 6% at the end of 2000 and 24% in 1999.
This week, on Larry King Live, Schlessinger announced that she would be leaving radio at the end of her contract in December of this year.
However, the full effects of influenza on the health service are not normally felt until a little later in the year, around the beginning of December, and then last until the end of January.
The Storage Post acquisition, announced in late December, is expected to be completed by the end of March.
Alonso, 27, committed to Renault until the end of the 2010 season in December.
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