BAE's board is planning to make its decision tomorrow morning, having reviewed tonight's inter-governmental talks.
The debate is due to climax in a treaty-changing Inter-governmental Conference (IGC) in 2004.
On Friday of this week, there will be the inaugural meeting of the British-Irish council and Inter-governmental Conference.
The inter-governmental agreement largely codified much of what had been previously agreed.
In April China defended itself (another first) at the Mekong River Commission, the inter-governmental body supposed to resolve disputes.
Almost everybody agrees that the inter-governmental approach works badly for drawing up legislation.
The union will thus continue as a mainly inter-governmental organisation with supranational attributes, rather than turning into a full federation.
We do not need to be apologetic about wanting some European activities to remain subject to inter-governmental co-operation and consensus.
Good knowledge of the Pacific sub-region and of the working methods of the UN system or other inter-governmental organizations would be an advantage.
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The attraction of the inter-governmental route is speed, but it would increase the risk of a two- or even three-speed Europe.
For now, the only inter-governmental body with a say over the region is the Arctic Council: its mandate is narrowly environmental.
Inter-governmental negotiations with China have yet to produce an agreement on its supply of power for the early years of production.
The legitimacy and logistics of an independence vote were political, not legal questions, said Joseph Facal, Quebec's minister for inter-governmental affairs.
Europe is currently engaged in a wide-ranging debate about the future of the union leading up to the inter-governmental conference in 2004.
Rhetoric about political union does not need to be taken seriously, as the inter-governmental conferences of 1985, 1992 and 1997 have shown.
The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development is the forum for peacemaking in Sudan, and is so far doing its work through diplomacy alone.
China and Singapore officially agreed to cooperate in developing the China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park as a mutually beneficial, inter-governmental project in February 1994.
Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid met Irish Foreign Minister Brian Cowen at an Anglo-Irish Inter-governmental conference at Hillsborough Castle, County Down on Tuesday.
It was sidestepped by a deal to draw up an inter-governmental agreement outside the EU treaties (messier in legal terms, but not impossible).
The one big change that lawyers think might be achievable without referendums is creating a foreign minister, which could be done by inter-governmental agreement.
As a Principal Lead Author with the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, he shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former US Vice-President Al Gore.
The one big change that lawyers think might be achievable without referendums is creating an EU foreign minister, which could be done by inter-governmental agreement.
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Jacques Delors, the then commission president, predicted at the time that the inter-governmental structure would prove unsatisfactory in practice, and so it has turned out.
So, in a very European way, discussions have started on how to circumvent treaty change, perhaps by an inter-governmental pact between some or all eurozone countries.
There were further echoes of Mr Major when Mr Blair discussed the inter-governmental conference that is preparing a new treaty to be signed in Amsterdam in mid-June.
Bologna is neither an inter-governmental treaty nor an EU law.
The world had already been witnessing wild weather for years, but in 2001, scientists under the UN's Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, formed a consensus on the causes.
This is particularly important in intra- and inter-governmental negotiations because even a hint of bad faith can cause backlash from your bargaining partners and instability in global economic markets.
Mr Trimble has pounced on the fact that the framework's Anglo-Irish inter-governmental council now has added Scottish and Welsh elements, as well as representatives from the new Northern Ireland assembly.
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