Three times premier and minister of war, he signed the Munich pact with British prime minister Chamberlain which gave Hitler posession of the Sudetenland.
The main contenders are Bernard Landry, Quebec's deputy premier and finance minister, and Pauline Marois, the province's health minister.
The Monday after Mahathir spoke, it took heavy buying by state-run investment funds -- and deft explaining by Deputy Premier and Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim -- to keep the Kuala Lumpur market afloat.
The list of casualties reads like a Who's Who of Mahathir backers: the PM's close friend and former finance minister Daim Zainuddin, former agriculture minister Sanusi Junid, the ex-deputy premier Ghafar Baba, former chief minister of Malacca Rahim Tamby Chik, current deputy ministers Khalid Yunus and Railey Jeffrey, and the party's veteran information chief Hussein Ahmad.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Spanish premier Jose Maria Aznar were present, as were Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt of Belgium, which currently holds the European Union presidency, European Union foreign and security policy chief Javier Solana and Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok.
In addition to our close allies who did so much to advance this effort, I worked throughout the day with Prime Minister Meles of Ethiopia, who was representing Africa, as well as Premier Wen of China, Prime Minister Singh of India, President Lula of Brazil, and President Zuma of South Africa, to achieve what I believe will be an important milestone.
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Lady Thatcher, Britain's first female premier, was Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990 and won three successive general elections.
The ones that we anticipate -- the leaders that we anticipate the President meeting on the margins right now are Premier Wen of China, Prime Minister Noda of Japan -- so nothing on Russia.
Wen Jiabo, who currently oversees financial matters as a vice-premier, is expected to become prime minister.
Mr Salmond's office explained this by saying the premier's meeting with the first minister was a simply a "courtesy" call.
New South Wales Premier Morris Iemma has written to Prime Minister Tony Blair requesting intelligence on "known sporting hooligans" before the Ashes.
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"This is an historic moment and I would ask all the communities in Northern Ireland to seize this opportunity for peace, " Bush told reporters ahead of a working luncheon with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Premier Bertie Ahern near Belfast.
Yet the Canadians have pushed hard for Keystone approval, bringing in both Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Alberta Premier Alison Redford to praise the pipeline and hosting the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers while in town to brief Congress on the merits of the pipeline.
His decision to be inclusive in the selection of his cabinet is also popular, starting with his choice for premier, Tang Fei, who was defense minister in the outgoing administration.
Deve Gowda, a former chief minister of southern Karnataka state, became premier at the head of a 13-party coalition -- considered the first genuinely federal government in the country.
Wilson, who had more formal education than any previous U.S. president, failed to understand how determined British Prime Minister David Lloyd-George and French Premier Georges Clemenceau were to avenge their grievances against Germany.
Its premier, Hernus Kriel, once served as police minister but came to shun the national arena in order to build support among the province's minority white population and the Coloured (mixed-race) voters who make up more than half its electorate.
The Uruguay star, who has scored 23 goals in the English Premier League, has even drawn criticism from British Prime Minister David Cameron.
During an unplanned stopover in London last week, Chinese Vice Premier Qian Qichen had a brief meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Italian stocks have fallen, reacting to the news that Prime Minister Mario Monti plans to resign and former premier Silvio Berlusconi is to run for office again.
That has allowed Mr Landry, who was finance minister from 1996 until he took over as premier in 2001, to present himself as a cautious and competent administrator.
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In 1990, Nawaz Sharif was sworn in as Pakistan's new prime minister amid charges of vote-rigging from ousted premier Benazir Bhutto.
Earlier in the day, City agreed to a takeover by the United Arab Emirates business group, a deal that will end former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's brief ownership of the Premier League club.
Hans Eichel, a former premier of the state of Hesse, became Germany's finance minister after Oskar Lafontaine resigned.
Among the other guests was the UAE's deputy prime minister, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, owner of Premier League football club Manchester City.
If Mr Fischer's support for that line could be proved, said Edmund Stoiber, Bavaria's powerful premier, then he was no longer acceptable as Germany's foreign minister.
On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that while Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is in Washington next week, and before the premier has a chance to give his scheduled address to a joint session of Congress, Obama will give a new speech to the Arab world.
The new premier lacks foreign policy experience, but the summit is in the capable hands of Foreign Minister Kono, who is an old hand at such things.
Spain's prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, met Juan Jose Ibarretxe, would-be separatist premier of the country's Basque region .
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