Based at Tres Esquinas, 145 kilometres (90 miles) from Puerto Asis, the prime task of these battalions, officials say, is to secure Putumayo, to enable police to attack its drug-processing laboratories and intensify their efforts to wipe out its coca plantations by spraying them with herbicides.
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Friday evening, President Traian Basescu appointed Social Democrat leader Victor Ponta as the new prime minister with the task of forming a new government.
"It must now be the most important task of Prime Minister Samaras' new government to swiftly and immediately implement the agreed program without hesitation or asking, yet again, what the others could do in addition for Greece, " German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was quoted as saying.
The prime minister said an emergency task force had been activated, and he appealed for calm.
But the setting belies the ambition of the task that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has set for himself and his guests.
Already the prime minister faces a tough task just to quell the disquiet among members of his own Likud-Yisrael Beitenu alliance, which gave up key cabinet posts to Mr Lapid.
The prime minister immediately despatched a naval task force and the islands were retaken on 14 June when the Argentine forces surrendered.
His position highlights the delicate task that the new prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), has in convincing the public that Japan should be the tenth country to join the TPP talks.
British Prime Minister David Cameron announced a new task force late Saturday on "tackling" extremism and radicalization.
On Monday, the British government announced that the Prime Minister David Cameron will lead a task force to tackle extremism -- a result of the Rigby killing.
In India, alarmed by evidence that even fewer tigers survive in the wild than had been thought, the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, appointed a task-force in March to consider what to do.
Their task, says Barham Salih, the prime minister of Mr Talabani's regional government in Sulaymaniyah, is twofold.
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That distrust is also shared by many in Europe and the prime minister faced the daunting - some say impossible - task of trying to bridge the gap between the views of 'old Europe', led by France and Germany, and the unflinching position of the American administration.
Both leaders will have to spend the next few weeks convincing their domestic audiences that they have gained and not yielded to the other - a task perhaps a little easier for the recently re-elected Indian prime minister than for his Pakistani counterpart, who is politically on shakier ground.
Ed Miliband's main task in his speech was to change perceptions and be seen as a future prime minister.
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said he was confident that Mr Reid would continue to perform the task of making assessments of the terrorist ceasefires "in the round and in accordance with the relevant statutory requirement".
The huge task of creating it falls to Yukio Hatoyama, whom the Diet will appoint as prime minister on September 16th.
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Recalling his earliest memory of the UK's first female prime minister, Mr Cameron spoke of her "brave and resolute" decision to send a task force to retake the Falkland Islands in 1982 - when he was a teenager.
After the Olympics, Prime Minister David Cameron appointed Lord Coe the UK's "legacy ambassador", with the task of promoting businesses overseas.
The latest politician to take over the thankless task of coalition-building is Bulent Ecevit, a veteran leftist leader, who was named temporary prime minister on December 2nd.
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