The Good Friday Agreement and the 1998 Northern Ireland Act give the power to call a border poll to the secretary of state (even though both the Northern Ireland secretary at the time of the agreement and the current incumbent were and are women, both documents refer to the secretary as "him").
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It's hard to overlook the timing of the agreement that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed in Poland today.
The final word and reference will still be resolution No. 687 with its obligations on both the Secretary General and Iraq, along will the code of conduct agreed upon in the agreement signed by the Secretary-General in New York on 16th September 2002, and the press statement of Hans Blix and (Mohamed) ElBaradei in Vienna ...
Kerry's visit to Beijing has produced some measure of agreement with the secretary of state claiming that China is "very serious" about the denuclearisation on the peninsula.
The full text of the agreement between the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Iraq's deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz.
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan announced the agreement yesterday just hours after Ban Ki-moon, Mr. Annan's successor, met with negotiators for both sides.
In other words, President Bush risks having a unilateral decision to reduce American strategic nuclear forces by two-thirds over the next decade morphed by his Secretary of State into a binding bilateral agreement, replete with verification mechanisms carried forward from earlier arms control treaties.
MPs, who voted by a majority of more than 300 to approve the bill, were told by Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson that the Good Friday Agreement was the nearest thing to a "perfect settlement", but that reimposing direct rule from London might be the only way to save it.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has brokered an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians on border crossings in and out of the Gaza Strip.
However, if there's clear evidence that a majority of people in Northern Ireland want to leave the UK and join a united Ireland, then the agreement places a duty on the secretary of state who "shall" arrange a referendum.
BBC: United Ireland border poll call: diversions and u-turns
In her debut speech to the European Parliament since her country took on the rotating presidency of the Council of Ministers, Hungarian State Secretary for European Affairs Eniko Gyori said the agreement could help tackle illegal cross-border trade and improve co-operation on environmental issues.
Following two appeals, communities secretary Eric Pickles backed the development, subject to agreement of developers' financial contributions.
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But NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana, who negotiated the agreement, praised Yeltsin's vision.
The UN is the only venue capable of executing such an agreement, argued Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, during an afternoon press conference on the last day of negotiations in Bangkok.
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But it was further cast into doubt on Sunday by US Secretary of State Colin Powell, who said the nuclear agreement had been effectively "nullified".
Speaking earlier at the summit, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he believed an agreement was in sight, with recent moves by some countries a positive step to cutting emissions.
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander said the in-principle agreement to devolve capital borrowing powers was "an important step forward".
But local Unison secretary Gray Allan said the conditions had been imposed without union agreement by effectively dismissing workers and employing them under new contracts.
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Mr. COHEN: I think that what is very significant about this agreement is that it was the urgency of the secretary of State getting involved.
"There is now a shadow cast over an important manifesto commitment and something which was in the coalition agreement, " deputy leader and shadow international development secretary Harriet Harman told the BBC.
President Barack Obama and Mr. Karzai discussed the progress in the partnership agreement in a videoconference on Thursday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said.
Rwanda Football Association assistant secretary general, Jules Kalisa, to BBC Sport website that an agreement had been with France Sport, a company which owns sports facilities in Marseille.
But Wendy Sherman, the US Under Secretary for Political affairs, told the Brussels Forum that the Geneva agreement "is still a basis for reaching a solution" to the conflict.
Speaking on behalf of the Liberal Democrats, William Powell AM acknowledged the central role played by the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in negotiating the UN agreement.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who spoke with Mr. Karzai about the agreement on Saturday, welcomed what he called the Afghan leader's "commitment that the transfer will be carried out in a way that ensures the safety of the Afghan people and coalition forces by keeping dangerous individuals detained, " Pentagon spokesman George Little said.
New parliamentary procedures to enable the local government secretary to put a project of national significance to parliament for debate and agreement on the broad principles ahead of a more detailed inquiry.
As she arrived for Thursday's meeting in Brussels, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said it would take time to make an agreement with the EU that did not shut out some NATO allies.
Sinn Fein for its part believes that it's carried out it's obligations under the Good Friday agreement and is angered at what it sees as a British Secretary of State acting in collusion with a unionist party.
Using the pretext of the years' end expiration of the U.S.-Soviet START Treaty, the President has dispatched an inveterate denuclearizer, Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller, to negotiate in haste a new bilateral agreement with the Russians.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel spoke with Afghan President Hamid Karzai Saturday as officials finalized the agreement after days of intense negotiations.
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