At the press conference, Kan also apologized for the long-standing policy of increasing reliance on nuclear power.
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Northern Ireland has its own social security legislation although there is a long-standing policy of parity in this area.
"It remains our long-standing policy to oppose activities by either party in the West Bank and Gaza that prejudge final status negotiations, " he said.
The coalition has blamed Mr. Bloomberg for discontinuing a long-standing policy of giving people in homeless shelters priority for public-housing programs in June 2005.
Last week, Israel's Supreme Court issued a ruling that calls into question the long-standing policy of locating Jewish communities in areas for strategic purposes.
The BSA, founded in 1910 and now serving about 2.66 million boys, is deliberating a possible shift in its long-standing policy of excluding gays as youth members or adult leaders.
However, U.S. officials briefed on the matter said the probe was closely held among officials at the FBI and Justice under a long-standing policy not to divulge information on continuing criminal investigations.
However, the EU statement noted that they "and other like-minded states have a long-standing policy, not limited to Kenya, to have only essential contact with indicted ICC suspects", the AFP news agency reports.
Mr O'Neill said the government's claim to have "a long-standing policy" not to provide funding was not true and it had in the past provided financial assistance, in exceptional circumstances, to prepare legal proceedings.
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The sale of the Mistrals is by far the most prominent example, but present-day Russia is far more open to foreign defense technology than was the Soviet Union which, as the articles state, had a standing policy of manufacturing all of its own weapons systems.
The party has four MPs but has a long-standing abstentionist policy.
The strategy known as "gun-walking", allowing suspected straw purchasers to leave gun stores with weapons with the intent of tracking them, was barred under a long-standing departmental policy.
Lowering the voting age for all elections is a long-standing SNP policy, and the party says it has been backed by organisations including Scotland's biggest teaching union, the EIS, as well as the Scottish TUC, National Union of Students and the Electoral Reform Society.
Earlier this month Preseli Pembrokeshire MP Mr Crabb also questioned a call by the Tory assembly group to make St David's Day a public holiday in Wales - a long standing Welsh Conservative policy.
Until deflationary Japan sees consumer prices rise by between 0% and 2% a year (with an unofficial aim of 1%), the long-standing near-zero policy rate will remain.
Labour MP David Winnick, a long-standing critic of UK policy in Afghanistan, described the conflict as an "unwinnable war" and said "the sooner British troops come home, the better".
In a statement, the Alliance Party said it was standing firmly behind its policy of flying the union flag at council headquarters on designated days and was called for the Northern Ireland Executive to legislate for this as a requirement for all councils.
Budget negotiators Tuesday suspended talks for a week, indicating that deep differences in policy issues were standing in the way of an agreement.
What is more, America's endorsement of the Vance-Owen plan would depart from long-standing U.S. policy to oppose the changing of borders by the use of force -- the practical effect of its parcelling out ethnic fiefdoms.
By failing at the onset of the crisis to indicate that certain limited exceptions would be made, the United States forfeited to the United Nations the task of defining the scope of this loophole, and weakened the weight of a long-standing U.S. policy to oppose the use of food as a weapon in settling disputes.
The Economic Policy Review Committee, a standing committee of Tynwald, is made up of Leonard Singer MHK, Howard Quayle MHK and Dudley Butt MLC.
Its common agricultural policy (CAP) is a standing insult to economic intelligence.
More importantly, she has performed abysmally when standing in for Mr Wahid in cabinet: her main policy goal, apparently, is to ensure that meetings end on time.
Before he came to office, Condoleezza Rice, who became the national security adviser, argued that the main focus of American foreign policy should be on relations with long-standing allies.
But he thought the key battle would be to overturn the acquis, the long-standing doctrine that once the EU acquired competence over a policy area, it was never relinquished.
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Consumer groups have expressed concern that Sir John's lack of experience in consumer affairs and food policy could hinder the agency's effectiveness in standing up for the public.
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